different between steam vs flatten

English

Etymology

From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English st?am (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ew- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin f?mus (“smoke, steam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti?m/

Noun

steam (usually uncountable, plural steams)

1. The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase.
2. Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
3. The act of cooking by steaming

4. (figuratively) Internal energy for motive power.
   • 1927, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Ladies and Gentlemen (page 129)

     Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em.

5. (figuratively) Pent-up anger.

6. A steam-powered vehicle.
7. Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
8. (obsolete) Any exhalation.
9. (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.

Synonyms

• (a steam-powered vehicle): steamer

Antonyms

• (fencing): electric

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

steam (third-person singular simple present steams, present participle steaming, simple past and past participle steamed)

1. (cooking, transitive) To cook with steam.

2. (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.

3. (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, / O're his warm blood, that steams into the air.
4. (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Unsuccessfulness of Experiments

     the dissolved amber was plainly discernable swimming like a thin film upon the surface of the liquor, whence, little by little, it steamed away into the air.

5. (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
6. (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.

7. (intransitive) To be covered with condensed water vapor.

8. (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
9. (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
10. (obsolete) To exhale.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:cook

Derived terms

• asteam
• steamer
• steaming
• steam up

Translations

Adjective

steam (not comparable)

1. Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.

Anagrams

• AEMTs, MTase, Mesta, Satem, a-stem, mates, matse, matés, meats, metas, satem, stame, tames, teams

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *staumaz, compare also Dutch stoom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stæ???m/

Noun

st?am m

1. steam (water vapor)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *staumaz.

Noun

steam c (no plural)

1. steam

   Synonym: stoom

Further reading

• “stoom”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

From flat +? -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flæt?n/
• Rhymes: -æt?n

Verb

flatten (third-person singular simple present flattens, present participle flattening, simple past and past participle flattened)

1. (transitive) To make something flat or flatter.

2. (reflexive) To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
3. (transitive) To knock down or lay low.

4. (intransitive) To become flat or flatter; to plateau.

5. (intransitive) To be knocked down or laid low.
6. (music) To lower by a semitone.
7. To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
8. (programming, transitive) To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.
9. (computer graphics, transitive) To combine (separate layers) into a single image.

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