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Definition: Steam |
SteamNoun1. Water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere. Verb1. Travel by means of steam power; "The ship steamed off into the Pacific". 2. Emit steam; "The rain forest was literally steaming.". 3. Rise as vapor. 4. Get very angry; "her indifference to his amorous advances really steamed the young man". 5. Clean by means of steaming. 6. Cook something by letting steam pass over it; "just steam the vegetables". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "steam" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Energy | Water in vapor form; used as the working fluid in steam turbines and heating systems. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Water in the vapour phase; the term water vapour is mainly used for low pressure steam present in air. Source: European Union. (references) |
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A locomotive is a vehicle that provides the motive power for a railway train. Traditionally, the locomotive or locomotives are positioned at the front of a train, pulling passenger carriages and/or freight vehicles. This requires the locomotive to be moved from one end of the train to another when a change of direction is required. However, it is now common for the locomotive for a passenger train to remain at the same end of the train. A driving cab is provided in the outermost carriage, with controls which communicate with the locomotive through wiring along the train. The train is thus pulled by the locomotive when moving in one direction, and pushed in the other. A variation of this occurs when a train consists of a set of carriages with a locomotive at each end, both of which are controlled by a driver in the leading locomotive.
Drivers are instructed by signals when they may start or must stop. see railway signaling
A steam locomotive at the Gare du Nord, Paris, France, in 1930.
Long freight trains sometimes have locomotives at the front and rear, and even in the middle of the train. This reduces the force on the couplings between the freight vehicles. In this case, control signals are usually sent from the leading locomotive by radio.
Trains which do not have locomotives are referred to as multiple units.
Steam
The first railway locomotives (19th century) were powered by steam engines. Because of this, the some people took to informally calling the steam locomotives themselves "steam engines". The steam locomotive remained by far the most common type of locomotive until after World War II.
The all-time speed record for steam trains is held by an A4 Pacific class locomotive of the LNER in England, Mallard which pulling six cars (plus a dynamometer car) reached 203 km/h (126 mph) on a slight downhill gradient down Stoke Bank on July 3, 1938. Locomotives from other nations such as Germany and the United States attained speeds very close to this, and this is generally believed to be close to the practicable upper limit for the direct-coupled steam locomotive.
Before the middle of the 20th century, electric and diesel locomotives began replacing steam locomotives. By the end of the 1960s, most countries had completely replaced steam locomotives in commercial service. Other designs, such as locomotives powered by gas turbines, have been experimented with, but seen little use.
Well before the end of the 20th century, almost the only steam power still in regular use in the USA and Western European countries was on railroads specifically aimed at tourists and/or railfans. Steam locomotives remained in commercial use in parts of Mexico in to the late 1970s. Steam locomotives remain in regular use in China, where coal is a much more abundant resource than petroleum for diesel fuel. In some mountainous and high altitude rail lines, steam remains in use because it is less affected by reduced air pressure than is diesel.
Diesel-mechanical
Diesel locomotives differ in the form of transmission used to convey the power from a diesel engine (or engines) to the wheels. The most simple form of transmission is by means of a gearbox, in the same way as on road vehicles. Diesel trains or locomotives which use this are called diesel-mechanical.
It has however, been found impossible to build a gearbox which can cope with a power output of more than 400 horsepower without breaking, despite a number of attempts to do so. Therefore this type of transmission is only suitable for low powered shunting locomotives, or lightweight multiple units or railcars.
For more powerful locomotives other types of transmission have to be used.
Diesel-electric
The most common form of transmission is electric; a locomotive using electric transmission is known as a diesel-electric locomotive. With this system, the diesel engine drives a generator; the electrical power produced then drives the wheels using electric motors. In effect, such a locomotive is an electric locomotive which carries its own generating station along with it.
Diesel-hydraulic
Alternatively, diesel-hydraulic locomotives use hydraulic transmission to convey the power from the diesel engine to the wheels. On this type of locomotive the power is transmitted to the wheels by means of a device called a torque converter. A torque converter consists of three main parts two of which rotate and one is fixed, all of which are sealed in a housing filled with oil.
The inner rotating part of a torque converter is called a centrifugal pump (or impellar), the outer part is called a turbine wheel (or driven wheel), between them is a fixed guide wheel, all of these parts have specially shaped blades to control the flow of oil.
The centrifugal pump is connected directly to the diesel engine, and the turbine wheel is connected to an axle which drives the wheels.
As the diesel engine rotates the centrifugal pump, oil is forced outwards at high pressure, the oil is forced through the blades of the fixed guide wheel and then through the blades of the turbine wheel, which causes it to rotate and thus turn the axle and the wheels, the oil is then pumped around the circuit again and again.
Diesel-hydraulic locomotives are slightly more efficient than diesel-electrics but are mechanically more complicated and more likely to break down. They are now greatly outnumbered by diesel-electrics.
Gas Turbine
Locomotives powered by gas turbines, were developed in many countries in the decades after World War II. These used jet-type engines (similar to the turboshaft engines in a turbine helicopter) driving an output shaft. The normal method of transmitting power to the wheels involved an electrical transmission similar to a diesel-electric locomotive -- the turbines running at constant speed driving a generator, feeding to large electric motors driving the wheels.
Gas turbine locomotives are very powerful, but also very noisy (they sounded rather like a jet aircraft). Their efficiency was quite low, but this was initially not a problem; fuel was cheap, and some gas turbines were fuelled with cheap 'Bunker C' heavy oil. This cheap fuel source vanished when improved refinery techniques allowed it to be 'cracked' into lighter petroleum grades. After the oil crisis in the 1970s and the rise in fuel costs, gas turbine locomotives became uneconomic to run, and many were taken out of service. This type of locomotive is now rare.
Electric
Electric locomotives are externally supplied with electric power, either through an overhead pickup or through a third rail. While the cost of electrifying track is rather high, electric trains and locomotives are significantly cheaper to run than diesel ones, and are capable of superior acceleration as well as regenerative braking, making them ideal for passenger service in densely populated areas. Almost all high-speed train systems (e.g. ICE, TGV, bullet train) use electric locomotives, because the power needed for such performance is not easily carried on board.
However in the 1970s British Rail in the United Kingdom, developed a high-speed diesel electric locomotive called the High Speed Train, which is capable of reaching speeds of up to 284 km/h (176 mph), although in service it only reaches speeds of 200km/h (125 mph).
The world speed record for a wheeled train was set in 1990 by a French TGV which reached a speed of 515 km/h (320 mph).
While recently designed electrified railway systems invariably operate on alternating current, many existing direct current systems are still in use—e.g. in South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, Netherlands (1500 V), Belgium (3000 V).
Magnetic Levitation
The newest technology in locomotives is magnetic levitation (maglev). These electrically powered trains have a special open motor which floats the train above the rail without the need for wheels. This greatly reduces friction. Very few systems are in service and the cost is very high. The experimental Japanese magnetic levitation train has reached 552 km/hr.
See also
- The Rocket
- Steam engine
- Diesel multiple unit
- Geared steam locomotive
- List of locomotive builders
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Locomotive."
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In physical chemistry and in engineering, "steam" refers to vaporized water, typically at a temperature well above its sea level-pressure boiling point of 100 ° Celsius. It is a pure gas, which at atmospheric pressure occupies about sixteen hundred times the volume of liquid water. A steam engine uses the expansion of water into steam to drive a piston and so to perform work. In other industrial applications steam is used as a repository of energy, which is introduced and extracted by heat transfer, usually through pipes. Steam is a capacious reservoir for energy because of water's high latent heat of evaporation.In common speach, "steam" most often refers to the white mist that condenses above boiling water as the hot vapor ("steam" in the first sense) mixes with the cooler air. After gaseous steam has intermixed with air, it is no longer properly called steam and is instead referred to as water vapor.
Also the nickname for Phil Shaw creator of the extreme sport extreme ironing.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Steam."
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A steam engine is a heat engine that makes use of the potential energy that exists as pressure in steam, converting it to mechanical work. Steam engines were used in pumps, locomotive trains and steam ships, and were essential to the Industrial Revolution. They are still used for electrical power generation.
A steam engine needs a boiler to boil water to produce steam under pressure. Any heat source can be used, but the most common is a wood or coal fire. The steam is allowed to expand by pushing against a piston or turbine, whose motion is used to do work.
The first steam device, the aeolipile, was invented by Heron of Alexandria, a Greek, in the 1st century AD, but used only as a toy. Denis Papin, a French physicist, built a working model of a steam engine after observing steam escaping from his pressure cooker in about 1679. Early industrial steam engines were designed by Thomas Savery (1698), Thomas Newcomen (1712), and James Watt (1769), each of whom added new refinements.
Early engines worked by the vacuum of condensing steam, whereas later types (such as steam locomotives, used the power of expanding steam.
Steam engines are of various types but most are reciprocal piston or turbine devices.
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrated the first functional self-propelled steam vehicle, his "steam wagon", in 1769. Arguably, this was the first automobile. Steam engine powered automobiles continued to compete with other motive systems into the early decades of the 20th century. However steam engines are less favored for automobiles, which are generally powered by internal combustion engines, because steam requires at least thirty seconds (in a flash boiler) or so to develop pressure.
On February 21, 1804 at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales, the first self-propelling railway steam engine or steam locomotive built by Richard Trevithick was first demonstrated.
The strength of the steam engine for modern purposes is in its ability to convert raw heat into mechanical work. Unlike the internal combustion engine, the steam engine is not particular about the source of heat.
A steam engine exhausting to atmosphere will have an efficiency (including the boiler) of 5% but with the addition of a condenser the efficiency is greatly improved to 25% or better. A power station with exhaust reheat, etc. will achieve 30% efficiency.
One source of inefficiency is that the condenser causes losses by being somewhat hotter than the outside world. Thus any closed-cycle engine will always be somewhat less efficient than any open-cycle engine, because of condenser losses.
Most notably, without the use of a steam engine nuclear energy could not be harnessed for useful work, as a nuclear reactor does not directly generate either mechanical work or electrical energy - the reactor itself simply heats water. It is the steam engine which converts the heat energy into useful work.
Also see
- Newcomen steam engine
- Watt steam engine
- Steam Locomotive for details of steam powered railway 'engines'
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Steam engine."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
STEAM | English | Stimulated Echo Acquisition Mode | Medicine, Physics |
| ST | English | Steam trawler | Insurance, Transportation |
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Synonym: SteamSynonym: steam clean (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bubble | Cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser; scud, messenger, rack, nimbus; cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus; cirrostratus, cumulostratus; cirrocumulus; mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky; curl cloud; frost smoke; thunderhead. |
Excitation | Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame. |
Furnace | Sudatory; Turkish bath, Russian bath, vapor bath, steam bath, sauna, warm bath; vaporarium. |
Oil burner, gas burner, Franklin stove, pot-bellied stove; wood-burning stove; central heating, steam heat, hot water heat, gas heat, forced hot air, electric heat, heat pump; solar heat, convective heat. | |
Gaseity | Elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus; cloud; ammonia, ammoniacal gas; volatile alkali; vacuum, partial vacuum. |
Misuse | Cut blocks with a razor, employ a steam engine to crack a nut; catch at a straw. |
Navigation | Ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam. |
Adverb: under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam; on the wing, in flight, in orbit. | |
Physical Energy | Phrase: the steam is up; vires acquirit eundo; "the race by vigor not by vaunts is won". |
Preparation | Prepare oneself; serve an apprenticeship; (learn); lay oneself out for, get into harness, gird up one's loins, buckle on one's armor, reculer pour mieux sauter, prime and load, shoulder arms, get the steam up, put the horses to. |
Redundancy | Send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere;kill the slain, " gild refined gold", "gild the lily", butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut; (waste). |
Smoothness | Roller, steam roller, lawn roller, rolling pin, rolling mill; sand paper, emery paper, emery cloth, sander; flat iron, sad iron; burnisher, turpentine and beeswax; polish, shoe polish. |
Vaporization | Verb: render -gaseous; vaporize, volatilize; distill, sublime; evaporate, exhale, smoke, transpire, emit vapor, fume, reek, steam, fumigate; cohobate; finestill. |
Velocity | Under press of sail, under press of canvas, under press of sail and steam; velis et remis, on eagle's wing, in double quick time; with rapid strides, with giant strides; a pas de geant; in seven league boots; whip and spur; ventre a terre; as fast as one's legs will carry one, as fast as one's heels will carry one; as fast as one can lay legs to the ground, at the top of one;s speed; by leaps and bounds; with haste. |
Waste | Waste its sweetness on the desert air ; cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel; labor in vain; (useless); cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | You know, if you stab a man in the dead of winter, steam will rise up from the wounds (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers) I had my swimming pool dug by an International Projects steam shovel (The Solid Gold Cadillac; writing credit: Abe Burrows; George S. Kaufman) Right, steam. A car that you could ride around in and not cause a stink (Five Easy Pieces; writing credit: Carole Eastman; Bob Rafelson) Submitted for your approval: a hugely talented writer-creator-producer who's run out of ideas, and a television show that's run out of steam and, let's face it, of budget (The Last Episode; writing credit: David Giammarco; Jeff Cowan) I'm going to use this steam pipe like an old-fashioned muzzle loader scatter a few stones create a diversion (MacGyver; writing credit: John Gorrie) | |
Lyrics | Steam in the subway, earth is a fire (Hungry Like the Wolf; performing artist: Duran Duran) You could have a steam train (Sledgehammer; performing artist: Peter Gabriel) Behind the steam table (Mr. Sellack; performing artist: The Roches) Subway steam, like silhouettes in dreams (6th Avenue Heartache; performing artist: The Wallflowers) | |
Clever | Why do steam irons have a permanent press setting? (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Six twin screwed steel steam cruisers. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Teen Steam (1988) Steam Whistle (1904) Sir Thomas Lipton's Steam Yacht 'Erin' (1899) Steam Launch of Olympia (1898) How It Works: Steam Train (1993) | |
Song Titles | Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye (performing artist: Steam) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | From an overhead angle, red diagonal letters reading: "Bake, broil, boil and steam foods instead of frying" sit on a grill. The letters are surrounded by fish, corn, beans and red/yellow peppers on a skewer. Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" July 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Original Station Winton North Base Mark displaced by steam shovel Triangulation party of E. O. Heaton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Steam winch with steel wire Steel wire for deepsea dredging was first used on the BLAKE The result of collaboration between Charles D. Sigsbee and Alexander Agassiz First use of steel wire for dredging, first deep ocean anchoring Agassiz transferred steel cable mining technology to oceanography. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Steam formed by lava entering the sea. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Mount Erebus blowing off a little steam. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Interior of the pilot-house, steam steering engine. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS", by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate VI, p. 111. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 51 (cont.) The HIRONDELLE II sounding machine used by Prince Albert I of Monaco. During the evolution of this machine, two important changes were made on the PRINCESS ALICE II which were used on this machine. The power was provide d by an electric motor, and the cable passed first through a winch before being wound on the reel. This machine kept the winch but returned to steam power. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Steam plow outfit. Credit: USDA. |
 | One of the co-inventors of Fantesk, chemist George Fanta prepares to make the substance with the use of a steam jet-cooking process. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |  | Black and White photo of a crew posing on an old train steam engine. Credit: Unknown. |
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| "Kitchen steam" by Luis Carlos Araujo Commentary: "N/a." | "Steam water pump" by Csongor Varga Commentary: "Old pumping station on the Tisza river. ." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Steam pressure being released. | | Steam whistle. |
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Charles Baudelaire | True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. |
Edwin Hubbel Chapin | Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. |
Henry Ward Beecher | 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. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Thereupon, steam and machinery revolutionised industrial production. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Nevertheless, and in spite of the fact that the tonnage of German shipping at present in existence is much less than that lost by the Allied and Associated Powers in consequence of the German aggression, the right thus recognised will be enforced on German ships and boats under the following conditions: The German Government, on behalf of themselves and so as to bind all other persons interested, cede to the Allied and Associated Governments the property in all the German merchant ships which are of 1,600 tons gross and upwards; in one-half, reckoned in tonnage, of the ships which are between 1,000 tons and 1,600 tons gross; in one-quarter, reckoned in tonnage, of the steam trawlers; and in one-quarter, reckoned in tonnage, of the other fishing boats. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1949) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | In the day ancient leaky radiators sent up columns of steam, loose connecting rods hammered and pounded |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I will not have my eyes put out and my ears spoiled by its smoke and steam and hissing |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | But steam may temporarily relieve symptoms of congestion associated with colds. (references) | |
Inhaling steam also has been proposed as a treatment of colds on the assumption that increasing the temperature inside the nose inhibits rhinovirus replication. (references) | ||
People whose normal lungs have been injured, such as from exposure to noxious gases, steam, or heat during a fire, can subsequently go into respiratory failure. (references) | ||
Business | Decorating power tools include steam wallpaper strippers, and powered paint rollers. (references) | |
The plant products 196 gigawatt hours of electricity and 492,000 tons of steam annually. (references) | ||
Older plants and steam turbines are losing share to gas turbines and combined cycle plants. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kenya | Hydro, geothermal and thermal steam provides the country with 864 MW of electric energy. (references) |
Taiwan | U.S. exports to Taiwan range from steam boilers to soybeans, and there are U.S. investors of all sizes. (references) | |
Chad | The construction sector is already starting to grow dramatically as the oil project begins to pick up steam. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined. The man who taketh a steam bath He loseth all the skin he hath, And, for he's boiled a brilliant red, Thinketh to cleanliness he's wed, Forgetting that his lungs he's soiling With dirty vapors of the boiling. Richard Gwow |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The many distressing accidents which have of late occurred in that portion of our navigation carried on by the use of steam power deserve the immediate and unremitting attention of the constituted authorities of the country. |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | Commerce, education, and rapid transit of thought and matter by telegraph and steam have changed all this. |
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| "Steam" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.86% of the time. "Steam" is used about 2,198 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.86% | 1,975 | 4,352 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.68% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.41% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.5% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Noun (common) | 0.55% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,198 | N/A |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Sado Steam Ship Co., Ltd. | United Kingdom | The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "steam": ahead steam ♦ anhydrous steam ♦ be full of steam ♦ blow off steam ♦ bust for steam ironing ♦ condensed steam ♦ covered with steam ♦ Dry steam ♦ employ a steam engine to crack a nut ♦ Exhaust steam ♦ flash steam ♦ flashed steam ♦ full steam ♦ full steam ahead ♦ full steam ahead! ♦ get the steam up ♦ get up steam ♦ High steam ♦ in full steam ♦ let off steam ♦ live steam ♦ Low steam ♦ mercurial steam gauge ♦ misty steam ♦ outside steam admission ♦ overheated steam ♦ pick up steam ♦ portable steam engine ♦ put on full steam ♦ raise steam ♦ sail full steam ahead ♦ saturated steam ♦ Semiportable steam engine ♦ ship's steam generator ♦ steam admission ♦ steam ahead ♦ steam along ♦ steam away ♦ steam bath ♦ steam blower ♦ steam boiler ♦ steam car ♦ steam carriage ♦ steam casing ♦ steam chest ♦ steam chimney ♦ steam chugging ♦ steam clean ♦ steam coal ♦ steam coil ♦ steam colors ♦ steam conducting ♦ steam cylinder ♦ steam distribution ♦ steam distributor ♦ steam dome ♦ steam drum ♦ steam engine ♦ steam extraction turbine ♦ steam filter ♦ steam fire engine ♦ steam fitter ♦ steam fitting ♦ steam fog ♦ steam gage ♦ steam gas ♦ steam gauge ♦ steam generating station ♦ steam generation ♦ steam gun ♦ steam hammer ♦ steam heat ♦ steam heater ♦ steam heating ♦ steam iron ♦ steam jacket ♦ steam line ♦ steam locomotive ♦ steam off ♦ steam organ ♦ steam over ♦ steam packet ♦ steam pipe ♦ steam pipeline ♦ steam plough ♦ steam plow ♦ steam port ♦ steam power ♦ steam power station ♦ steam pressing ♦ steam propeller ♦ steam pump ♦ steam roller ♦ steam room ♦ steam shovel ♦ steam table ♦ steam tables ♦ steam train ♦ steam trap ♦ steam tug ♦ steam turbine. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "steam": steam-age, steam-and-gravity, steam-based, steam-bath, steam-baths, steam-bending, steam-boats, steam-boiler, steam-box, steam-carriages, steam-charter, steam-clean, steam-cleaned, steam-cleaning, steam-clouded, steam-coal, steam-coated, steam-collecting, steam-compatible, steam-cylinder, steam-diesel, steam-distillation, steam-driven, steam-engendering, steam-engine, steam-engined, steam-engines, steam-filled, steam-generating, steam-generator, steam-generators, steam-groove, steam-hammer, steam-hammers, steam-haulage, steam-hauled, steam-heat, steam-heated, steam-heating, steam-heat-only, steam-house, steam-iron, steam-jacket, steam-jacketed, steam-jacketing, steam-laden, steam-launch, steam-mill, steam-operated, steam-organ, steam-packet, steam-palace, steam-pipes, steam-plough, steam-power, steam-powered, steam-presses, steam-pumps, steam-radio, steam-raising, steam-roll, steam-roller, steam-rollered, steam-rollering, steam-ship, steam-shop, steam-shovel, steam-slick, steam-smeared, steam-style, steam-tight, steam-town, steam-traction, steam-train, steam-trains, steam-tug, steam-turbine, steam-up, steam-valve, steam-worked, steam-wreathed, steam-xxxx. | |
Ending with "steam": air-steam, full-steam, ice-water-steam, laundry-steam, post-steam. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
steam engine | 2,271 | steam room | 111 |
steam | 1,199 | steam vapor cleaner | 105 |
steam bath | 889 | live steam | 105 |
teen steam | 874 | 2.0 steam | 103 |
steam locomotive | 862 | carpet steam cleaners | 103 |
steam cleaners | 569 | download steam | 95 |
steam cleaner | 473 | model steam engine | 86 |
steam train | 375 | steam irons | 84 |
steam donkey | 294 | steam valve | 82 |
boiler design small steam | 241 | cs steam | 79 |
iron steam | 228 | steam whistle | 79 |
steam shower | 219 | steam cleaning | 78 |
steam buggy | 194 | carpet steam cleaner | 76 |
counter steam strike | 173 | steam turbine | 74 |
steam boiler | 164 | steam turbines | 72 |
steam generator | 149 | 2.0 download steam | 71 |
hoover steam vac | 139 | essex steam train | 61 |
steam trap | 131 | steam pressure washer | 61 |
steam table | 131 | teen steam | 60 |
steam press | 118 | steam rooms | 55 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "steam"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nxjerr avull, ngrihem si avull, lëvizem me avull, energji (dash, drive, dynamism, energetics, energy, gumption, might, nerve, pepper, pith, power, push, strenuousness, vigor, vigour, vim, young blood, zip), avulli, avull (blur, exhalation, fume, reek, vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Arabic | فتح قلبه, نفس عن غضبه, قوة دافعة (momentum, motor), تبخر (evaporate, evaporation, vaporization, vaporize, volatility), طبخ بالبخار, إنطلق بسرعة (breeze, clip, fleet, fly, lick, prick, rocket, scat, scoot, scorch, scud, tear away), بخار (fume, halitosis, reek, vapor, vapour), بخر (cense, evaporate, fume, fumigate, vaporize), باخرة سفر. (various references) | |
Basque | lurrun (vapour). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | работя енергично, готвя на пара, запарвам (brew), пускам пара (blow off steam), попарвам (blight, damp, frost, infuse, kill, nip, perish, scald, touch, wither), парен (steamy, vapor, vaporous, vapour), пара (coin, exhalation, money, necessary, ready, reek, vapor, vapour), изчиствам с пара, изпущам пара (reek, smoke), изпарение (exhalation, fume, reek), движа се с пара. (various references) | |
Chinese | 蒸汽 . (various references) | |
Czech | pára (vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Danish | damp (vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Dutch | wasem (vapor, vapour), stoom (vapor, vapour), damp (fog, fume, mist, smoke, vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vaporo (vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Faeroese | guva (vapor, vapour), dampur (vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Farsi | دمه (Vapor), بخارکردن , بخاراب (Watervapor), بخاردادن , بخار (Gas, Haze, Reek). (various references) | |
Finnish | vesihöyry (water vapour). (various references) | |
French | vapeur. (various references) | |
Frisian | steam (vapor, vapour), damp (fog, fuzzy, mist, misty, moist, vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
German | Dampf (fume, vapor, vapour), dampfen (be full of steam, calm, dampen, depress, fume, lower, to steam). (various references) | |
Greek | αχνίζω (sizzle, smoke). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרץ (drive, energy, force, liveliness, nerve, rigour, sap, sinew, snap, spirit, strength, verve, vigour, vim), לאדות (evaporate, pot roast, stew, vaporize), להעלות אדים, לבשל באדים (pot roast), לנוע בכח הקטור, קיטור (vapor, vapour), קלוח (flow, gush, jet), אד (fume, gas, mist, vapor, vapour), הבל (blether, emptiness, futility, vanity, vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pára (aqueous vapour, critter, damp, fog, fume, haze, smoke, vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Icelandic | gufa (vapor, vapour), eimur (vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Indonesian | uap (vapour). (various references) | |
Italian | vapore (fume, fumes, haze, steamer, steamership, vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蒸気 (vapour), 蒸気 (vapour), 湯煙 , 湯気 (vapour), 湯気 (vapour), 水蒸気 (water vapour), スタンプ販売 (robot, stamp trading, steal, steam bath, steam engine, steam hammer, steam heater, steam iron, steam turbine, steel, steel collar worker, steel file, steel guitar, steel nail file, steel radial, steel sash, still). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいじょうき (water vapour), スチーム , ゆげ (vapour), ゆけむり, じょうき (above mentioned, beaten track, dizziness, information systems, proper course, rush of blood to the head, stipulation, vapour). (various references) | |
Korean | 증기 (fume, fumes). (various references) | |
Manx | gaal-vroie (braise), gaalaghey (evaporate, evaporation, exhale, vaporization, vaporize, volatilize), gaal (gale, vapour, vapour concentration), druight (dew, dewfall, fog), cur magh gaal (steaming). (various references) | |
Occitan | vapor (vapour). (various references) | |
Papiamen | damp (vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eamstay.(various references) | |
Polish | para (pair, vapor, vapour), opar (vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Portuguese | vapor (blur, fume, packet-boat, puff, reek, vapor, vapour), vapor de água (acqueous vapor, acqueous vapour, water vapor, water vapour). (various references) | |
Romanian | scoate lustrul, scoate abur, merge cu vapor, aburealã (damp, exhalation, fume, reek, vapor, vapour), aburi (dim, exhale, fumigate, mist, smoke, sweat), afuma (burn, corn, cure, deodorize, disinfect, fume, fumigate, gammon, perfume, pickle, reek, scent, smoke, smoke out, smoke-dry, smudge, sulphur), asuda (grind, reek, sweat, swelter, toil, transpire), bãga la etuvã, fierbe în aburi, abur (breath, breathing, breeze, damp, exhalation, fog, fume, haze, reek, smoke, smother, vapor, vapour), gãti în aburi, vapori, munci din rãsputeri (wire in), putere (authority, backbone, capacity, degree, depth, energy, force, greatness, hold, in, jurisdiction, keenness, masterdom, mastery, measure, might, mightiness, nerve, pith, potency, power, puissance, punch, reign, resistance, right, rulership, sap, stamina, strength, sturdiness, sway, vigor, vigorousness, vigour, vim), rãspândi abur, transforma în aburi, trece prin aburi, fumega (fume, reek, smoke). (various references) | |
Russian | томить (exhaust, stew), запотевать (fog up, sweat), превращаться в пар, паровой (fallow), парить пар, пар (fallow, reek, vapor, vapour), испарение (brume, evaporation, exhalation, fume, transpiration, vaporization, volatilization). (various references) | |
Scottish | toit (fume, smoke, vapour), deatach (exhalation, mist). ( |
