English
Steam rising from the street grates. (1, 2)
Etymology
From Middle English steem , stem , from Old English stēam ( “ steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *staumaz ( “ steam, vapour, breath ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- ( “ to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke ” ) . Cognate with Scots stem , steam ( “ steam ” ) , West Frisian steam ( “ steam, vapour ” ) , Dutch stoom ( “ steam, vapour ” ) , Low German stom ( “ steam ” ) , Swedish dialectal stimma ( “ steam, fog ” ) , Latin fūmus ( “ smoke, steam ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
steam (usually uncountable , plural steams )
The vapor formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase .
Pressurized water vapour used for heating , cooking , or to provide mechanical energy .
The act of cooking by steaming .
Give the carrots a ten-minute steam .
( figuratively ) Internal energy for motive power .
After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam .
1927 , Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Ladies and Gentlemen (page 129)
Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em.
( 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.
( obsolete ) Any exhalation .
1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton ], edited by H[enry] Lawes , A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: [ … ] [Comus ], London: [ … ] [Augustine Matthews ] for Hvmphrey Robinson , [ … ] , published 1637 , →OCLC ; reprinted as Comus: [ … ] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company , 1903 , →OCLC :a steam of rich, distilled perfumes
( fencing ) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
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Translations
water vapor
Abkhaz: афақь ( afakʲ )
Adyghe: пахъэ ( paχɛ ) , гъоз ( ğʷoz )
Afrikaans: wasem
Albanian: avull (sq) m , vogë m
Arabic: بُخَار (ar) m ( buḵār )
Aragonese: vabor , vaporada f
Armenian: գոլորշի (hy) ( golorši ) , շոգի (hy) ( šogi )
Aromanian: abur m
Assamese: ভাপ ( bhap )
Asturian: vapor (ast) m
Azerbaijani: buxar (az) , buğ (az)
Bashkir: быу ( bıw ) , боҫ ( boś )
Belarusian: па́ра f ( pára ) , пар m ( par )
Bengali: বাষ্প ( baśpo ) , ভাপ ( bhap ) , ধূম ( dhum )
Bhojpuri: भाप f ( bhāp )
Brunei Malay: wap
Bulgarian: па́ра (bg) f ( pára )
Burmese: ရေငွေ့ (my) ( re-ngwe. ) , အငွေ့ (my) ( a.ngwe. )
Cahuarano: mululish
Catalan: vapor (ca) m
Central Melanau: kauih
Cherokee: ᎠᏥᎸ ᎦᏌᏙᏯᏍᎩ ( atsilv gasadoyasgi )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 蒸汽 ( zing1 hei3 ) , 水蒸氣 / 水蒸气 ( seoi2 zing1 hei3 )
Dungan: җынчи ( žɨnči )
Mandarin: 蒸汽 (zh) ( zhēngqì ) , 水蒸氣 / 水蒸气 (zh) ( shuǐzhēngqì ) , 水蒸气 (zh) ( shuǐzhēngqì )
Min Nan: 蒸汽 ( cheng-khì ) , 水蒸氣 / 水蒸气 ( chúi-cheng-khì )
Chuvash: пӑс ( păs )
Classical Nahuatl: āpōctli
Czech: pára (cs) f
Danish: damp (da) c
Dongxiang: ho
Doteli: वाफ ( wāph )
Dupaningan Agta: asngaw
Dutch: stoom (nl) m , kwalm (nl) m
Elfdalian: aungga f
Esperanto: vaporo (eo)
Estonian: aur (et)
Faroese: guva f , dampur m
Finnish: vesihöyry (fi) , höyry (fi)
French: vapeur d’eau (fr) f , vapeur (fr) f
Galician: vapor m , bafo (gl) m
Gamilaraay: buuga
Georgian: ორთქლი ( ortkli )
German: Wasserdampf (de) m , Dampf (de) m
Greek: υδρατμός (el) m ( ydratmós ) , ατμός (el) m ( atmós )
Ancient: ἀτμός m ( atmós ) , ἀτμίς f ( atmís )
Greenlandic: aalaq
Gujarati: વરાળ (gu) f ( varāḷ )
Haitian Creole: vapè
Hawaiian: māhu
Hebrew: אֵד (he) m ( ed ) , קִיטוֹר (he) m ( kitór ) , הֶבֶל (he) m ( hével )
Hindi: भाप (hi) f ( bhāp ) , वाष्प (hi) m ( vāṣp )
Hungarian: pára (hu) , gőz (hu)
Icelandic: gufa (is) f , eimur (is) m
Ido: vaporo (io)
Ilocano: asok
Indonesian: kukus (id) , uap (id)
Irish: gal uisce f , toit (ga) f
Italian: vapore (it) m
Japanese: 湯気 (ja) ( ゆげ, yuge ) , 蒸気 (ja) ( じょうき, jōki ) , ( physics, emphasising vapored water ) 水蒸気 (ja) ( すいじょうき, suijōki )
Javanese: uwab (jv) , kukus (jv) , uap
Kabardian: бахъэ ( baχɛ )
Kannada: ಆವರಿ (kn) ( āvari )
Karakhanid: بُو ( bū )
Karelian: löyly , höyry
Kazakh: бу ( bu )
Khmer: ចំហាយ (km) ( jɑmhaay )
Korean: 김 (ko) ( gim ) , 증기(蒸氣) (ko) ( jeunggi )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bixar (ku) f
Kwaza: hãnũnũ
Kyrgyz: буу (ky) ( buu ) , пар ( par )
Lakota: pʼó
Lao: ອາຍນ້ຳ (lo) ( ʼāi nam )
Latgalian: suts
Latin: vapor m
Latvian: tvaiks m , garaiņi pl
Lezgi: бугъ ( buġ )
Limburgish: stoum (li) m
Limos Kalinga: angiw
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Lithuanian: garas m
Ludian: löül
Luxembourgish: Damp m
Macedonian: пареа f ( parea )
Malay: wap , stim (ms)
Maltese: fwar m , stim m
Manx: gaal f
Maori: mamaoa , koromamahu , koromamao , pūmāhu
Mapudungun: wvwan
Marathi: वाफ f ( vāph )
Mongolian: уур (mn) ( uur )
Navajo: siil
Nepali: वाफ ( wāph )
Nogai: був ( buv )
Northern Sami: lievla
Norwegian:
Bokmål: damp (no) m
Nynorsk: damp m
Occitan: vapor (oc) f
Old English: stēam m
Old Norse: gufa f
Oromo: hurka
Oroqen: ʃəbgin
Ottoman Turkish: بوغو ( buğu )
Pashto: بخار (ps) m ( boxãr )
Persian: بخار (fa) ( boxâr ) , وشم (fa) ( vašm ) , بخار آب ( boxâr-e âb )
Plautdietsch: Donst m
Polish: para wodna f
Portuguese: vapor (pt) m
Punjabi: ਭਾਫ f ( bhāph )
Quechua: waksi
Rohingya: báb
Romanian: abur (ro) m
Romansch: vapur m
Russian: пар (ru) m ( par )
Sanskrit: वाष्प (sa) m ( vāṣpa )
Saterland Frisian: Stoame f
Scottish Gaelic: toit f , smùid f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: па̏ра f
Roman: pȁra (sh) f
Sicilian: vapuri (scn) m
Sindhi: बा॒फ
Slovak: para (sk) f
Slovene: para (sl) f
Somali: uumi
Southern Altai: буу ( buu )
Spanish: vapor (es) m
Sranan Tongo: dampu
Sundanese: saab , ᮅᮃᮕ᮪ ( uap )
Swahili: mvuke (sw) class 3 /4
Swazi: simoko class 7 /8
Swedish: ånga (sv) c
Tabasaran: бугъ ( buġ )
Tagalog: tubingaw
Tajik: бухор ( buxor ) , буғ ( buġ )
Tamil: நீராவி (ta) ( nīrāvi )
Taos: p’ȍxúone
Tedim Chin: khu , tuikhu
Telugu: ఆవిరి (te) ( āviri ) , నీటి ఆవిరి ( nīṭi āviri )
Tetum: suar
Thai: ไอน้ำ ( ai-náam )
Tibetan: རླངས་པ ( rlangs pa )
Tiwi: mirawini m
Tundra Nenets: сюн ( śɯn )
Turkish: buhar (tr) , buğu (tr) , islim (tr) , istim (tr)
Turkmen: bug (tk)
Tuvaluan: afusaga
Ukrainian: па́ра f ( pára ) , пар m ( par )
Urdu: بھاپ f ( bhāp )
Uyghur: پار ( par )
Uzbek: bugʻ (uz) , par (uz)
Veps: löun , puru
Vietnamese: hơi (vi) , hơi nước
Vilamovian: domf m
Votic: löülü
Welsh: ager m , anwedd m , stêm m
West Frisian: steam c
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Yiddish: פּאַרע f ( pare )
Yucatec Maya: ooxol
Zazaki: pığ , bığ , buhar , bux
Zou: hu
steam-powered vehicle
— see steamer
travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle
fencing without the use of any electric equipment
Translations to be checked
Verb
steam (third-person singular simple present steams , present participle steaming , simple past and past participle steamed )
( cooking , transitive ) To cook with steam.
The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them.
( transitive ) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
to steam wood or cloth
( intransitive ) To produce or vent steam.
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1961 February, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated , page 110 :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.
( intransitive ) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
Our breath steamed in the cold winter air.
( 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.
The ship steamed out of the harbour.
( 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”, in BBC [1] :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.
( obsolete ) To exhale .
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
cooking: to cook with steam
to be covered with condensed water vapor
to travel by means of steam power
to move with great or excessive purposefulness
Translations to be checked
Adjective
steam (not comparable )
Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
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2000 January 10, Bill Pannifer, “Sore eyes”, in 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”, in 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'”, in 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.
Anagrams
AEMTs , MTase , Mesta , Satem , a-stem , mates , matse , matés , meats , metas , satem , stame , tames , teams
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *staumaz , compare also Dutch stoom .
Pronunciation
Noun
stēam m
steam (water vapor)
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian [Term?] , from Proto-Germanic *staumaz .
Noun
steam c (no plural )
steam
Synonym: stoom
Further reading
“stoom ”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011