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Word Meanings - STEAMSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.

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  • POWERFUL
    Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
  • POWERABLE
    1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
  • PROPELLER
    1. One who, or that which, propels. 2. A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel. 3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
  • STEAM
    smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or 1. The elastic, aƫriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. 2. The mist formed by condensed vapor;
  • SEAGOING
    Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels.
  • STEAMBOAT
    A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
  • VESSELFUL
    As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
  • STEAM ENGINE
    An engine moved by steam. Note: In its most common forms its essential parts are a piston, a cylinder, and a valve gear. The piston works in the cylinder, to which steam is admitted by the action of the valve gear, and communicates motion to the
  • STEAMSHIP
    A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.
  • STEAMY
    Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty. Cowper.
  • POWERLESS
    Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
  • STEAMINESS
    The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.
  • STEAMBOATING
    The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards. Knight. (more info) 1. The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.
  • STEAMER
    The steamer duck. Steamer duck , a sea duck (Tachyeres cinereus), native of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, which swims and dives with great agility, but which, when full grown, is incapable of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called also
  • POWER
    See FISH
  • VESSEL
    Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. (more info) vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, 1. A hollow or concave utensil for
  • CANDLE POWER
    Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
  • IMPOWER
    See EMPOWER
  • AIR VESSEL
    A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheƦ, of plants spiral
  • POLICE POWER
    The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers
  • DISEMPOWER
    To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
  • DEWAR VESSEL
    A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according
  • EMPOWER
    1. To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize ; as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor. 2. To give
  • TRUNK STEAMER
    A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.
  • UNPOWER
    Want of power; weakness. Piers Plowman.
  • TURRET STEAMER
    A whaleback steamer with a hatch coaming, usually about seven feet high, extending almost continuously fore and aft.
  • CONCERT OF THE POWERS
    An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

 

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