steam

Meaning

Noun

1. The vapor formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase.
2. The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air
3. The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air
4. Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
5. The act of cooking by steaming.
6. Internal energy for progress or motive power.
7. Pent-up anger.
8. A steam-powered vehicle.
9. Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
10. (obsolete) Any exhalation.
11. Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.

Verb

1. To cook with steam.
2. To be cooked with steam.
3. To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
4. To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
5. To produce or vent steam.
6. To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
7. To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
8. To make angry.
9. To cover with condensed water vapor.
10. To travel by means of steam power.
11. To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
12. (obsolete) To exhale.

Adj

Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.

Synonyms

vapor

vapour

smoke

water vapor

gas

fume

mist

water vapour

fog

🌫️

stew

🍲

air

simmer

boil

evaporation

steamer

breath

vapour

fumes

steam clean

exhalation

vapor

haze

evaporate

emit smoke

vaporize

cigarette

🚬

clouds

☁️

poach

coddle

seethe

give off smoke

cook by steaming

condensation

reek

rise

squeeze

steaming

storm

superheater

sweat

😓

warmth

weather

be sultry

not clear

be steamed

evapour

water vapor

anger

💢

water vapour

aqueous vapour

bedew

bubbles

🫧

constriction

damp

disease

drift

emanation

emit

energy

epidemic

fire

🔥

flare

float

go

go off

grow fat

heat

hot weather

humidity

leverage

moisture

poultice

press

pressure

push

rage

😡

rampage

sail

sickness

sizzle

smell

👃

smog

smudge

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stiːm/

Etymology

From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”).