steam something up

Examples of steam

steam
Preliminary tests using moistened or steamed sweaty socks seemed to induce an attractancy even greater than that reported above.
In these cases a 'negative' energy wave interacts with a 'positive' energy wave in the presence of background steaming to give rise to instability.
A beaker and a flask steamed on the bench beside him as he spoke.
There, presently, sustained by appropriated wines and provision in the great hall, steaming before replenished fires, the victors considered the situation.
A crowd of his adherents gathered at the wharf and, as the vessel steamed down the harbour, they ran along the sides.
If this nutrient loss is to be avoided, practicable technologies for steaming and feeding potatoes must be established in order to minimize labor costs.
The beans were steamed in the retort, at atmospheric pressure.
As for the commercial production the steel machine components were normally washed and immersed in hot water after each procedure, and plastic components were washed and steamed.
Once fried or steamed, the sardines were left to cool and dry because if they were introduced hot into the cans their skins would rupture, producing a poor-quality product.
After this period, the site seemed to run out of steam.
Others are convinced that silicon is running out of steam.
Later they changed to steam power, using the coal which was mined locally.
The advances in water and steam power in the eighteenth century depended on this scientific base.
In facility heat treatments, gas, electric or steam heaters are used to slowly heat the ambient air.
Interviews with bureaucrats serving in the mid and late 70s indicate that land reforms had lost steam.
See all examples of steam
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations withsteam

steam

These are words often used in combination with steam.

Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.

cloud of steam
Suspended above the cooling towers there is an enormous white cloudofsteam which is simply heating the sky and inducing all kinds of undesirable effects elsewhere.
From the
Hansard archive