Usually means: Water vapor from heated liquid.
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  1. steams: Merriam-Webster
  2. steams: Collins English Dictionary
  3. steams: Vocabulary.com
  4. Steam's, Steams, steams: Wordnik
  5. steams: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. steams: Wiktionary
  7. steams: Dictionary.com
  8. steams: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. steams: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (STEAM)

noun:  The vapor formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase.
noun:  The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air
noun:  mist, fog
noun:  Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation
noun:  Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
noun:  The act of cooking by steaming.
noun:  (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
noun:  (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
noun:  A steam-powered vehicle.
noun:  Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
noun:  (obsolete) Any exhalation.
noun:  (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
verb:  (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
verb:  (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
verb:  (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
verb:  (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
verb:  (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
verb:  (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
verb:  (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
verb:  (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
verb:  (obsolete) To exhale.
adjective:  Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
noun:  Initialism of serial time-encoded amplified microscopy. [(electronics) A very fast real-time optical imaging technique.]
noun:  Abbreviation of science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics. [(countable) A particular discipline or branch of knowledge that is natural, measurable or consisting of systematic principles rather than intuition or technical skill.]
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