What's the difference between drunk and steaming?

Drunk


Definition:

  • () of Drink
  • (p. p.) of Drink
  • (a.) Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).
  • (a.) Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
  • (n.) A drunken condition; a spree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
  • (2) The major part of water was drunk during feeding time.
  • (3) The leadership of 212 chapters of an organization called Mothers Against Drunk Driving was surveyed to obtain data on chapter emphasis, satisfaction, future involvement and perception of most effective countermeasures.
  • (4) We hope that the court of appeal in reaching its judgment understands that consent cannot happen when a woman is too drunk to consent.
  • (5) Big Red football parties had a reputation for being wildly drunk.
  • (6) "I would stand there and watch him every night, unless I was too drunk that I couldn't stand.
  • (7) A DWI conviction may also stimulate the drunk driver to seek treatment for alcoholism.
  • (8) Alcohol campaigns largely target younger women, yet the risk of breast cancer – which peaks in the 60-64 age group – increases by about 7% for every unit drunk per day.
  • (9) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
  • (10) But living in modern Britain feels like being one of a family of anxious, squabbling children whose parents have abandoned us to get drunk at the casino.
  • (11) There is a half-drunk glass of white wine abandoned on the coffee table at his Queensferry home - the Browns had friends around for dinner the previous night - and a stack of children's books and board games piled lopsidedly under a Christmas tree now shedding needles with abandon.
  • (12) No one would deny that Thomas drank too much or that he could be a troublesome drunk.
  • (13) Thirty-one males (17%) and 18 females (9%) reported getting drunk at least twice a month and having five or more drinks on each drinking occasion.
  • (14) Student days and getting drunk, our worst dates, how close we are to our parents, sausages, setting up Lindy Hop dance classes for gay people.
  • (15) "But I've never been drunk in my life," she says, to clarify).
  • (16) But Micheline Mwendike, 29, likened the concert to getting drunk to escape problems.
  • (17) My mum thought it was a bad idea, because the chefs were nuts, always drunk.
  • (18) "When beer is cheaper than water, it's just too easy for people to get drunk on cheap alcohol at home before they even set foot in the pub," the PM wrote in the foreword.
  • (19) Only recall of wine, the least frequently drunk beverage, was more highly correlated with current than with original consumption.
  • (20) Blood glucose remained unchanged during and after exercise when E was drunk.

Steaming


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steam

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During periods of wet steam it was impossible to maintain consistent sterility of the mouse pellets even using a cycle of 126 degrees C for 60 minutes.
  • (2) It could perhaps be used in natural gas stations, where a synthetic gas is first produced by reacting the methane with steam to produce carbon dioxide and hydrogen.
  • (3) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?
  • (4) 3) In all age groups the foods most ingested were: steamed rice, wakame, tofu, bread, scallions, Japanese omelette, and tomatoes.
  • (5) The LMA exacerbated the issue on Thursday night with a statement of its own, in which Mackay apologised for sending texts that “were disrespectful to other cultures” but he “was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter”.
  • (6) Yet they seem ignorant of what's steaming down the track towards them.
  • (7) But Soriot sounds like a boss who would prefer to succeed under his own steam.
  • (8) Beans were steamed-blanched at 100 degrees C for 2 minutes, and then canned and autoclaved at 121 degrees C for 10 minutes.
  • (9) Both those models are running out of steam," he said.
  • (10) But Spurs built up a final head of steam and after Gomes punched clear Trippier’s initial cross, a second fell to Son at the near post and he back-heeled the ball past Gomes.
  • (11) Do not write a steaming novella to the chair of governors complaining that your son’s civil rights have been denied.
  • (12) Building CHP stations near industrial sites means that the heat can be piped into factories or buildings as high pressure steam or hot water.
  • (13) Acid hydrolysis followed by steam distillation released more than 95% of the acetyl groups from the two major nucleoproteins.
  • (14) "For example, making use of more rigorous testing methodologies pre-launch to improve game quality and prevent SimCity-style launch debacles; engaging with, listening to and rewarding its games' communities more readily; learning from, rather than dismissing, the successful practices of competitors such as Steam, etc."
  • (15) The meat preserves had been prepared in a butcher's shop and heated in a "cooking pot", the steam holes of which had been stopped up and the lid of which had been made heavier in order to reach a temperature above 100 degrees C. Inadequate sterilization and errors in processing are suggested as possible causes.
  • (16) It added: "These were two text messages sent in private at a time Malky felt under great pressure and when he was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter."
  • (17) Data are presented which show the potential for release of viable microorganisms into the atmosphere from high-vacuum steam sterilizers during the evacuation cycle preceding application of steam under pressure.
  • (18) 2 Drop in the camomile flowers (or a camomile teabag) and keep at a steeping temperature – no bubbles, just gentle steaming.
  • (19) He steamed with anger and, although it was encouraging to see him stand up to the rough stuff, there may yet be an anxious wait on scan results.
  • (20) The excessive heat and sweating was related to the use of a hot tub, a hot water bottle, a steam bath, an electric blanket, the prolonged wearing of a polyester suit, and postoperative bed confinement.