Definitions for steamers

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steamers steam·er

Spelling: [stee-mer]

IPA: /ˈsti mər/

Steamers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 338 anagrams from letters in steamers (aeemrsst).

Definitions for steamers

noun

1. something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
2. a person or thing that steams.
3. a device, pot, or container in which something is steamed.
4. soft-shell clam.
5. water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
6. water changed to this form by boiling, extensively used for the generation of mechanical power, for heating purposes, etc.
7. the mist formed when the gas or vapor from boiling water condenses in the air.
8. an exhalation of a vapor or mist.
9. 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 travel by steamship.
2. to emit or give off steam or vapor.
3. to rise or pass off in the form of steam or vapor.
4. to become covered with condensed steam, as a window or other surface (often followed by up).
5. to generate or produce steam, as in a boiler.
6. to move or travel by the agency of steam.
7. to move rapidly or evenly:
8. Informal. to be angry or show anger:

Origin of steamers

First recorded in 1805-15; steam + -er¹

Examples for steamers

Yet he was conscious that his will was weakening; that he did not mean to go down to the steamer just yet.

Carefully place the platter of salmon and vegetables on top of a rack or steamer tray in the roasting pan.

The steamer's deck was covered with ice, over which sand had been strewn.

The daily paper would mean the daily steamer or the daily train.

The steamer trunks under the windows are for storing toys and for dressing up clothes.

Wrap in a strip of gauze or cheesecloth and place in a steamer.

In calm contrast to the hurry of sailing vessel and steamer a silent fleet of white warships lay motionless in midstream.

One minute the script, the next a story about Ivor Novello's tailor or the Tahiti steamer schedule in the Thirties.

And you were going home that night we made you miss your steamer!

steamer service on the Amazon had turned a journey of three months into one of mere days.