steam

The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).

The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.

The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.

Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.

The act of cooking by steaming.

Give the carrots a ten-minute steam.

To cook with steam.

The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them.

To be cooked with steam.

The artichokes are steaming in the pot.

I'm steaming in this coat.

To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.

to steam wood or cloth

To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.

"We will give 198 a full exam. Then steam her, and operate her for the rest of the season.

To produce or vent steam.

See, ſee, my Brother's Ghoſt hangs hovering there, / O're his vvarm Blood, that ſteems into the Air, / Revenge, Revenge it cries.

I found that the Chapelon steamed almost too freely, because on a strange locomotive and road one usually tends to overfire a little through a natural lack of confidence.

Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.

Tom Earle, a CBC radio veteran now compiling audio archives in Ottawa, used to refer to the medium in which he worked as "steam radio"

Unlike the Web, old-fashioned steam television must be viewed in sequence in order to pick out those rare bits of useful information.