Definitions for steam-engine

steam-engine steam engine

Steam-Engine is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 674 anagrams from letters in steam-engine (-aeeegimnnst).

Definitions for steam-engine

noun

  1. an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler.

Origin of steam-engine

First recorded in 1745-55

Examples for steam-engine

Let us suppose ourselves to be in a building in which a steam-engine is at work.

No; the steam-engine is the better thing, for it has the soul of a man in it, and the flower has no soul at all.

They might as well have tried to work a steam-engine on moral reasons.

He leaves it to the specialist, which is as if he should leave his dinner to be eaten by a steam-engine.

Yet the dynamo, next to the steam-engine, was the most familiar of exhibits.

If God be not, then steam-engine and flower are in the same category.

A steam-engine and a steel-filing might equally well be compared together.

Talk of a deer, the wind, or a steam-engine—they are not to be compared with it.

Do not tell me that the people here understand the steam-engine,—pray do not!

James Watt, the great improver of the steam-engine, died on the 25th of August, 1819.

Word Value for steam-engine
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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