Dictionary entry

Steam engine

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Myanmar Meaning

အင်အားထုတ်ပေးရန် ရေနွေးငွေ့ကို အသုံးပြုရသည့် အင်ဂျင်စက်။ ရေနွေးငွေ့ အင်ဂျင်စက်တပ်ထားသည့် မီးရထားစက်ခေါင်း။

Definition

steam /sti:m / n [U] (က) ေရေႏြးေငြ႕။ steam coming out of a boiling kettle ❍ The laundry was full of steam. ❍ WATER n (ခ) ေရေႏြးေငြ႕အား။ a steam brake/whistle (ie worked by steam) ❍ the introduction of steam (ie machines driven by steam) in the 18th century. v ၁။ အေငြ႕ေျခာင္းေျခာင္းထြက္သည္။ က်ဳိက္က်ဳိက္ ဆူေနသည္။ steaming hot coffee ❍ The kettle was steaming (away) on the stove. ၂။ ေပါင္းသည္။ steamed pudding ❍ Steam the fish for 10 minutes. ❍ COOK ၃။ (က) ေရေႏြးေငြ႕အားျဖင့္ ခုတ္ ေမာင္းသည္။ a boat steaming up the Nile ❍ The train steamed into/out of the station. (ခ) ျဗဳန္းခနဲ (ဝင္လာ၊ ထြက္သြား)သည္။ Jeff steamed into the room and apologized for being late. ❏ be/get (all) steamed up (about/over sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ႐ႉး႐ႉးရွားရွားျဖစ္သည္။ Calm down—it's nothing to get steamed up about! ❏ get up/pick up steam [ IDM ] ၁။ (ယာဥ္) တျဖည္းျဖည္း အရိွန္ရလာသည္။ ၂။ ( infml ) အရိွန္ရလာသည္။ The election campaign is beginning to get up steam. ❏ let off steam [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဆူဆူညံညံ စိတ္လြတ္ လက္လြတ္ေနသည္။ The children were out in the playground letting off steam. ❏ run out of steam [ IDM ] ( infml ) အားမာန္ကုန္၍ အရိွန္က်သြားသည္။ She was very keen on the plan at first but she seems to be running out of steam. ❏ steam engine n (ေရေႏြးေငြ႕ျဖင့္ေမာင္းေသာ) မီးရထား၊ မီးရထားစက္ေခါင္း။ ❏ steam iron n ေရေႏြးေငြ႕မီးပူ။ ❏ steam sth off (sth) [ PHRV ] ေရေႏြးေငြ႕ေပး၍ ခြာသည္။ steam stamps off envelopes. ❏ steam sth open [ PHRV ] ေရေႏြးေငြ႕ေပး၍ (စာအိတ္ကို) ဖြင့္သည္။ She steamed the envelope open and read the letter. ❏ steam shovel n ( esp US ) ေရေႏြးေငြ႕ေမာင္း ေျမတူးစက္။ ❏ steam train n (ေရေႏြးေငြ႕ေမာင္း)မီးရထား။ a steam train enthusiast. ❏ steam (sth) up [ PHRV ] ေရေငြ႕႐ိုက္သည္။ The car windows had steamed up. ❏ steamer n ၁။ မီးသေဘၤာ။ ၂။ ေပါင္းအိုး။ ❏ steamy adj ၁။ ေရေႏြးေငြ႕လႊမ္းေသာ။ ပူအိုက္စိုထိုင္းေသာ။ a steamy kitchen ❍ a steamy jungle. ၂။ ( infml ) အျပာ (ခန္း၊ ဇာတ္လမ္း စသည္)။ 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.

Examples

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