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 |
saturated fatty acid | a fatty acid whose carbon chain cannot absorb any more hydrogen atoms, found chiefly in animal fats |
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 |
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 |
saturated pure | (of color) being chromatically pure, not diluted with white or grey or black |
saturated | used especially of organic compounds, having all available valence bonds filled, saturated fats |
saturated concentrated | being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature, unable to dissolve still more of a substance, a saturated solution |
steam-powered | powered by a steam engine, a steam-powered locomotive |