Definitions for steam

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Spelling: [steem]

IPA: /stim/

Steam is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in steam (aemst).

Definitions for steam

noun

1. water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
2. water changed to this form by boiling, extensively used for the generation of mechanical power, for heating purposes, etc.
3. the mist formed when the gas or vapor from boiling water condenses in the air.
4. an exhalation of a vapor or mist.
5. Informal. power or energy.

Idioms

1. blow / let off steam, Informal. to give vent to one's repressed emotions, especially by talking or behaving in an unrestrained manner:

adjective

1. heated by or heating with steam:
2. propelled by or propelling with a steam engine.
3. operated by steam.
4. conducting steam:
5. bathed with or affected by steam.
6. of or relating to steam.

verb (used with object)

1. to expose to or treat with steam, as in order to heat, cook, soften, renovate, or the like.
2. to emit or exhale (steam or vapor).
3. Informal. to cause to become irked or angry (often followed by up).
4. to convey by the agency of steam:

verb (used without object)

1. to emit or give off steam or vapor.
2. to rise or pass off in the form of steam or vapor.
3. to become covered with condensed steam, as a window or other surface (often followed by up).
4. to generate or produce steam, as in a boiler.
5. to move or travel by the agency of steam.
6. to move rapidly or evenly:
7. Informal. to be angry or show anger:

Origin of steam

before 1000; Middle English steme, Old English stēam; cognate with Dutch stoom

Examples for steam

The show was an instant hit and a cash cow for Walters and ABC, but lately the franchise has been running out of steam.

The air around the grill clouds with the steam of sizzling onions.

A steam dahabeah is what we want, so we won't be at the mercy of the wind.

There were no passengers on board the steam dahabeah Mamoudieh.

The atmosphere was stifling as a night in the rains by reason of the steam and the crowd.

I now know this was a conduction-style vaporizer, which requires a chamber to hold the steam.

The sound was exactly that of steam roaring from a locomotive's safety valve.

It was imagined that it was necessary to expel it by means of heat or steam.

Parenting a kid that can get from place to place under his own steam is a whole new ballgame.

Why they do it who knows, but the Tragic Jen narrative has never run out of steam, even with the presence of the .