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steam English

Meaning steam meaning

What does steam mean?
Definitions in simple English

steam Noun

— A substance like air, made of water that is very hot. The food is hot -- I see steam coming from the pot.

steam

— verb travel by means of steam power The ship steamed off into the Pacific — verb emit steam The rain forest was literally steaming — verb rise as vapor — verb get very angry her indifference to his amorous advances really steamed the young man — verb (= steam clean) clean by means of steaming steam-clean the upholstered sofa — verb cook something by letting steam pass over it just steam the vegetables — noun water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere

Synonyms steam synonyms

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steam English » English

vapor vapour smoke water vapor gas fume water vapour stew mist fog simmer air steamer evaporation breath boil steam clean haze fumes exhalation evaporate emit smoke vaporize seethe rise reek poach give off smoke cook by steaming condensation coddle clouds cigarette weather warmth sweat superheater storm steaming squeeze smudge smog smell sizzle sickness sail rampage rage push pressure

Topics steam topics

What do people use steam to talk about?
Universe, creation World

Solid, liquid, gas
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Cloud
Universe, creation World Solid, liquid, gas

Gas
Daily life Food Food preparation

Cooking methods
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with land
Person Body condition

Tired
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Dig

Conjugation steam conjugation

How do you conjugate steam?

steam · verb

Examples steam examples

How do I use steam in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I was just blowing off steam.
That will let you blow off steam.
The engine is driven by steam.
It's very important to know how to let off steam, living in this world.
The steam has fogged my glasses.
Steam boilers may explode.
Steam trains were replaced by electric trains.
Water changes into steam.
When converting 1 mole of ice into water, and 1 mole of water into steam, which requires more energy?
The steam train abruptly stopped.
Tom needs to let off some steam.
The result of the invention of the steam engine was that human power was replaced by mechanical power.
I must let off steam.
Pretty soon along came a steam shovel and dug a road through the hill covered with daisies.
A steam engine transforms heat into power.
Steam locomotives run less smoothly than electric trains.
Water turns into steam when it is boiled.
Heat turns water into steam.
He succeeded in applying steam to navigation.
No steam breaks bones.
The steam ship has gone out of sight.
Recently, there have been signs that the economy is picking up steam.

Movie subtitles

Go and let off some steam.
May I suggest getting your entire house steam-cleaned?
May I ask how your steam is hissing?
Gus, will you look in the steam room and see if my frankfurters are done?
You came here on a steamer. The steam brought you here.
My eyes won't stand light. See how acid is the steam?
Now wait a minute, I know you've got a hangover, and you're nervous about the show, and you've got to let off steam on somebody but please, don't say anything we might both regret.
Nothing but clouds of steam, boiling seas and exploding volcanoes.
Then after a while I opened my door a crack, and there he was still coming along with you, puffing like a steam engine.
And suppose you get up a little steam. get back to town and do some work.
Tugboat Annie's back again with a full head of steam.
Bock beer, lager beer or steam beer.
Come on, get me a steam-heated cab with a slow meter.
One is to command the Southern Cross, a steam.
Full steam ahead!
Well have steam up in five minutes.
Remember the Russian steam-roller?
Now you're running out of steam.
We're running on steam!
That's what a steam engine looks like, a coffeepot on wheels.
Let her blow off her steam.
Steam.
It was as hot as a hot dog, and Frankie's team looked like they were running out of steam.
Off you go now, lads. Go and let off some steam.
Moore leads with a left to the head, not much steam behind his punches.
What's he wanna go ahead and blow a lot of steam off for?
Van, I've got a brand new kind of a steam cabinet some fellow in Belgium invented, and I tell you, I'm like a kid with a toy.
You know, I haven't had a good steam bath in a year.
Well, it's probably this new steam bath.
The ones in there are out of steam, but you will do it.
Now you're running out of steam. -You shouldn't think you can still rely on your beloved police.
You've gone and let all the steam out.
You're letting all the steam out!
Let her go! Full steam ahead!
In my short career I've had success as a schoolmaster, a salesman of perfumes.. Steam locomotives.. political editor of a newspaper. Why go on?

News and current affairs

A technological breakthrough - the steam engine, computers, the Internet - may play a leading role.
Indeed, growth in earnings and profits is now running out of steam, as the effect of weak demand on top-line revenues takes a toll on bottom-line margins and profitability.
This date also happens to coincide with James Watt's design of the steam engine in 1784.
I find it intriguing to go back almost 200 years and consider Britain's political economy when the First Industrial Revolution was gathering steam.
Its growth model, based largely on exporting cheap manufactured goods to developed countries, is running out of steam.
After all, popular protests have failed to gather steam; Bashar al-Assad's regime has held firm in Syria; and Egypt, with neither a constitution nor a parliament, has apparently veered from democracy, if not descended into chaos.
Thus, the Japanese economy's potential annual growth rate slowed by roughly an additional two percentage points at the beginning of the 1990's, as the post-WWII development model lost its steam.
The nations of WANA missed the first industrial revolution based on coal and the steam engine, and then the second industrial revolution based on oil and the internal combustion engine.
First, and most obviously, the supposed turn to the left is running out of steam, fast.
The more we steam headlong into the future, the more we amalgamate the data and detritus of the past and place it irrevocably into the present.
As the Agricultural Age faded, a whole new vocabulary was invented, and the world became familiar with terms like steam pressure, revolutions per minute, and assembly lines.
Experience tells us that if you don't let the steam out of a pot, the pot will explode.
COPENHAGEN: Worrying signs are mounting that the European Union's enlargement process is losing steam.
In total, he spent 80 hours waiting or driving, averaging just ten kilometers per hour - an unenviable pace even before the advent of the steam engine.
In the earliest days of the automobile in the late nineteenth century, many kinds of cars competed with each other - steam, battery, and internal combustion engine (ICE).
Turkey's initiatives have lost steam, and the United States and its European allies are merely going through the diplomatic motions; in practice, their efforts imply little serious impact on the regime.
Cities also give rise to the opportunity to combine public utilities, as when urban power plants use the steam released in electricity generation to provide hot water and heating to residents.
Unfortunately, the recovery is liable to run out of steam, and may even be followed by a second economic downturn, though I am not sure whether it will occur in 2010 or 2011.
Or maybe it was the industrial revolution of the eighteenth century in Britain - the steam engine, the forge, and the cotton mill - that set the train of progress in motion.
Should the world steam head-on into another Kyoto Protocol-style agreement?
There does not appear to be any alarmingly maximalist, monolithic position, embraced by the entire government and Communist Party, on which China is determined to steam ahead.
But conventional geothermal power requires a natural source of large quantities of steam or hot water, and such sources are usually found only in volcanic regions, which rules out its use in large parts of the world.
The Indian army is using solar steam cooking in Ladakh to cook for the 500 jawans (young army recruits) stationed there, and so is the Shirdi Sai Baba temple in Maharashtra.

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