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UK
/stˈiːm/
]
[ US /ˈstim/ ]
[ US /ˈstim/ ]
VERB
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clean by means of steaming
steam-clean the upholstered sofa -
cook something by letting steam pass over it
just steam the vegetables - rise as vapor
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emit steam
The rain forest was literally steaming -
get very angry
her indifference to his amorous advances really steamed the young man -
travel by means of steam power
The ship steamed off into the Pacific
NOUN
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
How To Use steam In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Hassan in frequently going to sleep in one town, to awake in another far distant, but without the benighted Oriental's surprise at the transfer, the afrit who performed this prodigy being a steam-engine, and the magician it obeyed the human mind. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
- Between 1906 and 1907, this wide-ranging businessman established steam-powered tramways in various localities across Japan.
- After just the right wait, they arrived, each accompanied by a side dish of steamed vegetables.
- It was the last big wreck of the steam era on the C.P.R., occurring shortly before I began railroading.
- A Dry Cappuccino is a double shot of espresso with little or no steamed milk, but frothed milk on top.