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Brook vs Steam - What's the difference?

brook | steam |

In transitive terms the difference between brook and steam

is that brook is to bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object) while steam is to expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.

As verbs the difference between brook and steam

is that brook is to use; enjoy; have the full employment of while steam is to cook with steam.

As nouns the difference between brook and steam

is that brook is a body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream while steam is the vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase.

As a proper noun Brook

is {{surname|from=Middle English}} for someone living by a brook.

As an adjective steam is

old-fashioned; from before the digital age.

As an initialism STEAM is

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brook

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
  • To earn; deserve.
  • (label) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object ).
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
  • * 2005 , Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World , Harper:
    • Nevertheless, Garcilaso does claim that the Spaniards ‘who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians’.
    Derived terms
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
  • *Bible, (w) viii. 7
  • *:The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
  • *
  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
  • A water meadow.
  • Low, marshy ground.
    • Synonyms
    * beck * burn * coulee * creek * stream

    steam

    English

    (wikipedia steam)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) Any exhalation.
  • * Milton
    • a steam of rich, distilled perfumes

    Synonyms

    * (a steam-powered vehicle) steamer

    Derived terms

    * blow off steam * build up steam * steam bath * steamboat * steam boiler * steam condenser * steam distillation * steam engine * steam hammer * steam heater * steam iron * steam locomotive * steam power * steam-powered * steam railroad * steamroller * steamship * steam shovel * steam train * steam turbine * run out of steam * under one's own steam

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cooking) To cook with steam.
  • To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
    • to steam wood or cloth
  • To produce or vent steam.
  • * Dryden
    • My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, / O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air.
  • To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
  • * Boyle
    • The dissolved amber steamed away into the air.
  • (figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
  • (figuratively) To make angry.
    • It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
  • To be covered with condensed water vapor.
    • With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.
  • To travel by means of steam power.
    • We steamed around the Mediterranean.
  • * N. P. Willis
    • The vessel steamed out of port.
  • (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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=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.
    • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * steamer * steaming

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
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