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S0726000 (stēm)n.1. a. The vapor phase of water.b. A mist of cooling water vapor.2. a. Pressurized water vapor used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical power.b. The power produced by a machine using pressurized water vapor: an engine at full steam.c. Steam heating.3. Power; energy: The fundraising effort ran out of steam.v. steamed, steam·ing, steams v.intr.1. To produce or emit steam: The kettle is steaming. Let's make tea.2. To become or rise up as steam: The rain steamed off the hot pavement.3. To become misted or covered with steam: The bathroom mirror steamed over.4. To move by means of steam power.5. Informal To become very angry; fume.v.tr.1. To expose to steam, as in cooking.2. To cover or mist with steam: The windows are steamed up.3. Informal To make angry: His laziness really steams me.

[Middle English steme, from Old English stēam.]

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(stiːm) n1. (General Physics) the gas or vapour into which water is changed when boiled2. (General Physics) the mist formed when such gas or vapour condenses in the atmosphere3. any vaporous exhalation4. informal power, energy, or speed5. (Nautical Terms) (of a ship, etc) to work up a sufficient head of steam in a boiler to drive an engine6. (Railways) (of a ship, etc) to work up a sufficient head of steam in a boiler to drive an engine7. informal to go quickly8. let off steam informal to release pent-up energy or emotions9. under one's own steam without the assistance of others10. (Brewing) slang Austral cheap wine11. (Mechanical Engineering) (modifier) driven, operated, heated, powered, etc, by steam: a steam radiator. 12. (modifier) treated by steam: steam ironed; steam cleaning. 13. (modifier) jocular old-fashioned; outmoded: steam radio. vb14. to emit or be emitted as steam15. (intr) to generate steam, as a boiler, etc16. (Mechanical Engineering) (intr) to move or travel by steam power, as a ship, etc17. (intr) informal to proceed quickly and sometimes forcefully18. (Cookery) to cook or be cooked in steam19. (tr) to treat with steam or apply steam to, as in cleaning, pressing clothes, etc[Old English; related to Dutch stoom steam, perhaps to Old High German stioban to raise dust, Gothic stubjus dust]

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n. 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. power or energy. v.i. 6. to emit or give off steam or vapor. 7. to rise or pass off in the form of steam or vapor. 8. to become covered with condensed steam, as a window or other surface (often fol. by up). 9. to generate or produce steam, as in a boiler. 10. to move or travel by the agency of steam. 11. to move rapidly or evenly: He steamed out of the room. 12. to be angry or show anger. v.t. 13. to expose to or treat with steam, as in order to heat, cook, soften, or renovate. 14. to emit or exhale (vapor, mist, etc.). 15. to cause to become irked or angry (often fol. by up). 16. to convey by the agency of steam: to steam the ship safely into port. adj. 17. employing or operated by steam: a steam radiator. 18. conducting steam: a steam line. 19. of or pertaining to steam. 20. propelled by or propelling with a steam engine. Idioms: blow or let off steam, to give vent to emotion or energy previously suppressed or contained, esp. by talking or acting unrestrainedly. [before 1000; Old English stēam, c. Frisian steam, Dutch stoom]

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(stēm) Water in its gaseous state, especially at a temperature above the boiling point of water (above 100°C, or 212°F, at sea level). See Note at vapor.

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Past participle: steamed
Gerund: steaming

Imperative
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steam

Present
I steam
you steam
he/she/it steams
we steam
you steam
they steam

Preterite
I steamed
you steamed
he/she/it steamed
we steamed
you steamed
they steamed

Present Continuous
I am steaming
you are steaming
he/she/it is steaming
we are steaming
you are steaming
they are steaming

Present Perfect
I have steamed
you have steamed
he/she/it has steamed
we have steamed
you have steamed
they have steamed

Past Continuous
I was steaming
you were steaming
he/she/it was steaming
we were steaming
you were steaming
they were steaming

Past Perfect
I had steamed
you had steamed
he/she/it had steamed
we had steamed
you had steamed
they had steamed

Future
I will steam
you will steam
he/she/it will steam
we will steam
you will steam
they will steam

Future Perfect
I will have steamed
you will have steamed
he/she/it will have steamed
we will have steamed
you will have steamed
they will have steamed

Future Continuous
I will be steaming
you will be steaming
he/she/it will be steaming
we will be steaming
you will be steaming
they will be steaming

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been steaming
you have been steaming
he/she/it has been steaming
we have been steaming
you have been steaming
they have been steaming

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been steaming
you will have been steaming
he/she/it will have been steaming
we will have been steaming
you will have been steaming
they will have been steaming

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been steaming
you had been steaming
he/she/it had been steaming
we had been steaming
you had been steaming
they had been steaming

Conditional
I would steam
you would steam
he/she/it would steam
we would steam
you would steam
they would steam

Past Conditional
I would have steamed
you would have steamed
he/she/it would have steamed
we would have steamed
you would have steamed
they would have steamed

steam

To cook food in steam (moist heat).

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	steam - water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmospherelive steam - steam coming from a boiler at full pressurevapor, vapour - a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance
Verb	1.	steam - travel by means of steam power; "The ship steamed off into the Pacific"steamernavigation, pilotage, piloting - the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to placego, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"
	2.	steam - emit steam; "The rain forest was literally steaming"give out, emit, give off - give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.; "The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits"
	3.	steam - rise as vaporgo up, rise, move up, lift, arise, come up, uprise - move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"
	4.	steam - get very angry; "her indifference to his amorous advances really steamed the young man"see red, anger - become angry; "He angers easily"
	5.	steam - clean by means of steaming; "steam-clean the upholstered sofa"steam cleanclean, make clean - make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"
	6.	steam - cook something by letting steam pass over it; "just steam the vegetables"cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"cook - transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"

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noun1. vapour, mist, condensation, moisture The heat converts water into high-pressure steam.2. energy, drive, stamina, go (informal), power, strength, pep, zip (informal), vitality, vigour, zeal, verve, zest, welly (slang), get-up-and-go (informal), élan, vivacity, liveliness, vim (slang), forcefulness Socialists everywhere had run out of steam and ideas.get steamed up get worked up, get angry, go mad, go crazy, see red, go ballistic, blow a fuse, get uptight, go off the deep end, get flustered, go up the wall, blow your top, lose your rag, go crook (Austral. & N.Z. slang), get in a stew, get overwrought, flip your lid, hit or go through the roof I think you're getting steamed up over nothing.let off steam1. use up energy, let yourself go, release surplus energy a place where children can rush around to let off steam2. speak your mind, sound off, give vent to your feelings I just phoned to let off steam.under your own steam without help, independently, on your own, by yourself, unaided, by your own efforts The most reliable form of transport is provided by moving under your own steam.

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nounCapacity or power for work or vigorous activity:animation, energy, force, might, potency, power, puissance, sprightliness, strength.Informal: get-up-and-go, go, pep, peppiness, zip.verbInformal. To be or become angry:anger, blow up, boil over, bristle, burn, explode, flare up, foam, fume, rage, seethe.Idioms: blow a fuse, blow a gasket, blow one's stack, breathe fire, fly off the handle, get hot under the collar, hit the ceiling, lose one's temper, see red.

Translations

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(stiːm) noun1. a gas or vapour that rises from hot or boiling water or other liquid. Steam rose from the plate of soup / the wet earth in the hot sun; a cloud of steam; (also adjective) A sauna is a type of steam bath.蒸气2. power or energy obtained from this. The machinery is driven by steam; Diesel fuel has replaced steam on the railways; (also adjective) steam power, steam engines. 蒸气动力（能） verb1. to give out steam. A kettle was steaming on the stove.蒸发2. (of a ship, train etc) to move by means of steam. The ship steamed across the bay.用蒸汽开动3. to cook by steam. The pudding should be steamed for four hours.蒸steam-steam-driven / steam-powered machinery.用蒸汽...的ˈsteamer noun a steamboat or steamship. 汽船ˈsteamy adjective of, or full of, steam. the steamy atmosphere of the laundry. 蒸汽的，充满水汽的 ˈsteamboat, ˈsteamship nouns a ship driven by steam. 汽船steam engine a moving engine for pulling a train, or a fixed engine, driven by steam. 蒸汽机steam roller a type of vehicle driven by steam, with wide and heavy wheels for flattening the surface of newly-made roads etc. 蒸汽压路机full steam ahead at the greatest speed possible. 全速的get steamed up to get very upset or angry. 使烦恼或激动get up steam to build up energy ready for effort. 振作精神let off steam1. to release steam into the air. 放掉蒸汽2. to release or get rid of excess energy, emotion etc. The children were letting off steam by running about in the playground.花掉多余的精力run out of steam to lose energy, or become exhausted. 筋疲力尽steam up to (cause to) become covered with steam. The windows steamed up / became steamed up.充满蒸汽under one's own steam by one's own efforts, without help from others. John gave me a lift in his car, but Mary arrived under her own steam. 用自己的精力（去做某事）

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1. the gas or vapour into which water is changed when boiled 2. the mist formed when such gas or vapour condenses in the atmosphere 3. get up steam (of a ship, etc.) to work up a sufficient head of steam in a boiler to drive an engine 4. Austral slang cheap wine 5. driven, operated, heated, powered, etc., by steam

Steam

the gaseous state of water. Water is heated to the point of vaporization in various typs of heat exchangers, for example, steam boilers and evaporators. It is the working medium in steam power plants and serves as the heat carrier in ventilation systems as well as in heating and water-supply systems. Steam is also used for industrial purposes. When water is heated to 100 °C at a pressure of 101.325 kilonewtons per square meter (kN/m²), or 760 mm Hg, it begins to boil, and steam forms. The temperature of the steam is also 100°C, but the steam occupies a much greater volume than the water. As long as any water remains in the liquid state, the temperature of the system is constant despite the continued addition of heat. When water and steam are in equilibrium, the system has reached the state of saturation, which can be precisely characterized by a specific saturation pressure and saturation temperature. The temperature can begin to rise again only after all the water is converted into steam; the volume of steam at 100°C is 1,673 times greater than the volume of water at 4°C. Upon further heating above the saturation temperature, steam passes from the saturated state into the superheated state. If vaporization is performed at various pressures, the temperature of vaporization changes as a function of pressure (see Table 1).

Table 1. Temperature and density dependence of saturated water and steam on pressure of saturated steam
Steam pressure MN/m² (kgf/cm²)	Temperature °C	Density kg/m³
		Water	Steam
0.101
(1) ................	99.1	959	0.58
1.01
(10) ...............	179	887.9	5.05
10.1
(100)...............	309.5	691.9	54.2
22.3
(220)...............	372.1	420	229

The heat that is required to raise 1 kg of water from 0°C to the saturation temperature is called the enthalpy of water, while the heat that is expended to convert 1 kg of water at the saturation temperature into a dry, saturated vapor is called the heat of vaporization. At the critical pressure, the heat of vaporization equals 0, but if heating is performed at higher pressures, the supply of heat causes a continuous change of temperature. This change is accompanied by a continuous increase in volume without a concurrent separation of material into liquid and gaseous phases. Water is at the critical point when the pressure is 22.1 meganewtons per square meter (MN/m²), or 225.65 kilograms-force per square centimeter (kgf/cm²); when the temperature is 374.15°C; and when the density is 303 kg/m³. Steam is heated above the critical point in steam boilers. As a rule, steam engines and turbines use superheated instead of saturated steam, since machines that are powered by superheated steam are more efficient than those powered by saturated steam; superheated steam is often called live steam. In the USSR and abroad, the strongest steam power plants use steam at a pressure of 25 MN/m² (225 kgf/cm²) and at a temperature of 545°C. For heating purposes, for example, in space heaters, the use of saturated steam is economically feasible because the heat-transfer coefficient for condensating saturated steam is substantially higher than for superheated steam.

The properties of water vapor were first studied in the 16th and 17th centuries. At the beginning of the 17th century, the Italian scientist G. della Porta investigated the specific volume of water vapor. At the same time, the French scientist S. de Caus researched aspects of steam condensation. Various properties of water vapor were investigated at the end of the 18th century: the relationship between vaporization temperature and pressure were studied by D. Papin; heat of vaporization was investigated by J. Black and J. Watt; and Watt also conducted research on the specific volume of steam at the pressure of 0.1 MN/m². The study of the properties of steam as a working medium in steam engines was undertaken in the 1840’s by the French scientist A V. Regnault. In 1904 the German scientist R. Mollier proposed an enthalpy-entropy diagram, called a Mollier diagram, for water vapor.

Studies on the properties of water vapor were carried out in Russia during the 19th century by several scientists, including L. G. Bogaevskii, B. B. Golitsin, and A. I. Nadezhdin. The Soviet scientist I. I. Novikov derived a theoretical equation of state for superheated steam, which he treated as a nonideal gas. Far-reaching experimental studies of the thermodynamic and physical properties of water vapor were performed by several noted scientists, among them Professor M. P. Vukalovich, Professor N. B. Vargaftig, Academician V. A. Kirillin, and Professor D. L. Timrot. Based on the studies of Soviet scientists, tables and diagrams were compiled in the USSR concerning the thermodynamic properties of water and water vapor at pressures of up to 100 MN/m² and temperatures of up to 1000°C. Skeleton tables that contain data on the properties of steam were adopted in New York City in 1963 by the Fourth Conference of the International Association on the Properties of Steam.

REFERENCES

Vukalovich, M. P., and I. I. Novikov. Tekhnicheskaia termodinamika, 4th ed. Moscow, 1968.
Kirillin, V. A., V. V. Sychev, and A. E. Sheindlin. Tekhnicheskaia termodinamika. Moscow, 1968.
Vukalovich, M. P. Tablitsy termodinamicheskikh svoistv vody i vodianogo para, 7th ed. Moscow-Leningrad, 1963.
Vukalovich, M. P., S. L. Rivkin, and A. A. Aleksandrov, Tablitsy teplofizicheskikh svoistv vody i vodianogo para. Moscow, 1969.

What does it mean when you dream about steam?

Seeing and hearing steam in a dream may symbolize the dreamer’s emotional state about an issue or situation. To have a “head of steam” about something means to be full of resolve and ready to proceed full steam ahead with a great deal of personal power to accomplish whatever is to be done. Alternatively, it may indicate anger about someone or some situation and the need to “let off steam.”

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[stēm] (physics) Water vapor, or water in its gaseous state; the most widely used working fluid in external combustion engine cycles.

Steam

Water vapor, or water in its gaseous state. Steam is the most widely used working fluid in external combustion engine cycles, where it will utilize practically any source of heat, that is, coal, oil, gas, nuclear fuel (uranium and thorium), waste fuel, and waste heat. It is also extensively used as a thermal transport fluid in the process industries and in the comfort heating and cooling of space. The universality of its availability and its highly acceptable, well-defined physical and chemical properties also contribute to the usefulness of steam.

The temperature at which steam forms depends on the pressure in the boiler. The steam formed in the boiler (and conversely steam condensed in a condenser) is in temperature equilibrium with the water. Under these conditions, with steam and water in contact and at the same temperature, the steam is termed saturated. Steam can be entirely vapor when it is 100% dry, or it can carry entrained moisture and be wet. After the steam is removed from contact with the liquid phase, the steam can be further heated without changing its pressure. If initially wet, the additional heat will first dry it and then raise it above its saturation temperature. This is a sensible heat addition, and the steam is said to be superheated. Superheated steam at temperatures well above the boiling temperature for the existing steam pressure follows closely the laws of a perfect gas. Chiefly because of its availability, but also because of its nontoxicity, steam is widely used as the working medium in thermodynamic processes. It has a uniquely high latent heat of vaporization. Steam has a specific heat about twice that of air and comparable to that of ammonia. The specific heat of steam is relatively high so that it can carry more thermal energy at practical temperatures than can other usable gases. See Boiler, Steam engine, Steam-generating unit, Steam heating, Steam turbine, Thermodynamic cycle, Thermodynamic principles

Steam

A gaming distribution platform for Windows, Mac and Linux from Valve Corporation, Bellevue, Washington (www.steampowered.com). The Steam client installed in the user's machine is used for downloading, digital rights management and micropayments. Debuting for Windows PCs in 2003, a limited number of games is also available for Android, iOS and PlayStation. With more than 100 million active users and an inventory of more than 7,500 titles as of 2019, Steam accounts for the majority of video games downloaded to desktop systems.

Multiplayer, Development and Hardware
Steam supports multiplayer gaming, automatic updating, cloud storage and social aspects such as friends' lists and in-game voice. The Steamworks programming interface (API) lets developers integrate Steam functions into their games.

Steam Machine
Dedicated Steam hardware from manufacturers such as Alienware, Syber and Maingear debuted starting at the end of 2015, along with a unique and highly customizable controller. A Steam Machine runs SteamOS, Valve's Linux-based OS. Because Steam Machines have not taken the world by storm, Alienware subsequently dropped its offering.

Steam Link
Steam Link is a device that enables Steam content to play on a large-screen TV.

A Steam Machine

This Syber Steam Machine comes with the touchpad Steam controller and high-definition 7.1 onboard audio. (Image courtesy of CYBERPOWERPC, www.cyberpowerpc.com)

Steam Is Everywhere

You can even find Steam gift cards in a supermarket, the platform is so popular.

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noun vapour

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noun energy

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phrase get steamed up

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phrase let off steam: use up energy

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phrase let off steam: speak your mind

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phrase under your own steam

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noun capacity or power for work or vigorous activity

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verb to be or become angry

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noun water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere

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verb travel by means of steam power

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verb emit steam

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verb rise as vapor

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verb get very angry

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verb clean by means of steaming

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verb cook something by letting steam pass over it

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