steam
蒸汽,蒸气,蒸汽机,蒸蒸日上
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Definitions
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- : water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- : water changed to this form by boiling, extensively used for the generation of mechanical power, for heating purposes, etc.
- : the mist formed when the gas or vapor from boiling water condenses in the air.
- : an exhalation of a vapor or mist.
- : Informal. power or energy.
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- : to emit or give off steam or vapor.
- : to rise or pass off in the form of steam or vapor.
- : to become covered with condensed steam, as a window or other surface.
- : to generate or produce steam, as in a boiler.
- : to move or travel by the agency of steam.
- : to move rapidly or evenly: He steamed out of the room.
- : Informal. to be angry or show anger: Fans are still steaming from Monday night’s sloppy 5-4 loss.
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- : to expose to or treat with steam, as in order to heat, cook, soften, renovate, or the like.
- : to emit or exhale.
- : Informal. to cause to become irked or angry.
- : to convey by the agency of steam: to steam the ship safely into port.
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- : heated by or heating with steam: a steam radiator.
- : propelled by or propelling with a steam engine.
- : operated by steam.
- : conducting steam: a steam line.
- : bathed with or affected by steam.
- : of or relating to steam.
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Examples
Both sides of Prop 22 are going full steam ahead in their efforts to sway California voters.
Competitors can add a bunch of milk, shape the oatmeal into tapas, brulee it, steam it, or bake it.
When you can’t step away ever or let off the steam in a healthy way it can be very difficult.
Equities usually lose steam and then bounce back over several months, not weeks.
Sailors screamed and moaned piteously on the upper decks, the steady hiss of steam in their ears.
In 2006, the firm presided over a routine steam-injection procedure known as “well stimulation.”
Parenting a kid that can get from place to place under his own steam is a whole new ballgame.
But as one deadly malady loses steam, another may be exploding: hunger.
Either way, the Navy is proceeding full steam ahead in preparing the DDG-1000 for sea.
In the 19th century, steam-powered printing presses led to mass circulations newspapers and magazines.
A colossal steam "traveller" had ceaselessly carried great blocks of stone and long steel girders from point to point.
Two huge steam engines had snorted and puffed for three whole years.
Greenlaw (Charles P.), his efforts in obtaining steam for India, 560.
The steamboat of 1809 and the steam locomotive of 1830 were the direct result of what had gone before.
The Comet started on her first trip up the Arkansas, being the first steam boat that ascended that river.