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# steam

noun (steam, uncountable); verb (steam, steams, steamed, steaming)

«steam» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Steam is the hot white mist that rises from boiling water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steam/#m1)
2. In science, steam is water as a gas (water vapour), made when water is heated to 100 °C. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steam/#m2)
3. To steam means to give off steam: the soup is steaming. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steam/#m3)
4. To steam food means to cook it over boiling water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steam/#m4)
5. Steam is the power from steam that drove old trains and engines. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steam/#m5)

### In the lessons

In science steam shows a change of state: liquid water boils and turns into gas; when steam touches a cold window it condenses back into water drops. In safety lessons steam is very hot and can burn: keep your face and hands away from kettles and pans, and open lids away from you. In history, steam engines powered trains and factories. Phrases: let off steam (to release energy or anger), run out of steam (to get tired), full steam ahead, steam train.

### Examples

- Steam rose from the kettle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steam/#x1)
- Keep your hand away from the steam; it can burn you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steam/#x2)
- Water turns into steam when it boils. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steam/#x3)
- The bathroom mirror was covered in drops after the steam from the shower. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steam/#x4)
- Mum steamed the broccoli. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steam/#x5)
- We rode on an old steam train. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steam/#x6)
- The children let off steam in the playground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steam/#x7)
- By the end of the race, I ran out of steam. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steam/#x8)

### Note

Uncountable: some steam (not «a steam»). Strictly, pure water vapour is invisible; the white cloud we call steam is tiny drops of water that have already cooled a little. Steam burns can be worse than hot water burns.

## In Jewish tradition

In Sefer Yetzirah's commentary it means water turned to vapor by heat, used to show how fire, water and air work together.

**Interpretation.** The commentator uses steam to show how the elements balance each other. This echoes the book's teaching that air is the balance between fire and water.

### Examples

- 41) Our author means to say that the water has a great disposition to unite itself with the caloric, thus for instance is the fire latent in steam, but the air equipoises them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/steam/#x1)

### Note

Uncountable: some steam (not «a steam»). Strictly, pure water vapour is invisible; the white cloud we call steam is tiny drops of water that have already cooled a little. Steam burns can be worse than hot water burns.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «steam» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steam/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«steam» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/steam.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «steam» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/steam/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«steam» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/steam.html) on Mova free.