steam generator
nounRail equipment
A type of boiler fitted in a diesel locomotive or another rail vehicle, which provided steam heating in steam-heated passenger trains that had previously been hauled by steam locomotives.
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steam locomotive
nounRail equipment
A locomotive, usually for use on a railway, that is powered by steam.
steam shovel
An excavating machine designed to effect a shovelling action through steam power.
steek
The bridge of extra stitches used in the steeking technique.
steel
Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
steelwork
nounConstruction
All the steel components of a structure.
steely-eyed missile man
An astronaut or engineer who quickly comes up with a solution to a difficult problem while under extreme pressure.
steep-slope roof
nounConstruction
According to ASTM standard E 1918-97, a roof whose uppermost part is installed at a slope of 2:12 (9.5 degrees) or more.
steering column
nounAutomotive
a column originating in the dashboard and ending at the steering wheel
steering wheel spinner knob
nounAutomotive
An adapted driving device that attaches a spinnable knob to the steering wheel, allowing free spinning for those who can only grip the wheel with one limb, to be well attached to the wheel and allow the wheel to turn fully while gripped.
Steiner point
One vertex of a Steiner tree.
stem
The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
stempel
A shelf set into a mineshaft for storing waste material, or for use as a step or support.
stench trap
nounPlumbing
A device to prevent foul air from rising from the openings of sewers, drains, etc., by means of a water seal.
stenopaeic
adjectiveOptics and imaging
Pertaining to a narrow opening or slit in an opaque barrier that restricts the light which reaches the eye.
step
The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
step flashing
nounConstruction
Individual pieces of sheet metal material used to flash walls, around chimneys, dormers and such projections along the slope of a roof. Individual pieces are overlapped and stepped up the vertical wall.
step on
To interrupt, overpower, or override (another transmission on the same frequency) with one's own transmission.
step on it
verbAutomotive
To drive fast; to step on the accelerator.
stepside
adjectiveAutomotive
With the fenders and wheel wells outside of the main body shell.
stereotomy
nounConstruction
The cutting or dissection of solids.
stereotype
A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
stereotypography
The act or technique of printing from stereotype plates.
stereotypy
The process of making stereotype plates and printing from them.
sterling
Obsolete form of starling (“an enclosure like a coffer-dam, formed of piles driven closely together before any structure or work, as a protection against the wash of waves, commonly used to protect the piers of a bridge”).
steward
A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
stick
nounCarpentry
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
stick clip
a non-penetrating fastener that is adhered to the waterproofing surface; typically used to retain insulation, drainage panels, etc., against the waterproofing to prevent sliding and displacement.
stickful
As much type as fills a composing stick.
stickling
A cutting in the early stages of growth.
sticky
nounManufacturing
A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
sticky bit
A fault in a digital circuit, where a signal does not change as expected, but remains always in one state.
stiff
adverbMarine and shipyard
Of the wind, with great force; strongly.
stiffener
nounConstruction
One of a series of angle bars, Z-bars, beams, rods, or other shapes, attached in order to provide them the necessary stiffness or rigidity.
stigmatism
Image-formation property of an optical system which focuses a single point source in object space into a single point in image space
stigmatypy
A technique of printing with points, consisting of their arrangement in pictures.
stirrup
nounConstruction
A bent rebar wrapped around the main rebars to reinforce against shear stress.
stitch
A ridge of ploughed land between two furrows.
stoat
To stitch (edges of relatively thick cloth, fur, etc, for example on either side of a join or tear) together in a way that is invisible from the 'front', by sewing part of the way into and then back out of the thickness of the material from the 'back' side (without the thread going all the way through to the 'front' side of the material).
stock
nounManufacturing
The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
stock car
nounRail equipment
A railway car for carrying livestock.
stock vehicle
nounAutomotive
A vehicle that is kept and maintained to legal specifications.
stocker
Livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring; often contrasted with a feeder when the focus is on intended disposition.
stocking
A ratio of the actual density of trees in an area to the ideal density that would make the fullest use of the land.
stockpile
A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
stockwork
A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
stone
A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
stone editor
An editor who works with the compositor at the imposing stone to determine how material will be laid out on the page.
stone mulching
The practice of covering plant roots with stone, in the manner of a mulch.
stone subeditor
A subeditor having a similar role to that of the stone editor.
stoneman
A miner who makes excavations in hard strata other than coal.
stooker
A person (e.g., smallholder, farm laborer) who gathers sheaves into stooks (shocks).
stool
A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
stop off
verbMetalworking
To fill (a part of a mould) with sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is not wanted for the casting.
stop sign
A sign by the side of a road or street, often at an intersection, instructing vehicle drivers to stop.
stop the job
To completely stop all traffic.
stope
To excavate in the form of stopes.
stoper
A kind of drill for excavating stopes.
stoping
The removal of the desired ore from an underground mine, leaving behind an open space known as a stope.
stopper
nounRail equipment
A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.