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steam | heat |

As an initialism steam

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As a noun heat is

(military) high explosive antitank: a munition using a high explosive shaped charge to breach armour.

steam

English

(wikipedia steam)

Noun

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  • 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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  • heat

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) hete, from (etyl) .

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Thermal energy.
  • * 2007 , James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition , pages 106–108:
  • Heat' and temperature, although different, are intimately related. [...] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of ' heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their temperatures would change?if the temperature of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
  • (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
  • (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
  • (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
  • (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
  • (uncountable, slang) The police.
  • (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
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  • (countable, baseball) A fastball.
  • (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
  • (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
  • (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
  • (countable) A hot spell.
  • (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
  • (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
  • Derived terms
    * heat capacity * heat death * heat engine * heat exchanger * heat lamp * heatproof * heat pump * heat rash * heat-resistant * heat-seeking * heat shield * heat sink * heatstroke * heat treatment * heatwave * in heat * on heat

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) heten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot (often with "up").
  • I'll heat up the water.
  • To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
  • * Shakespeare:
  • Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood.
  • To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
  • * Dryden:
  • A noble emulation heats your breast.
  • To arouse, to excite (sexually).
  • The massage heated her up.
    Synonyms
    * stoke * warm up * heat up; hot up,