steam-heated

[ steem-hee-tid ]

adjective

1. heated by steam.

Word History and Origins

Origin of steam-heated¹

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Example Sentences

Dr. Anema noted, "Before we had vacuum-assisted evaporation, milk powders in the early twentieth century were manufactured by a roller-drying process involving boiling-hot milk being poured between two steam-heated revolving cylinders so that the water evaporated, leaving a thin sheet of dried milk that would have been milled and sieved."

From Science Daily

The steam-heated rooms can keep their temperature safely elevated without things like heat lamps, which can be dangerous.

From Washington Times

Kroll had rented space in a steam-heated, cockroach-infested building downtown before, so the new office felt palatial by comparison.

From Seattle Times

The server, facing a busy dining room and the slowly degrading dishes in her steam-heated cart, quickly rattles off the meats and vegetables stuffed inside each dumpling, as if the variations on shrimp and pork tell you much of anything about these handmade delicacies from southern China.

From Washington Post

“My plans included transferring to Columbia, but secretly I wanted to experience at first hand the steam-heated life of poetry and some other, seemingly connected fantasies of accelerated living,” he wrote in his autobiographical essay.

From New York Times