steam – English noun declension

English noun forms of steam

Noun: steam
Singularsteam
Pluralsteams

Sample Sentences

  • Give the carrots a ten-minute steam.
  • After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam.
  • Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em. [1927, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Ladies and Gentlemen, page 129:]
  • Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam.
  • Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and jettisoning the features that have given trouble, in particular the chain-driven valve-motion, should give the Southern a supply of highly-competent machines able to last out the remaining life of steam on the S.R. [1957 July 26, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 496:]
  • Steam also takes charge of South Eastern (former P.L.M.) trains from Paris to Marseilles and the Riviera from Lyons onwards, and of Western Region trains from Le Mans onwards, as also between Paris and Dieppe and Le Havre. [1958 July 26, 'Voyageur', “Modern French Locomotive Work—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 455:]
  • a steam of rich, distilled perfumes (Comus) [1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:]

Etymology

From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”). See: Dutch Nouns 'stoom', Latin Nouns 'fūmus'.

Verbs referencing "steam"

Spanish Nouns estín.