steam

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /stiːm/    美 /stiːm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature). uncountable,usually
  2. The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.; Mist, fog. uncountable,usually
  3. The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.; Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation. uncountable,usually
  4. Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy. uncountable,usually
  5. The act of cooking by steaming. uncountable,usually
    — Give the carrots a ten-minute steam.
  6. Internal energy for progress or motive power. figuratively,uncountable,usually
    — After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam.
  7. Pent-up anger. figuratively,uncountable,usually
    — Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam.
  8. A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use. uncountable,usually
    — Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and jettisoning the features that have given trouble, in particular the chain-driven valve-motion, should give the Southern a supply of highly-competent machines able to last out the remaining life of steam on the S.R.
  9. Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle. uncountable,usually
  10. Any exhalation. obsolete,uncountable,usually
    — a steam of rich, distilled perfumes
    Comus
  11. Fencing without the use of any electric equipment. uncountable,usually
动词 v.
  1. To cook with steam. transitive
    — The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them.
  2. To be cooked with steam. figuratively,intransitive
    — The artichokes are steaming in the pot.
  3. To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing. transitive
    — to steam wood or cloth
  4. To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive. transitive
    — Until recently the mainstay of the line were four 2-8-2 + 2-8-2 Garratts, built for its opening. One is still steamed regularly, and there is no intention of breaking up the others, but the line has now been dieselised.
  5. To produce or vent steam. intransitive
    — See, ſee, my Brother's Ghoſt hangs hovering there, / O're his vvarm Blood, that ſteems into the Air, / Revenge, Revenge it cries.
  6. To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour. intransitive
    — Our breath steamed in the cold winter air.
  7. To become angry; to fume; to be incensed. figuratively,intransitive
  8. To make angry. figuratively,transitive
    — It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
  9. To cover with condensed water vapor. transitive
    — With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.
  10. To travel by means of steam power. intransitive
    — We steamed around the Mediterranean.
  11. To move with great or excessive purposefulness. figuratively,literally
    — If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.
  12. To exhale. obsolete
    — like inward fire that outward smoke had steemd
形容词 adj.
  1. Old-fashioned; from before the digital age. not-comparable
    — Tom Earle, a CBC radio veteran now compiling audio archives in Ottawa, used to refer to the medium in which he worked as "steam radio"

词形变化

steams plural steams present,singular,third-person steaming participle,present steamed participle,past steamed past

词汇关系

反义词
electric
衍生词
aerosteam blow off one's steam blow off steam build up steam by steam double steam full steam full steam ahead gain steam gather steam head of steam in steam let off steam live steam nonsteam non-steam one engine in steam pick up steam raise steam run out of steam steam accumulator steam age steam bath steam beer steamboat steam-boat steam boiler steam car steam carriage steam chest steam coal steam condenser steam cooker steam-crack steam-cracked steam cracker steam cracking steam crane steam devil steam digester steam distillation steam dome steam donkey steam drier steam drum steam engine steam fair steam festival steamfitter steamfitting steam fog steam generator steam gun steam hammer steam-hauled steam-heat steam heater steam heating steamie steam iron steam jack steam jacket steamless steamlike steamliner steam loco steam locomotive steam lorry steam navvy steam organ steam-packet steam piano steam pipe steampipe Steam Plains steam power steam-powered steamproof steampunk steam radio steam railroad steam reforming steamroll steam roller steamroller steam room steam ship steam-ship steamship steam shovel steam-shovel steamsona steamtable steam table steamtight steam tractor steam train steam tunnel steam turbine steam wagon steamway steamy steam yacht under one's own steam asteam outsteam oversteam presteam steamable steam ahead steamer steaming steam off steam up

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
词源 3
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”).
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