steam engine

Noun

Meaning

An engine moved by steam.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

steam-engine

Synonyms

engine train battery generator locomotive steamer boiler diesel locomotive diesel engine freight train electric locomotive tank engine combustion chamber combustion engine steam locomotive
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Related terms

steam locomotive steam power steam shovel steam roller steam tractor

Examples

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if I do not support it. The title attracts attention to myself. Stendhal

Modern liberalism: a heartless steam engine. Samuel Wilberforce

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere. Michael Bond

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery. Clyde Tombaugh

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign. Erik Brynjolfsson

Where did the second law of thermodynamics come from? ...The steam engine. ...The cosmos is not a steam engine. Howard Bloom

Close letter words and terms

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