Turkish bath steam bath vapor bath vapour bath | you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower |
steam fitting | care (installation and maintenance) of equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating |
boiler steam boiler | sealed vessel where water is converted to steam |
calliope steam organ | a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard |
steam bath steam room vapor bath vapour bath | a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe, `vapour bath' is a British term |
steam chest | the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder |
steam engine | externalombustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder |
steam heat steam heating | a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators |
steam iron | a pressing iron that can emit steam |
steam line steam pipe | a pipe conducting steam |
steam locomotive | a locomotive powered by a steam engine |
steam shovel | a power shovel that is driven by steam |
steam turbine | turbine in which steam strikes blades and makes them turn |
steam whistle | a whistle in which the sound is produced by steam, usually attached to a steam boiler |
angular velocity | (physics) the rate of change of the angular position of a rotating body, usually expressed in radians per second or radians per minute |
steam coal | coal suitable for use under steam boilers |
steam | water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere |
live steam | steam coming from a boiler at full pressure |
speed velocity | distance travelled per unit time |
escape velocity | the minimum velocity needed to escape a gravitational field |
muzzle velocity | the velocity of a projectile as it leaves the muzzle of a gun |
peculiar velocity | velocity with respect to the local standard of rest |
radial velocity | velocity along the line of sight toward or away from the observer |
terminal velocity | the constant maximum velocity reached by a body falling through the atmosphere under the attraction of gravity |
steam | cook something by letting steam pass over it, just steam the vegetables |
steam steam clean | clean by means of steaming, steam-clean the upholstered sofa |
steam | get very angry, her indifference to his amorous advances really steamed the young man |
steamer steam | travel by means of steam power, The ship steamed off into the Pacific |
steam | rise as vapor |
steam-heat | heat by means of steam |
steam | emit steam, The rain forest was literally steaming |
high-speed high-velocity | operating at high speed, a high-speed food processor, a high-velocity shell |
steam-powered | powered by a steam engine, a steam-powered locomotive |