| steam Jun 1st 2013, 01:56 | | | | Line 87: | Line 87: | | | * Kazakh: {{t|kk|бу|tr=bw|sc=Cyrl}} | | * Kazakh: {{t|kk|бу|tr=bw|sc=Cyrl}} | | | * Khmer: {{t+|km|ចំហាយ|tr=jɑmhaay|sc=Khmr}} | | * Khmer: {{t+|km|ចំហាយ|tr=jɑmhaay|sc=Khmr}} | | − | * Korean: {{t+|ko|증기|tr=jeunggi|sc=Kore}} ({{t-|ko|蒸氣|sc=Kore}}) | + | * Korean: {{t+|ko|김|tr=gim|sc=Kore}}, {{t+|ko|증기|tr=jeunggi|sc=Kore}} ({{t-|ko|蒸氣|sc=Kore}}) | | | * Kyrgyz: {{t-|ky|буу|tr=buu|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t-|ky|пар|tr=par|sc=Cyrl}} | | * Kyrgyz: {{t-|ky|буу|tr=buu|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t-|ky|пар|tr=par|sc=Cyrl}} | | | * Lao: {{t+|lo|ອາຍນ້ຳ|tr=āi nam|sc=Laoo}} | | * Lao: {{t+|lo|ອາຍນ້ຳ|tr=āi nam|sc=Laoo}} |
Latest revision as of 01:56, 1 June 2013 English[edit] Wikipedia  Steam rising from the street grates. (1, 2) Etymology[edit] From Old English stēam Pronunciation[edit] steam (uncountable) - The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase.
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for motive power.
- After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam.
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam.
- A steam-powered vehicle.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle
Synonyms[edit] Derived terms[edit] terms derived from steam (noun) Translations[edit] water vapor - Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: بخار (ar) (buxār) m
- Armenian: գոլորշի (hy) (golorši)
- Aromanian: abur (rup)
- Azeri: buxar (az)
- Belarusian: пар (be) (par) m
- Bengali: বাষ্প (bn) (bashp)
- Bulgarian: пара (bg) (pára) f
- Burmese: ရေငွေ့ (my) (jei ngwei:)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蒸汽 (cmn) (zhēngqì), 蒸氣 (cmn), 蒸气 (cmn) (zhēngqì), 水蒸氣 (cmn), 水蒸气 (cmn) (shuǐzhēngqì)
- Czech: pára (cs)
- Danish: damp (da) c
- Dutch: stoom (nl) m
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: guva (fo) f
- Finnish: vesihöyry (fi), höyry (fi)
- French: vapeur (fr) f
- Galician: vapor (gl) m
- Georgian: ორთქლი (ka) (ort'k'li)
- German: Dampf (de) m
- Greek: υδρατμός (el) (ydratmós) m, ατμός (el) (atmós) m
- Hawaiian: māhu
- Hebrew: אד (he) (ed)
- Hindi: वाष्प (hi) (vāṣp), भाप (hi) (bhāp)
- Hungarian: pára (hu)
- Icelandic: gufa (is) f
- Indonesian: uap (id)
- Irish: gal uisce f
- Italian: vapore (it) m
- Japanese: 湯気 (ja) (ゆげ, yuge), 蒸気 (ja) (じょうき, jōki); (physics, emphasising vapored water) 水蒸気 (ja) (すいじょうき, suijōki)
- Kazakh: бу (kk) (bw)
- Khmer: ចំហាយ (km) (jɑmhaay)
- Korean: 김 (ko) (gim), 증기 (ko) (jeunggi) (蒸氣 (ko))
- Kyrgyz: буу (ky) (buu), пар (ky) (par)
- Lao: ອາຍນ້ຳ (lo) (āi nam)
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water vapor used for heating or as source of kinetic energy - The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked steam (third-person singular simple present steams, present participle steaming, simple past and past participle steamed) - (cooking, transitive) To cook with steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- to steam wood or cloth
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
- (intransitive) To be covered with condensed water vapor.
- With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- We steamed around the Mediterranean.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, "Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton", BBC:
- That was the hard work largely done as the Ivorian waited for Malouda to steam into the box before releasing a simple crossed pass which the Frenchman side-footed home with aplomb.
- (obsolete) To exhale.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
Synonyms[edit] Derived terms[edit] Translations[edit] cooking: to cook with steam to be covered with condensed water vapor to travel by means of steam power to move with great or excessive purposefulness - The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked Adjective[edit] steam (not comparable) - Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
- 1989, "Despite the era's technological marvels, 'wireless' is still magic", Toronto Star:
- 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"
- 2000 January 10, Bill Pannifer, "Sore eyes", The Independent:
- Unlike the Web, old-fashioned steam television must be viewed in sequence in order to pick out those rare bits of useful information.
- 2002 September 5, Alex Kirby, "Summit diary: Aftermath", BBC News:
- In the old days of steam journalism, after cleft sticks had been phased out but before the advent of e-mail, there used to be a fairly sure-fire way of getting your story to the news desk.
- 2004 April 2, "'I'ma player. It's time to move on'", Telegraph.co.uk:
- Fox has been at Capital since 1988, where he lurks a little in the shadow of Chris Tarrant, the radio station's monolithic star who has helmed the plum breakfast show slot since the steam radio dawn of time.
Anagrams[edit]
Old English[edit] Etymology[edit] Proto-Germanic *staumaz, compare also Dutch stoom. Extra-Germanic cognate include Albanian teshtimë ("sneeze, violent eruption"), pështym ("spit, vomit"), both related to tym ("smoke, steam"). stēam m - steam (water vapor)
West Frisian[edit] steam c - steam
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