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[ UK /stˈiːm/ ]
[ US /ˈstim/ ]
VERB
  1. clean by means of steaming
    steam-clean the upholstered sofa
  2. cook something by letting steam pass over it
    just steam the vegetables
  3. rise as vapor
  4. emit steam
    The rain forest was literally steaming
  5. get very angry
    her indifference to his amorous advances really steamed the young man
  6. travel by means of steam power
    The ship steamed off into the Pacific
NOUN
  1. water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere

How To Use steam In A Sentence

  • A view of the steam-chest side of the cylinder is given in Figure 323, and a horizontal cross section of the cylinder, the steam-chest and the valves, is shown in Figure 324. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught
  • Combine the corn with steamed green vegetables like asparagus and offer baked potatoes to ensure the children don't go hungry.
  • It's penguins, albatrosses, caracaras, steamer ducks and a couple of endemic small jobs you've come for.
  • Between 1906 and 1907, this wide-ranging businessman established steam-powered tramways in various localities across Japan.
  • Leo Nocentelli, co-founder of the Meters and New Orleans guitar legend, may not have turned Blues Alley into the steamiest place in Georgetown on Wednesday night when he re-ignited "Fire On The Bayou. In concert: The Meters Experience at Blues Alley
  • The snowy dome of Fujisan reddening in the sunrise rose above the violet woodlands of Mississippi Bay as we steamed out of Yokohama Harbour on the 19th, and three days later I saw the last of Japan — a rugged coast, lashed by a wintry sea. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
  • The use of steam-driven bellows in blast furnaces helped ironmakers switch over from charcoal (limited in quantity) to coke, which is made from coal, in the smelting of pig iron.
  • If you want the greatest nutritional value from your corn, how should you eat it: raw, quickly steamed or thoroughly cooked?
  • The decade following saw the first railway train arrive from the East, the first C.P.R. steamship anchored in port, the Klondike "boom," and the great mining industries of British Columbia well under way. Canadian Cities of Romance
  • I held my breath and submerged myself under the steaming water.
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