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Definition steam
Etymology
From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English st?am (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ew- (“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 f?mus (“smoke, steam”).
Noun
steam (usually uncountable, plural steams)
- The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase.
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for motive power.
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- A steam-powered vehicle.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- (obsolete) Any exhalation.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
Verb
steam (third-person singular simple present steams, present participle steaming, simple past and past participle steamed)
- (cooking, transitive) To cook with steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive) To be covered with condensed water vapor.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (obsolete) To exhale.
Adjective
steam (not comparable)
- Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
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