steam
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From Old English stēam
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[edit] Noun
steam (uncountable)
- The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase.
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for motive power.
- After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam.
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam.
- A steam-powered vehicle.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle
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- (a steam-powered vehicle): steamer
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terms derived from steam (noun)
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water vapor
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water vapor used for heating or as source of kinetic energy
energy
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[edit] Verb
steam (third-person singular simple present steams, present participle steaming, simple past and past participle steamed)
- (cooking, transitive) To cook with steam
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
- (intransitive) To be covered with condensed water vapor.
- With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- We steamed around the Mediterranean.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, BBC:
- That was the hard work largely done as the Ivorian waited for Malouda to steam into the box before releasing a simple crossed pass which the Frenchman side-footed home with aplomb.
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- See also Wikisaurus:cook
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cooking: to cook with steam
to produce or vent steam
to become angry
to be covered with condensed water vapor
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steam (not comparable)
- Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
- 1989, “Despite the era's technological marvels, 'wireless' is still magic”, Toronto Star:
- 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"
- 2000 January 10, Bill Pannifer, “Sore eyes”, The Independent:
- Unlike the Web, old-fashioned steam television must be viewed in sequence in order to pick out those rare bits of useful information.
- 2002 September 5, Alex Kirby, “Summit diary: Aftermath”, BBC News:
- In the old days of steam journalism, after cleft sticks had been phased out but before the advent of e-mail, there used to be a fairly sure-fire way of getting your story to the news desk.
- 2004 April 2, “'I'ma player. It's time to move on'”, Telegraph.co.uk:
- Fox has been at Capital since 1988, where he lurks a little in the shadow of Chris Tarrant, the radio station's monolithic star who has helmed the plum breakfast show slot since the steam radio dawn of time.
- 1989, “Despite the era's technological marvels, 'wireless' is still magic”, Toronto Star:
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[edit] Old English
[edit] Etymology
Proto-Germanic *staumaz, compare also Dutch stoom
[edit] Noun
stēam m.
- steam (water vapor)
[edit] West Frisian
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steam c.
