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Definition: Steaming |
SteamingAdjective1. Emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist; "a steaming kettle"; "steaming towels". Adverb1. (used of heat) extremely; "the casserole was piping hot". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "steaming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Steaming is cooking by steam.Steaming is a preferred cooking method of health conscious individuals because no cooking oil is needed, resulting in a lower fat content. Steaming also results in a more nutritious food than boiling because fewer nutrients are destroyed or leached away into the water.
In western cooking, steaming is usually used to cook vegetables, and only rarely to cook meats. On the contrary, vegetables are seldom steamed in Chinese cuisine, vegetables are mostly stir fried or blanched instead. In Chinese cooking, steaming is used to cook many meat dishes, for example, steamed whole fish, steamed pork spare ribs, steamed pork or beef cake, steamed chicken, steamed goose etc. Other than meat dishes, many Chinese rice and wheat foods are steamed too. Examples include buns, Chinese steamed cakes etc. Steamed meat dishes (except some dim sum) are less common in Chinese restaurant than in traditional home cooking because meats usually require longer cooking time to steam than stir frying.
The Chinese chefs developed an efficient method of restaurant cooking. Big bamboo steaming baskets each three feet in diameter, four inches tall can be stacked up on top of a wok like a chimney. The bottom of each basket is a grid which allows the steam from the wok to rise all the way to the top of the stack. In kitchen of some dim sum restaurants, a steaming stack can be 20 levels high. The bottom level is removed when done and the entire stack simply shift downward. This technique ensures a constant supply of freshly steamed dim sum.
Steaming at home can be done with a wok. A shelf is put on the bottom of the wok. A small steam basket or a dish of food is put on the shelf. Water is filled to just below the dish or basket. Keep the water boiling with a lid on. Most vegetable dishes are done in approximately five minutes. Most meat dishes take longer than 20 minutes.
A common alternative is to put the dish on top of the rice being cooked. A pot of rice takes about 30 minutes to cook. The dish is ready when the rice is.
Specialized steamers are available in the market. Although they are more convenient, they are not necessarily better.
Steaming outdoors can be done by wrapping meat, poultry, or fish in banana leaves and burying it under the hot sand or ash. Meat and fish can also be covered in clay and placed in a fire.
- See also : Cooking
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Steaming."
Synonym: SteamingSynonym: piping (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vaporization | Vaporizer, still, retort; fumigation, steaming; bay salt, chloride of sodium. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Steaming |
| English words defined with "steaming": bone fat ♦ Camphor tree ♦ Pine wool ♦ steam, steam clean, steamed pudding, steamer ♦ Wash-off. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "steaming": AUTOCLAVE OPERATOR ♦ box-toe flanger, stitchdowns, BRUSH OPERATOR, bust for steam ironing ♦ CAKE WRAPPER, CONDITIONER TENDER, conditioning-room worker ♦ finishing tunnel operator ♦ GIG TENDER, gigger ♦ humidistat, humidity regulator, hygrostat ♦ MOLYBDENUM-STEAMER OPERATOR ♦ PLEATER, HAND, PRESSER, FORM, pressing-machine operator ♦ ravs, redemption, Re-demption, RING-MAKING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ steam conditioner, filling, steam-brush operator, STEAMER TENDER, STEAMING-CABINET TENDER ♦ TOE FORMER, STITCHDOWNS, toe laster, automatic, TUBE HANDLER ♦ yarn conditioner. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "steaming": Nidorous. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It turns to steaming piss (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan) Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness courtesy of whoever I swiped it from out of the cupboard (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | I'd pay the ransom note to stop it from steaming (Sour Girl; performing artist: Stone Temple Pilots) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Fleet Steaming Up North River (1898) Steaming (1985) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A glorious sunrise in the South Pacific as the RONALD H. BROWN is steaming towards the East. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | A man in a long apron guides a suspended barrel into a steaming vat. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Ship steaming into the harbor]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Forming a "wedge" formation while steaming off Chefoo, China, during the summer of 1905. Photographed from USS Dale (Destroyer # 4). The other ships present are (as numbered): 1. USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5); 2. USS Barry (Destroyer # 2); 3. USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3); and 4. USS Bainbridge (Destroyer # 1). The Flotilla was commanded by Lieutenant Dudley W. Knox. Credit: NAVY. |
 | British warships anchored off Portsmouth during the naval review held in honor of Queen Victoria's 50th year on the throne. Identifiable ships, all dressed with flags) include (from left to right): HMS Minotaur (with five masts), HMS Agincourt (with five masts), HMS Glatton (right center, in middle distance), HMS Black Prince (behind Glatton), and HMS Prince Albert (to the right of Glatton). A small yacht is steaming by in the right foreground. Credit: NAVY. |  | Initial letter "T" and fireplace with steaming kettle. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Woman demonstrating "steaming hot beach wieners" at stand shaded by umbrella. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Steaming car of migrant family en route to California at small town near Henrietta, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Production. Submarine chasers. Steaming a wooden section for a subchaser under construction at an Eastern boatyard. The wood, blackened by the steam, can now be bent to the required shape. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Noland Plumbing Co., Inc. Man working at steaming machinery. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Beer taps behind the counter, and in back the coffee urns, shiny and steaming with glass gauges showing the coffee level |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Choose low-fat and low-calorie cooking methods (broiling, steaming). (references) | |
Eat foods that have been thoroughly cooked and that are still hot and steaming. (references) | ||
Left-over foods or ready-to-eat foods, such as hot dogs, should be cooked until steaming hot before eating. (references) | ||
Business | Singapore's vibrant economy is now steaming along at pre-crisis levels. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religion, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it. We must awake Man's spirit from his sin, And take some special measure for redeeming it; Though hard indeed the task to get it in Among the angels any way but teaming it, Or purify it otherwise than steaming it. I'm awkward at Redemption -- a beginner: My method is to crucify the sinner. Golgo Brone |
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| "Steaming" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 65.40% of the time. "Steaming" is used about 263 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 65.4% | 172 | 23,722 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 30.42% | 80 | 37,112 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.66% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.52% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 263 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "steaming": steaming-up. | |
Ending with "steaming": combi-steaming. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "steaming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | ' (steamed), 騰騰 (scathing). (various references) | |
Danish | jorddesinfektion med damp (soil steaming, steam sterilization), dekateringsudstyr til farvning i overhedet damp/vanddamp (steaming equipment for dyeing in superheated steam). (various references) | |
Dutch | grondstomen (soil steaming, soil sterilisation, soil sterilization, steam sterilization). (various references) | |
Finnish | höyryävä (steamy). (various references) | |
French | fumant. (various references) | |
German | dampfende, dampfend (reeky). (various references) | |
Greek | που βγάζει ατμό, εκπέμπων ατμό, αχνίζων (piping hot). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gõzölgés (aura, exhalation). (various references) | |
Italian | sterilizzazione delsuolo da vapore (soil steaming, steam sterilization). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 'し , 空'し . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | からむし, むし (baseball with no outs, disregard, ignore, insect, selflessness, the remote beginnings, unselfish). (various references) | |
Korean | 찜. (various references) | |
Manx | gleashaght fo ghaal, gaalagh (steamy, vaporous), cur magh gaal (steam). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eamingstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | esterilização do solo a vapor (soil steaming, steam sterilization), equipamento de fixação do tingimento por vapor sobre-aquecido (steaming equipment for dyeing in superheated steam). (various references) | |
Romanian | fumegos (smoking), aburire (vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Russian | парить парообразование парящий. (various references) | |
Spanish | humeante (Reeky, smoky, steamy). (various references) | |
Swedish | jordsterilisering (soil steaming, soil sterilisation, soil sterilization, steam sterilization), jorddesinfektion (soil steaming, steam sterilization), ångning (soil steaming, steam sterilization), ånglåda för färgning i överhettad ånga (steaming equipment for dyeing in superheated steam), ånglåda för färgfixering med överhettad ånga (steaming equipment for dyeing in superheated steam). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Steaming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: staming, stamming, steamin, steming. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "steaming" (pronounced stē"ming) |
| 5 | -t ē" m i ng | teaming, teeming. |
| 4 | -ē" m i ng | beaming, dreaming, gleaming, redeeming, scheming, screaming, seeming, streaming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, stemming, storming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, taming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mangiest, mintages, misagent. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-m-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: easting, eatings, enigmas, etamins, gamiest, gamines, ingates, ingesta, inmates, magnets, masting, matings, mintage, seaming, seating, sigmate, tameins, teaming, teasing, tegmina. | |
-2 letters: ageism, ageist, agents, aments, amines, animes, easing, eating, enigma, etamin, gainst, gamest, gamine, gamins, gasmen, giants, images, ingate, ingest, inmate, inseam, magnet, manges, mantes, mantis, mating, matins, mesian, meting, misate, miseat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-m-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: demasting, emigrants, geminates, ligaments, magnesite, magnetics, magnetise, magnetism, mastering, misagents, miseating, streaming, umangites. | |
+2 letters: alignments, amnestying, assignment, centigrams, estimating, gemmations, germinates, glutamines, magnesites, magnetised, magnetises, magnetisms, magnetites, magnetizes, magnitudes, manganites, marginates, marketings, metalising, misseating, morganites, negativism, nightmares, restamping, ringmaster, signalment, smartening, smattering, stammering, stampeding, steamering, streamings, timesaving. | |
+3 letters: abridgments, alightments, assignments, charmingest, emigrations, empathising, ergotamines, gangsterism, garnishment, geminations, gentamicins, glutaminase, impregnants, impregnates, ligamentous, magnetising, magnetizers, malignities, manifesting, martingales, mastheading, metagenesis, misaltering, miscreating, misrelating, misteaching, mistreating, mutagenesis, negativisms, prestamping, regimentals, remastering, ringmasters, signalments, smatterings, stalemating, steelmaking, trigeminals. | |
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