steam engine

See also: steam-engine

English

Barring steam engine at the Bolton Steam Museum - barring engine.

Steam locomotive wheels, valve & engine animation. Steam goes into the right side of the cylinder (item 7) and pushes the piston to the left.

Pronunciation

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Noun

steam engine (plural steam engines)

2. Any heat engine that uses steam as its primary working fluid to do mechanical work.

   Hypernyms: engine < device, machine

   Hyponym: steam turbine

   Coordinate terms: water engine, wind engine, horse engine, donkey engine

   2. (usually) A piston engine driven by steam.

      Synonym: fire engine (archaically synonymous)

      Coordinate term: steam turbine

4. (especially UK) A steam locomotive.

Hyponyms

• overhead engine

Coordinate terms

• boiler (steam boiler) (what supplies steam to the engine or turbine)

Derived terms

• employ a steam engine to crack a nut
• honorary steam engine

Related terms

• steam locomotive
• steam power
• steam roller
• steam shovel
• steam tractor

Translations

piston engine driven by steam

• Bulgarian: парна машина f (parna mašina)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒸汽機 / 蒸汽机 (zh) (zhēngqìjī)

• Crimean Tatar: buv köçürici
• Czech: parní stroj (cs) m, parostroj m
• Danish: dampmaskine c
• Esperanto: vapormaŝino (eo)
• Finnish: höyrykone (fi), mäntähöyrykone
• French: machine à vapeur (fr) f
• Georgian: ორთქლის მანქანა (ortklis mankana), ორთქლის ძრავა (ortklis ʒrava)
• German: Dampfmaschine (de) f
• Greek: ατμομηχανή (el) f (atmomichaní)
• Gujarati: વરાળયંત્ર (varāḷyantra)
• Ingrian: höyrymašina
• Italian: motore a vapore (it) m, motrice (it) f, locomotiva a vapore (it) f
• Japanese: 蒸気機関 (ja) (じょうききかん, jōki kikan)
• Korean: 증기기관(蒸氣機關) (jeunggigigwan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dampmaskin m

  Nynorsk: dampmaskin m or f

• Plautdietsch: Daumpkjätel m
• Polish: maszyna parowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: máquina a vapor f
• Romanian: mașină cu abur f
• Russian: парова́я маши́на (ru) f (parovája mašína), парово́й дви́гатель (ru) m (parovój dvígatelʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: einnsean-smùide m
• Serbo-Croatian: parni stroj m, parni stapni stroj m
• Spanish: máquina de vapor (es) f
• Swahili: injini ya mvuke
• Swedish: ångmaskin (sv) c
• Tagalog: likhisog tubngaw
• Turkish: buhar makinesi (tr)

any steam-driven heat engine

• Belarusian: параво́з m (paravóz)
• Bulgarian: парна машина f (parna mašina)
• Crimean Tatar: buv köçürici
• Czech: parní stroj (cs) m, parostroj m
• Danish: dampmaskine c
• Dutch: stoommachine (nl) f
• Estonian: aurumasin
• Finnish: höyrykone (fi)
• French: machine à vapeur (fr) f
• Georgian: ორთქლის მანქანა (ortklis mankana)
• German: Dampfmaschine (de) f
• Greek: ατμομηχανή (el) f (atmomichaní)
• Hungarian: gőzgép (hu)
• Ingrian: höyrymašina
• Interlingua: machina de vapor
• Italian: motrice (it) f, locomotiva a vapore (it) f
• Polish: maszyna parowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: máquina a vapor f
• Romanian: mașină cu abur
• Russian: парова́я маши́на (ru) f (parovája mašína)
• Scottish Gaelic: einnsean-smùide m
• Serbo-Croatian: parni stroj m, parostroj (sh) m
• Spanish: máquina de vapor (es) f
• Turkish: buhar makinesi (tr)

steam locomotive — see steam locomotive

See also

• portable engine
• traction engine