adj
Giving off steam, water vapour or smoke.
n
The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
n
A hazardous situation where an attempt is made to extinguish semi-enclosed oil- or petrochemical-fuelled fire with water, generating steam which propels the burning fuel outwards.
n
The situation in which a fire overtakes the firefighters who are attempting to deal with it.
n
Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe.
n
The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
n
The outlet at the end of a hose which is designed to atomize, spray, or mist the contents flowing through the hose. Typical use includes gaseous materials such as nitrous oxide in automotive applications, as well as fuels for turbine engines.
n
A liquid stop valve in which the stopper is formed by locally freezing the stopped liquid itself.
v
(intransitive, informal) To increase in strength, popularity, or energy.
v
(transitive) To deliver using a hose.
n
A device used to create underwater shock waves by causing water to rush into a region of low pressure.
n
(medicine, surgery) A closed-suction medical device consisting of an internal drain connected to a grenade-shaped bulb via plastic tubing, commonly used for collecting bodily fluids from surgical sites.
n
Any of a number of devices that eject a pressurized stream of liquid.
v
(intransitive, of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
n
(firefighting) The sudden ignition of flammable gasses (produced by pyrolysis in an oxygen-poor environment) near the ceiling of a room or other enclosed space.
n
A deliberate release of pressure and vapor, such as from a steam engine, or bottling equipment.
n
(archaic) dry, superheated steam
n
(figuratively) Pent-up anger.
v
To bring (a steam engine) up to working steam pressure.
v
(organic chemistry) To crack using steam cracking.
v
To heat with the use of steam.
adj
Suitable for steaming.
n
(Britain, slang) An act of fellatio.
adj
Resembling steam or some aspect of it.
v
Obsolete form of steam. [(cooking, transitive) To cook with steam.]
adj
A form of combustion in which water is introduced into the combustion process and is immediately turned to steam, resulting in a water-laden combustion product.
n
The phenomenon of a fire rushing quickly up an inclined surface, due to a combination of the Coandă effect (which causes the fire to hug the inclined surface) and flashover (where the surface of a space near the fire — in this case the surface of the more elevated regions of the incline — is heated until it self-ignites).
v
(transitive) To control (flow) by means of a valve.
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