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 |
gainer full gainer | a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board |
full nelson | a wrestling hold in which the holder puts both arms under the opponent's arms and exerts pressure on the back of the neck (illegal in amateur wrestling) |
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 |
dress suit full dress tailcoat tail coat tails white tie white tie and tails | formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men |
full-dress uniform | the naval or military uniform that is specified by regulations to be worn on ceremonial occasions |
full metal jacket | a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper) |
full skirt | a long skirt gathered at the waist |
full-wave rectifier | rectifier that converts the negative half wave of an alternating current into a positive half wave |
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 |
full blood | descent from parents both of one pure breed |
full page | something that covers an entire page, the ad took up a full page |
full faith and credit | a guarantee to pay interest and principal on debt, usually issued by the United States Treasury |
period point full stop stop full point | a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations, in England they call a period a stop |
full house | a poker hand with of a kind and a pair |
complement full complement | number needed to make up a whole force, a full complement of workers |
commercial bank full service bank | a financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the public |
black body blackbody full radiator | a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it, a black body maintained at a constant temperature is a full radiator at that temperature because the radiation reaching and leaving it must be in equilibrium |
admiral full admiral | the supreme commander of a fleet, ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral |
cousin first cousin cousin-german full cousin | the child of your aunt or uncle |
full professor | a professor of the highest rank |
general full general | a general officer of the highest rank |
Japanese maple full moon maple Acer japonicum | leaves deeply incised and bright red in autumn, Japan |
a whole shebang whole kit and caboodle kit and caboodle whole kit and boodle kit and boodle whole kit whole caboodle whole works works full treatment | everything available, usually preceded by `the', we saw the whole shebang, a hotdog with the works, we took on the whole caboodle, for $ you get the full treatment |
full employment | the economic condition when everyone who wishes to work at the going wage rate for their type of labor is employed |
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 |
full moon full-of-the-moon full phase of the moon full | the time when the Moon is fully illuminated, the moon is at the full |
term full term | the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent, a healthy baby born at full term |
steam | cook something by letting steam pass over it, just steam the vegetables |
wax full | increase in phase, the moon is waxing |
full | make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering |
fill fill up make full | make full, also in a metaphorical sense, fill a container, fill the child with pride |
be full | be sated, have enough to eat, I'm full--don't give me any more beans, please |
steam steam clean | clean by means of steaming, steam-clean the upholstered sofa |
full | beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening, full the cloth |
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 |