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
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton Chekhov
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.
James Nasmyth
In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.
James Nasmyth
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 only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
Phyllis Diller
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
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
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
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
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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