Word Finder - steam

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The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase.

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Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.

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Internal energy for motive power.

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After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam.

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Pent-up anger.

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Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam.

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A steam-powered vehicle.

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Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.

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Any exhalation.

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Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.

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To cook with steam.

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The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them.

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To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.

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to steam wood or cloth

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To produce or vent steam.

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

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Our breath steamed in the cold winter air.

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To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.

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To make angry.

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It really steams me to see her treat him like that.

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To be covered with condensed water vapor.

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With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.

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To travel by means of steam power.

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The ship steamed out of the harbour

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To move with great or excessive purposefulness.

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If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.

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To exhale.

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Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.

Father took us to see steam boat it is like house.

We'll just have to let him blow off some steam, and then he'll come around.

Steam rose from them.

He should have just become a steam drill operator!

The horse's breath made puffs of steam as she trotted along the road to the cadence of tinkling bells.

It was after one before they ran out of steam and called it a night.

To that I must entirely change my point of view and study the laws of the movement of steam, of the bells, and of the wind.

Steam and dampness clung to her as she set foot in the bathing room.

Tile steam mills give the best results.

He didn't catch the sarcasm in her voice; his gaze was trained on a woman clad only in a towel and trailed by steam, emerging from a door along one wall.

I guess I'm just blowing off steam.

Dean knew the Parkside Sentinel would be going full steam later in the day, so he stopped by the red brick building on his way to work.

A drawback to the use of steam is the fact that the high temperature of the pipes and radiators attracts and spreads a great deal of dust.

The steam is employed for warming apartments by means of pipe radiators, for heating water by steam injections, and for all cooking purposes.

Vulcanization is then effected by steam heat, and, the preparation on the cloth being softened by water, the sheet of rubber is readily removed.

Steam launches did not exist on the river before 1866 or 1867, and houseboats only in the form of college barges at Oxford.

Before the building of the Forth Bridge the customary approach to Fifeshire and the north-east of Scotland was by means of a steam ferry from Granton to Burntisland, which is still used to some extent.

It is divided into three parts, separated by walls, and each containing a lake, of which the middle one emits steam and the two others are cold.

Bituminous coal, natural gas and oil abound in the vicinity; the river provides excellent water-power; the borough is a manufacturing centre of considerable importance, its products including iron and steel bridges, boilers, steam drills, carriages, saws, files, axes, shovels, wire netting, stoves, glass-ware, scales, chemicals, pottery, cork, decorative tile, bricks and typewriters.

It is connected with Amsterdam by a steam tramway, passing by way of the small fortified towns of Naarden and Muiden on the Zuider Zee.

The presence in an alloy of a eutectic which solidifies at a much lower temperature than the main mass, implies a great reduction in tenacity, especially if it is to be used above the ordinary temperature as in the case of pipes conveying super-heated steam.

After well washing with water, the slimes are roughly dried in bag-filters or filter-presses, and then treated with dilute sulphuric acid, the solution being heated by steam.

It is only slightly soluble in water, but is readily volatile in steam.

Another plan in the greenhouse is to dash water on the pipes or flues, which causes steam to rise to the glass and freeze there, stopping up all the crevices.

Steam tramways connect it with Schiedam, and with Numansdorp on the south of the island of Beierland, and there is a regular service of steamers by river and canal to Antwerp by way of the South Holland and Zeeland Islands and in every direction.

The northern and southern provinces are further connected by the lines Amsterdam - Zaandam (1878) - Enkhuizen (1885), whence there is a steam ferry across the Zuider Zee to Stavoren, from where the railway is continued to Leeuwarden (1883-1885); the Netherlands Central railway, Utrecht - AmersfoortZwoole - Kampen (1863); and the line Utrecht - 's Hertogenbosch (1868-1869) which is continued southward into Belgium by the lines bought in 1898 from the Grand Central Belge railway, namely, via Tilburg to Turnhout (1867), and via Eindhoven (1866) to Hasselt.

Railways radiate from it to Lecco, Ponte della Selva, Usmate (for Monza or Seregno), Treviglio (on the main line from Milan to Verona and Venice) and (via Rovato) to Brescia, and steam tramways to Treviglio, Sarnico and Soncino.

It has a characteristic smell, and is very volatile, distilling readily in a current of steam.

To regulate the heat it is necessary either to instal a number of small radiators or to divide the radiators into sections, each section controlled by distinct valves; steam may then be admitted to all the sections of the radiator or to any less number of sections as desired.

Volcanic outbreaks of steam and sulphur-springs are found.

Plant houses were formerly heated in a variety of ways - by fermenting organic matter, such as dung, by smoke flues, by steam and by hot water circulating in iron pipes.

The rapid advance in mechanical engineering in the latter part of this second period stimulated the iron industry greatly, giving it in 1728 Payn and Hanbury's rolling mill for rolling sheet iron, in 1760 John Smeaton's cylindrical cast-iron bellows in place of the wooden and leather ones previously used, in 1783 Cort's grooved rolls for rolling bars and rods of iron, and in 1838 James Nasmyth's steam hammer.

But even more important than these were the advent of the steam engine between 1760 and 1770, and of the railroad in 1825, each of which gave the iron industry a great impetus.

When the gas which escapes from the furnace top is used in gas engines it generates about four times as much power as when it is used for raising steam.

It has been calculated that the gas from a pair of old-fashioned blast-furnaces making i 600 tons of iron per week would in this way yield some 16,000 horse-power in excess of their own needs, and that all the available blast-furnace gas in the United States would develop about i,50o,000 horse-power, to develop which by raising steam would need about 20,000,000 tons of coal a year.

Castings which, like hydraulic press cylinders and steam radiators, must be dense and hence must have but little graphite lest their contents leak through their walls, should not have more than 1.75% of silicon and may have even as little as 1% if impenetrability is so important that softness and consequent ease of machining must be sacrificed to it.

In the intermittent system the waste heat can, it is true, be utilized either for raising steam (but inefficiently and inconveniently, because of the intermittency), or by a regenerative method like the Siemens, Fig.

The demand for very large forgings, especially for guns and armour plate, led to the building of enormous steam hammers.

Among the other causes of the increase of the per capita consumption of iron are the displacement of wood by iron for ships and bridge-building; the great extension of the use of iron beams, columns and other pieces in constructing buildings of various kinds; the growth of steam and electric railways; and the introduction of iron fencing.

Owing to its position at the terminus of steam navigation up the river Tobol, it has become second only to Tyumen as a commercial centre.

If the old man was going to sulk, Dean thought, might as well get it out in the open and allow him to vent a little steam.

The snow crunched under their feet and the icy carried Katie's words back in a cloud of steam.

Down the hill, across the creek and across the field to the buffalo shed? the crisp air traced their progress with a wisp of steam.

There is now regular steam communication; the affairs of the islands are duly administered, and the population has grown to about 4500.

Hence he inferred that the amount of heat given up to the condenser of an engine when the engine is doing work must be less than when the same amount of steam is blown through the engine without doing any work.

In 1839 Seguin endeavoured to determine the mechanical equivalent of heat from the loss of heat suffered by steam in expanding, assuming that the whole of the heat so lost was consumed in doing external work against the pressure to which the steam was exposed.

This assumption, however, cannotbe justified, because it neglected to take account of work which might possibly have to be done within the steam itself during the expansion.

The different kinds of motive power used to actuate cranes - manual, steam, hydraulic, electric - give a further classification.

Steam is an extremely useful motive power for all cranes that are not worked off a central power station.

The first method is in general use for steam cranes; it allows for a far greater range of power in the brake, but is not automatic, as is the second.