steam

Steam rising from the street grates. (1, 2)

Meanings

The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase.
Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
The act of cooking by steaming
Internal energy for motive power.
Pent-up anger.
A steam-powered vehicle.
Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
Any exhalation.
Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.

To cook with steam.
To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
To produce or vent steam.
To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
To make angry.
To be covered with condensed water vapor.
To travel by means of steam power.
To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
To exhale.

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 *dʰew- ("to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke"). Cognate with Scots stem, steam, West Frisian steam ("steam, vapour"), Dutch stoom ("steam, vapour"), Low German stom ("steam"), Swedish dialectal stimma, Latin fūmus ("smoke, steam").

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