Definition of Steam

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Definition of Steam

Steam

The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor.

The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage.

Any exhalation.

To emit steam or vapor.

To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.

To move or travel by the agency of steam.

To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.

To exhale.

To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.

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Steam Quotations

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Henry Ward Beecher

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
Ben Sweetland

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton Chekhov

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
Charles Babbage

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
Conor Oberst

I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.
Phil Collins

The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.
John Sexton

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!
Paul Prudhomme

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
Mark Haddon

Steam Translations

steam in Danish is damp
steam in Dutch is stoom, wasem, damp
steam in German is dampfen, Dampf
steam in Italian is vapore
steam in Latin is fumo
steam in Portuguese is vapor
steam in Spanish is vapor

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