steamy

«steamy» in Mova's school dictionary: Full of steam, the hot water vapour: "a steamy bathroom" — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (steamy, steamier, steamiest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Full of steam, the hot water vapour: "a steamy bathroom". tree →

2) Hot and wet, like the air in a rainforest: "a steamy jungle". tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons, a steamy bathroom shows evaporation and condensation: steam meets the cold mirror and turns back into water drops. In geography, tropical places are hot and steamy. Phrases: steamy bathroom, steamy windows, hot and steamy.

examples

• The bathroom was steamy after my shower. tree →
• The windows were steamy, so I drew a smiley face. tree →
• The rainforest is hot and steamy. tree →
• A steamy bowl of soup sat on the table. tree →
• The kitchen got steamy while the pasta cooked. tree →
• Open a window to let the steamy air out. tree →

note

Comparative: steamier, steamiest. From "steam". Science: steam is actually invisible; the white cloud you see is tiny water drops that formed as it cooled. Safety: steam from a kettle can burn badly.

In the corpora

• In a steamy bathroom you turn on the fan and open the door after, because damp grows mould.
• After a steamy bath or shower, turn on the fan and open the door; damp air makes mould grow.
• Blowing on soup sweeps away the warm, steamy air above it, so more steam escapes and carries heat away.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «steamy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.