steam
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1. steam - Noun
2. steam - Adjective
3. steam - Verb
Meaning
The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor.
The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage.
Any exhalation.
To emit steam or vapor.
To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.
To move or travel by the agency of steam.
To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.
To exhale.
To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.
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When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical.
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.
A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
The pot-lid is always badly off: the pot gets all the sweet, the lid nothing but steam.