steam
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Is steam a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of steam?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.Examples: "After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam."; "Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em."figurativelyuncountableusually
2. (figuratively) Pent-up anger.Examples: "Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam."figurativelyuncountableusually
3. (obsolete) Any exhalation.Examples: "a steam of rich, distilled perfumes"obsoleteuncountableusually
4. (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.uncountableusually
verb (English)
1. (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.Examples: "The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them."transitive
2. (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.Examples: "The artichokes are steaming in the pot."; "I'm steaming in this coat."figurativelyintransitive
3. (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.Examples: "to steam wood or cloth"transitive
4. (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.Examples: ""We will give 198 a full exam. Then steam her, and operate her for the rest of the season."transitive
5. (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.Examples: "See, ſee, my Brother's Ghoſt hangs hovering there, / O're his vvarm Blood, that ſteems into the Air, / Revenge, Revenge it cries."; "I found that the Chapelon steamed almost too freely, because on a strange locomotive and road one usually tends to overfire a little through a natural lack of confidence."intransitive
6. (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.Examples: "Our breath steamed in the cold winter air."; "[T]he diſſolved Amber vvas plainly diſcernable ſvvimming like a thin film upon the ſurface of the Liquor, vvhence little by little it ſteamed avvay into the air."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary