Crossword clues for steaming
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steam \Steam\ (st[=e]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Steamed (st[=e]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Steaming.]
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To emit steam or vapor.
My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air.
--Dryden.Let the crude humors dance In heated brass, steaming with fire intense.
--J. Philips. -
To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.
The dissolved amber . . . steamed away into the air.
--Boyle. -
To move or travel by the agency of steam.
The vessel steamed out of port.
--N. P. Willis. To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.
Wiktionary
1 Giving off steam 2 Extremely drunk 3 Very angry n. 1 The action of steam on something. 2 The method of cooking by immersion in steam. 3 (context UK informal English) A form of robbery in which a large gang moves swiftly and violently through a bus, train, etc.; see (w: Steaming (crime)). v
(present participle of steam English)
WordNet
adj. emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist; "a steaming kettle"; "steaming towels"
adv. (used of heat) extremely; "the casserole was piping hot" [syn: piping]
Wikipedia
Steaming is a method of cooking using steam. This is often done with a food steamer, a kitchen appliance made specifically to cook food with steam, but food can also be steamed in a wok. In the American southwest, steam pits used for cooking have been found dating back about 10,000 years. Steaming is considered a healthy cooking technique that can be used for many kinds of food.
Steaming is a form of cooking that uses steam as the main heating method.
Steaming can also refer to:
- drunkenness
- Soil steam sterilization
- Steaming (film), a 1985 film directed by Joseph Losey
- Steaming (play), a play by Nell Dunn
- Steaming (crime), robbery on a train or bus, usually perpetrated by a gang, often violent
- Someone who is extremely angry and upset
- A song appearing on Sarah McLachlan's 1988 debut album Touch
- using a steam engine, particularly operating a ship powered by steam.
Steaming is the last film directed by Joseph Losey, released in 1985, the year after his death. It was adapted from Nell Dunn's play of the same name by Dunn and Patricia Losey. It was also the last film of actress Diana Dors, who died in 1984. The film was screened out of competition at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. The story centered on three women who meet regularly in a steam room and decide to fight its closure. The cast was headed by Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles, along with Brenda Bruce, Felicity Dean and Dors, among others.
In UK slang, steaming is a robbery performed on train or bus passengers by a gang or large group and often involving some level of violence. It is often used interchangeably with mugging, referring to a specific subcategory of that crime. Several cases have been reported on the London Underground and other city public transport systems although not exclusively localised to them. It may also be applied to other theft such as shoplifting, involving a large group employing distraction tactics, intimidation or actual violence against staff. In general, the term refers to the operation in a large group and the use of intimidation and violence to commit theft.
Steaming is a 1981 play written by English playwright Nell Dunn first staged at Theatre Royal, Stratford, in London. It won the 1981 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy (at the time known as the Society of West End Theatre Award for Best New Comedy). During 2010, Jally Entertainment toured Australia with the play, starring Val Lehman (Prisoner) and Alli Pope.
Usage examples of "steaming".
Twenty minutes later, Jake sat waist-deep in a steaming galvanized iron bath, set out alfresco under the mahogany trees.
Our waiter returned with the coffee and desserts, and right as he was pouring a steaming cup for Elizabeth, the beeper on my belt went off.
When Osman and al-Noor reached his double storeyed house in the south quarter, which lay between the Beit el Mai, the treasury, and the slave market, dawn was breaking and a dozen of his aggagiers were sitting in the courtyard being fed by the house slaves a breakfast of honey-roasted lamb and dhurra cakes with steaming pots of syrupy black Abyssinian coffee.
Poet was steaming, Byglave was shouting, Besar was like an anthill some fool put the boot to.
Steaming along came an ocean monitor, a bigger version of the river craft the USA and CSA both used: basically, one battleship turret mounted on a raft.
Although it was lying fairly Aat, the blob was slightly larger than a human being, and it had spread across the bridge in a pile of steaming ooze.
Below there was a reserve of speed that would allow her to close with Blucher in fifty minutes of steaming always -A provided she was not smashed into a fiery shambles long before.
Mugza offered, accepting a steaming bowl of mud soup from Brockle Buhn.
First the bowls were filled with the steaming cawl, and then the wooden platters were heaped with the pink slices of home-cured bacon, and mashed up cabbages.
His nose led him to a panetteria where stevedores were already buying hot ciabatta, before going on to a stall where a butcher was selling liver and tripe ragout from a steaming pot, at a copper a dip of the loaf.
He plucked the steaks from the salted pan, set them steaming on two big metal plates, and deglazed the pan with whiskey.
His eyes flickered momentarily to Dor, then back to the steaming metal.
I knew it was a good place because of the menu, part of which I could see steaming away on a centre table: roast duckling dripping with orange sauce.
The meal always ended with steaming pork-and-cabbage dumplings, all handmade by our niang.
She paused, and Saken and Erdene picked up the kettle and poured steaming water down over the wool, hair, and mat, soaking every inch.