Steam vs Stern - What's the difference?
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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.
(figuratively) Pent-up anger.
A steam-powered vehicle.
Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
(obsolete) Any exhalation.
* Milton
(cooking) To cook with steam.
To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
To produce or vent steam.
* Dryden
To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
* Boyle
(figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
(figuratively) To make angry.
To be covered with condensed water vapor.
To travel by means of steam power.
* N. P. Willis
(figuratively, or, literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
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(obsolete) To exhale.
Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
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Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
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* (William Wordsworth)
(nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
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* (William Shakespeare)
The hinder part of anything.
The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
(l) (luminous dot appearing in the night sky)
As an initialism steam
is .As a noun stern is
a star; a small luminous dot that can be seen on the night sky.steam
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(wikipedia steam)Noun
(-)- After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam .
- Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam .
- a steam of rich, distilled perfumes
Synonyms
* (a steam-powered vehicle) steamerDerived 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 steamVerb
(en verb)- to steam wood or cloth
- My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, / O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air.
- The dissolved amber steamed away into the air.
- It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
- With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.
- We steamed around the Mediterranean.
- The vessel steamed out of port.
- If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.
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- (Spenser)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* steamer * steamingAdjective
(-)stern
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) stern, sterne, sturne, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- stern as tutors, and as uncles hard
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- these barren rocks, your stern inheritance
Etymology 2
Most likely from (etyl) , from the same Germanic root.Noun
(wikipedia stern) (en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern', just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the ' stern .}}
- and sit chiefest stern of public weal
- (Spenser)