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noun

water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.

water changed to this form by boiling, extensively used for the generation of mechanical power, for heating purposes, etc.

the mist formed when the gas or vapor from boiling water condenses in the air.

an exhalation of a vapor or mist.

Informal. power or energy.

verb (used without object)

to emit or give off steam or vapor.

to rise or pass off in the form of steam or vapor.

to become covered with condensed steam, as a window or other surface (often followed by up).

to generate or produce steam, as in a boiler.

10.

to move or travel by the agency of steam.

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11.

to move rapidly or evenly: He steamed out of the room.

12.

Informal. to be angry or show anger.

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verb (used with object)

13.

to expose to or treat with steam, as in order to heat, cook, soften, renovate, or the like.

14.

to emit or exhale (steam or vapor).

15.

Slang. to cause to become irked or angry (often followed by up).

16.

to convey by the agency of steam: to steam the ship safely into port.

adjective

17.

heated by or heating with steam: a steam radiator.

18.

propelled by or propelling with a steam engine.

19.

operated by steam.

20.

conducting steam: a steam line.

21.

bathed with or affected by steam.

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22.

of or pertaining to steam.

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Idiom

23.

blow/let off steam, Informal. to give vent to one's repressed emotions, especially by talking or behaving in an unrestrained manner: Don't take her remarks too seriously—she was just blowing off steam.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English steme, Old English stēam; cognate with Dutch stoom

Related forms

steam·less, adjective

out·steam, verb (used with object)

pre·steam, adjective, verb (used with object)

un·steamed, adjective

un·steam·ing, adjective

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Example Sentences

Years and years ago, steam locomotives built in this area were exported to railroads around the world.

The explosion damaged both the backup boiler and the main boiler, particularly a valve on the main steam line.

The region's recovery will lose steam next year no matter what happens elsewhere.

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Years and years ago, steam locomotives built in this area were exported to railroads around the world.

The explosion damaged both the backup boiler and the main boiler, particularly a valve on the main steam line.

The region's recovery will lose steam next year no matter what happens elsewhere.

As they use only water to disinfect, steam cleaners release no toxic chemicals into the home and environment.

These are then captured to drive a steam generator hooked into the bases centralized heating and cooling systems.

Not a quaint steam operation for summer tourists, but a real freight line.

Serve the salmon with sushi rice if you have time, or simply steam some fragrant jasmine rice.

When waters are still warm, but morning air is growing frigid, little tornadoes of steam can form on lake surfaces.

Steam the carrots for five minutes or until barely tender.

The heat may be transmitted from the furnace to the radiator with either steam or hot water.

Organizational culture is successful when complaints are allowed adequately to vent steam.

It then gets even hotter even quicker, and bits of it will start to melt and react with the steam.

Hot springs and steam jets, softening the rock, helped the river to carve the canyon.

Steam and a gas would likely mix well and would be seperatable by a gravity or centrifuge system.

The plume appears to be a combination of brown ash and white steam.

Just brown the pasta in oil first, add broth and cook until the pasta is tender, then steam some seafood quickly on top.

I've long been fascinated with steam engines and particularly steam cars and airplanes.

Steam yachting is always referred to as a pleasure in which only men of money can indulge.

Fold and double seal edges of foil so the steam doesn't escape the packets.

He grasped the significance of steam taking over from the power of wind and horses.

The steam condenses, and the water runs into a reservoir.

Wherever you had steam coming out of the ground, you could put a steam turbine and you are in business.

Peshtigo's fire-fighting equipment was limited to a single horse-drawn steam pumper.

While the chicken is under way, prepare a rice mix and steam peas.

While watching convicts rowing galleys there, he began speculating on how the newfangled steam engine could power boats.

Tips on how to capture steam or fire in a cooking shot.

None, its all heat and radiation to heat water into steam to create all that electricity.

Just prior to the ship sinking, the crew added more fuel to the fire in a desperate attempt to steam to safety.

The fiction stimulated fact in an epoch when scheduled public travel was speeding up under steam.

Exploring the old hamams-the communal steam baths-which were all now closed but in various states of restoration.

The steam technology is not overdone and isn't used constantly to save the day.

Poor supervision, bad job prospects or lack of money cause them to run out of steam.

We steam through the night, lulled by the rolling gait of the boat.

Antibiotics, the wonder drugs of the mid-20th century, are starting to run out steam.

One imagines the distinctive growl of the extending saber concluding in an explosive hiss of steam.

Or you can concentrate the sun's rays using mirrors, boil water with them, and employ the steam to drive a generator.

When hot lava meets the sea, the resulting steam explosion shatters the lava into fragments and shards.

Another complication was that we'd have had to replace our steam heating with forced air.

The first steam engines were little cheaper than water power.

The steam in the air is usually enough to take out the minor travel wrinkles.

The waste water is pumped back down into the earth, where it can heat up again and produce more steam.

The resulting steam drives turbines similar to those found at power plants that run on coal or natural gas.

But there are reasons to believe that the surge in commodity prices worldwide has run out of steam.

And though much is made of the steam engine, ice scarcely merits a mention.

Place it over the indentation on the floor, and using a steam iron, iron it out.

The steam loosens the bitumen underneath the earth, where gravity drains it into a second well below the steam-filled pipe.

Pieces of fish coated with pungent black-bean garlic sauce steam atop melt-in-your-mouth tofu pedestals.

Even plain water, when used in a steam cleaner, can thoroughly clean any carpet.

Steam iron cleaner is a substance used to clean steam irons.

Most also come with a little steam rack that you put on top of the rice and can steam veggies or poach meat on top.

The cold air over this relatively warmer body of water created this lovely steam rising off the water.

Unlike other early steam locomotives, it will become a commercial.

Poisoning occurs when someone swallows steam iron cleaner.

The first wave is released when the shielded reactor area is opened and radioactive steam is sucked into the sub's ventilation.

Diners picked up hot foods at buffet-style steam tables.

Conferences have become so annoying that this thread is a great way to let off steam.

To make the oil less viscous, production crews commonly heat it by injecting steam into the underlying rock.

Modern reaction vessels and steam ducts now use improved materials and are designed and tested to prevent such failures.

Freud likened emotions to pressure building up in a steam engine.

The wild flavor pairings high-profile chefs once used to attract attention are losing steam as the popular palate warms to.

From here, the mechanics of a steam power plant take over.

It's a fantastic way to blow of steam and extend the use of pricey clothing.

At first there will be a stream of steam coming from the rocket.

When it tries to boil, the steam has nowhere to go because there's so much pressure keeping the water and steam inside the rocks.

Any explosions would likely be the result of a build-up of steam pressure.

The steam pushes on turbines, which force coils of wire to interact with a magnetic field.

From the mirror field, the blistering liquid pours into giant radiators that extract the heat and boil water into steam.

They only produce large amounts of steam when cooling towers are utilized.

From small beginnings, the movement has picked up steam in the past five years.

Several small steam eruptions occurred, new fissures appeared, and a bulge developed on the north flank of the volcano.

When the projectile exits slam the door shut and redirect the radioactive steam into the water.

The steam thereafter is channeled to a steam turbine generator to produce electricity.

But such ships would cost even more, as they require a steam catapult, arrester wires and a bigger crew.

But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city.

One third ran on gasoline, one third on electricity and one third on steam.

Geothermal plants tap into would-be steam that is kept liquid by the high pressure underground.

Methane derived from the manure will be burned to generate the steam necessary for processing corn into ethanol.

They require electricity to charge them, which comes from steam power or hydro electricity generation.

Better still, utilities have found ways to improve the non-nuclear parts of the power station, such as the steam turbines.

To do that, coal is mixed with oxygen and steam at high temperatures and pressure to produce a gas.

Some do all this underground by pumping steam into deeper deposits and pumping out the resulting slurry.

The temperature was near the dew point and steam was rising off its body.

Steam pours from the ground, blanketing us, and there's a strong stench of sulfur in the air.

He charged full steam ahead, whether it was climbing a mountain or getting a photo.

Drive out even farther near the end of the road to watch lava steam as it meets the ocean.

The geysers and hot springs may show that it is even picking up steam.

Water heated by burning coal converts into steam and generates electricity.

They had iron-reinforced hulls and steam engines to power them in the absence of winds.

The concentrated light creates superheated steam inside the pipes that can power conventional steam.

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World English Dictionary

steam (stiːm)

—n
1.	the gas or vapour into which water is changed when boiled
2.	the mist formed when such gas or vapour condenses in the atmosphere
3.	any vaporous exhalation
4.	informal power, energy, or speed
5.	get up steam
	a. (of a ship, etc) to work up a sufficient head of steam in a boiler to drive an engine
	b. informal to go quickly
6.	informal let off steam to release pent-up energy or emotions
7.	under one's own steam without the assistance of others
8.	slang (Austral) cheap wine
9.	(modifier) driven, operated, heated, powered, etc, by steam: a steam radiator
10.	(modifier) treated by steam: steam ironed; steam cleaning
11.	jocular (modifier) old-fashioned; outmoded: steam radio

—vb
12.	to emit or be emitted as steam
13.	(intr) to generate steam, as a boiler, etc
14.	(intr) to move or travel by steam power, as a ship, etc
15.	informal (intr) to proceed quickly and sometimes forcefully
16.	to cook or be cooked in steam
17.	(tr) to treat with steam or apply steam to, as in cleaning, pressing clothes, etc

[Old English; related to Dutch stoom steam, perhaps to Old High German stioban to raise dust, Gothic stubjus dust]

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Word Origin & History

steam

O.E. steam "vapor, fume," from P.Gmc. *staumaz (cf. Du. stoom), of unknown origin. The verb is from O.E. stemen, stymen "to emit a scent or odor;" slang meaning "to make angry" is from 1922. Steamy is first attested 1644; in the sense of "erotic, sexy," it is first recorded 1952. Steamboat is from 1787;

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steam-engine is from 1751; steamer is 1814 in the cookery sense, 1825 as "a vessel propelled by steam," hence steamer trunk (1885), one that carries the essentials for a voyage. Steam age first attested 1941. Steam heat as a method of temperature control recorded from 1904. Steam-roller is from 1866; as a verb, first recorded 1912.

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Science Dictionary

steam (stēm) Pronunciation Key

Water in its gaseous state, especially at a temperature above the boiling point of water (above 100°C, or 212°F, at sea level). See Note at vapor.
A mist of condensed water vapor.

Slang Dictionary

steam definition

tv.
to anger someone. : The prof steamed the class with the long assignment.
in.
to be angry. : They steamed for a while and then did as they were told.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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steam (so) definition

tv.
to get someone excited. : The coach can really steam up those guys.
tv.
to get someone angry. (See also steamed (up).) : This whole mess steamed me up but good.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

steam

see blow off steam; full speed (steam) ahead; get up steam; run out of steam; under one's own steam.

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