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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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steam

/stiːm/

US pronunciation

American sound/stiːm/

steam

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Long vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> steam

Myanmar meaning

(n) ရေနွေးငွေ့

Full entry

steam /sti:m / n [U]

(က) ရေနွေးငွေ့။ steam coming out of a boiling kettle ❍ The laundry was full of steam. ❍ WATER n
(ခ) ရေနွေးငွေ့အား။ a steam brake/whistle
(ie worked by steam) ❍ the introduction of steam (ie machines driven by steam) in the 18th century.
v
၁။ အငွေ့ခြောင်းခြောင်းထွက်သည်။ ကျိုက်ကျိုက်
ဆူနေသည်။ steaming hot coffee
❍ The kettle was steaming (away) on the stove.
၂။ ပေါင်းသည်။ steamed pudding ❍ Steam the fish for 10 minutes. ❍ COOK
၃။ (က) ရေနွေးငွေ့အားဖြင့် ခုတ် မောင်းသည်။
a boat steaming up the Nile ❍ The train steamed into/out of the station. (ခ) ဗြုန်းခနဲ (ဝင်လာ၊ ထွက်သွား)သည်။ Jeff steamed into the room and apologized for being late.
❏ be/get (all) steamed up (about/over sth) [IDM ] (infml ) ရှူးရှူးရှားရှားဖြစ်သည်။ Calm down—it's nothing to get steamed up about!
❏ get up/pick up steam [IDM ]
၁။ (ယာဉ်) တဖြည်းဖြည်း အရှိန်ရလာသည်။
၂။ (infml ) အရှိန်ရလာသည်။ The election campaign is beginning to get up steam.
❏ let off steam [IDM ] (infml ) ဆူဆူညံညံ စိတ်လွတ် လက်လွတ်နေသည်။ The children were out in the playground letting off steam.
❏ run out of steam [IDM ] (infml ) အားမာန်ကုန်၍ အရှိန်ကျသွားသည်။ She was very keen on the plan at first but she seems to be running out of steam.
❏ steam engine n (ရေနွေးငွေ့ဖြင့်မောင်းသော) မီးရထား၊ မီးရထားစက်ခေါင်း။
❏ steam iron n ရေနွေးငွေ့မီးပူ။
❏ steam sth off (sth) [PHRV ] ရေနွေးငွေ့ပေး၍ ခွာသည်။ steam stamps off envelopes.
❏ steam sth open [PHRV ] ရေနွေးငွေ့ပေး၍ (စာအိတ်ကို) ဖွင့်သည်။ She steamed the envelope open and read the letter.
❏ steam shovel n (esp US ) ရေနွေးငွေ့မောင်း မြေတူးစက်။
❏ steam train n (ရေနွေးငွေ့မောင်း)မီးရထား။
a steam train enthusiast.
❏ steam (sth) up [PHRV ] ရေငွေ့ရိုက်သည်။ The car windows had steamed up.
❏ steamer n
၁။ မီးသင်္ဘော။
၂။ ပေါင်းအိုး။
❏ steamy adj
၁။ ရေနွေးငွေ့လွှမ်းသော။ ပူအိုက်စိုထိုင်းသော။ a steamy kitchen
❍ a steamy jungle.
၂။ (infml ) အပြာ
(ခန်း၊ ဇာတ်လမ်း စသည်)။ steamy love scenes.
❏ under one's own steam [IDM ] (infml ) အကူအညီ မယူဘဲ မိမိဘာသာမိမိ။ If I can't get a lift I'll have to get there under my own steam.

More examples

The steam from the volcano rose into the air.
A steam bath
Tom rubbed the steam from the window and peered outside.
The equipment was originally powered by steam.
The age of steam (=when trains were operated by steam)
A steam engine/locomotive/train

Synonyms

vapor, condensation, mist, haze, fog, spray, T-off, be beside oneself, be furious, be permeated by, be redolent of, be uncontrollable, bear heavily, become apparent, become known, become visible, bedew, beef, befog, blow a fuse, blow one's top, blowing one's top, boil, boil down, boil over, boiled down, boiling over, braise, braised, browned, browning, bummed, bumming, calorify, champ at bit, coddle, come forth, come into view, come on the scene, come to light, cook, crop up, cut to bone, cut to the bone, decoct, decocted, deep fry, deviling, distill, drive up the wall, emerge, energy, enflame, escallop, exhale, fly off the handle, foam at mouth, force, force down, french fry, fricassee, frizzle, frizzled, frizzling, frothing, get one's goat, get to meat, get to the meat, give off odor, go berserk, grow hot, grow warm, hacked, hacking, have a fit, have a tantrum, have an odor, hazing, heat, humidify, in flames, iron, ironing, lay, let off steam, let out, look daggers, make a fuss over, make appearance, massed, massing, might, mizzle, mizzling, moisten, moisturize, muscle, overcloud, overclouded, oxidate, panfry, parboil, peeve, pin down, planed, poach, potency, power, press, press out, pressing out, pressure-cook, puissance, rage, rail at, rain on, raise the temperature, rant and rave, reek, reheat, reheating, romp, sauteed, sautÃ©, scald, set fire, set on fire, setting fire, sinew, smelted, smelting, smoking, smolder, snap at, sog, spring up, squeeze out, squeezed out, squeezing out, steamed, strength, sunning, tepefy, throw a fit, throwing a fit, toff, unwrinkle, unwrinkled, vigor, vim, warm up, warming up, waterlog, work oneself into sweat

Antonyms

disability, enervation, impotence, inability, incompetence, lethargy, powerlessness, weakness

Cross references

vapor condensation mist haze fog spray T-off be beside oneself be furious be permeated by be redolent of be uncontrollable bear heavily become apparent become known become visible bedew beef befog blow a fuse blow one's top blowing one's top boil boil down boil over boiled down boiling over braise

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