"steam engine" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: steam engines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} steam engine (plural steam engines)
  1. A piston engine driven by steam (as contrasted, for example, with a steam turbine). Translations (piston engine driven by steam): парна машина (parna mašina) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 蒸汽機 (Chinese Mandarin), 蒸汽机 (zhēngqìjī) (Chinese Mandarin), buv köçürici (Crimean Tatar), parní stroj [masculine] (Czech), parostroj [masculine] (Czech), dampmaskine [common-gender] (Danish), vapormaŝino (Esperanto), höyrykone (Finnish), mäntähöyrykone (Finnish), machine à vapeur [feminine] (French), Dampfmaschine [feminine] (German), ατμομηχανή (atmomichaní) [feminine] (Greek), વરાળયંત્ર (varāḷyantra) (Gujarati), höyrymašina (Ingrian), motore a vapore [masculine] (Italian), motrice [feminine] (Italian), locomotiva a vapore [feminine] (Italian), 蒸気機関 (jōki kikan) (alt: じょうききかん) (Japanese), dampmaskin [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), dampmaskin [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), Daumpkjätel [masculine] (Plautdietsch), maszyna f parowa (Polish), máquina a vapor [feminine] (Portuguese), mașină cu abur [feminine] (Romanian), парова́я маши́на (parovája mašína) [feminine] (Russian), парово́й дви́гатель (parovój dvígatelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), einnsean-smùide [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), parni stroj [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), parni stapni stroj [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), máquina de vapor [feminine] (Spanish), injini ya mvuke (Swahili), ångmaskin [common-gender] (Swedish), likhisog tubngaw (Tagalog), buhar makinesi (Turkish)
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  2. Any heat engine that uses steam as its primary working fluid to do mechanical work. Translations (any steam-driven heat engine): параво́з (paravóz) [masculine] (Belarusian), парна машина (parna mašina) [feminine] (Bulgarian), buv köçürici (Crimean Tatar), parní stroj [masculine] (Czech), parostroj [masculine] (Czech), dampmaskine [common-gender] (Danish), stoommachine [feminine] (Dutch), aurumasin (Estonian), höyrykone (Finnish), machine à vapeur [feminine] (French), ორთქლის მანქანა (ortklis mankana) (Georgian), Dampfmaschine [feminine] (German), ατμομηχανή (atmomichaní) [feminine] (Greek), gőzgép (Hungarian), höyrymašina (Ingrian), machina de vapor (Interlingua), motrice [feminine] (Italian), locomotiva a vapore [feminine] (Italian), máquina a vapor [feminine] (Portuguese), mașină cu abur (Romanian), парова́я маши́на (parovája mašína) [feminine] (Russian), einnsean-smùide [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), parni stroj [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), parostroj [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), máquina de vapor [feminine] (Spanish), buhar makinesi (Turkish)
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  3. (especially British) A steam locomotive. Tags: British, especially
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: employ a steam engine to crack a nut, honorary steam engine Related terms: steam power, steam tractor, steam locomotive, steam shovel, steam roller, portable engine, traction engine Coordinate_terms: boiler (english: steam boiler; what supplies steam to the engine or turbine)

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      "word": "mäntähöyrykone"
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "ατμομηχανή"
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      "word": "buhar makinesi"
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      "roman": "parna mašina",
      "sense": "any steam-driven heat engine",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "парна машина"
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      "code": "da",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "any steam-driven heat engine",
      "word": "aurumasin"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "any steam-driven heat engine",
      "word": "höyrykone"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "any steam-driven heat engine",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "machine à vapeur"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ortklis mankana",
      "sense": "any steam-driven heat engine",
      "word": "ორთქლის მანქანა"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "any steam-driven heat engine",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Dampfmaschine"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "atmomichaní",
      "sense": "any steam-driven heat engine",
      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "any steam-driven heat engine",
      "word": "mașină cu abur"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "parovája mašína",
      "sense": "any steam-driven heat engine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "парова́я маши́на"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "any steam-driven heat engine",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "einnsean-smùide"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "any steam-driven heat engine",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "parni stroj"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "any steam-driven heat engine",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "parostroj"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "any steam-driven heat engine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "máquina de vapor"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "any steam-driven heat engine",
      "word": "buhar makinesi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "steam engine"
}

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