steamnoun/stiːm/

• 1

  The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).

• 2

  The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.

• 3

  The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.

• 4

  Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.

• 5

  The act of cooking by steaming.

  • Give the carrots a ten-minute steam.
• 6

  Internal energy for progress or motive power.

  • After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam.
  • Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em.
• 7

  Pent-up anger.

  • Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam.
• 8

  A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.

  • Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and jettisoning the features that have given trouble, in particular the chain-driven valve-motion, should give the Southern a supply of highly-competent machines able to last out the remaining life of steam on the S.R.
  • Steam also takes charge of South Eastern (former P.L.M.) trains from Paris to Marseilles and the Riviera from Lyons onwards, and of Western Region trains from Le Mans onwards, as also between Paris and Dieppe and Le Havre.

steamverb/stiːm/

• 1

  cookingfoodlifestyleTo cook with steam.

  • The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them.
• 2

  To be cooked with steam.

  • The artichokes are steaming in the pot.
  • I'm steaming in this coat.
• 3

  To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.

  • to steam wood or cloth
• 4

  To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.

  • Until recently the mainstay of the line were four 2-8-2 + 2-8-2 Garratts, built for its opening. One is still steamed regularly, and there is no intention of breaking up the others, but the line has now been dieselised.
  • "We will give 198 a full exam. Then steam her, and operate her for the rest of the season.
• 5

  To produce or vent steam.

  • See, ſee, my Brother's Ghoſt hangs hovering there, / O're his vvarm Blood, that ſteems into the Air, / Revenge, Revenge it cries.
  • I found that the Chapelon steamed almost too freely, because on a strange locomotive and road one usually tends to overfire a little through a natural lack of confidence.
• 6

  To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.

  • Our breath steamed in the cold winter air.
  • [T]he diſſolved Amber vvas plainly diſcernable ſvvimming like a thin film upon the ſurface of the Liquor, vvhence little by little it ſteamed avvay into the air.
• 7

  To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.

• 8

  To make angry.

  • It really steams me to see her treat him like that.

steamadj/stiːm/

• 1

  Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.

  • Tom Earle, a CBC radio veteran now compiling audio archives in Ottawa, used to refer to the medium in which he worked as "steam radio"
  • Unlike the Web, old-fashioned steam television must be viewed in sequence in order to pick out those rare bits of useful information.

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