steam iron
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- noun
- /stim ˈaɪərn/
:
plancha de vapor
- To remove the wrinkles from the shirt, I used a steam iron to press the fabric smoothly.
Examples
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After setting the steam iron on a low temperature, she glided it over the delicate fabric with ease.
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It was sitting under the steam iron.
Fiction book (1998) -
They have these steam irons, right where you hang up the clothes in the closet and you go vertically up and down.
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He plugged in the steam iron, allowing it to heat up before tackling the stubborn creases in his pants.
Synonyms
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A metal tool with a flat hot base for removing wrinkles from clothes
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A small machine with a flat hot metal base used to press clothes and remove wrinkles
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A machine that uses hot steam to make clothes flat and remove wrinkles
A tool with a flat hot metal base that removes creases from clothes
A machine with a large heated plate that presses clothes flat
How Industrial
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an iron that uses steam' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'steam' (vapor) with 'iron' (a handheld heated appliance); a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer it's an iron that produces or uses steam for pressing or styling. This noun–noun composition is a straightforward, compositional compound found across languages, so the MWE is predictable from its parts.
Etymology
The noun steam iron comes from joining steam and iron: imagine a hot metal plate that hisses as water makes steam to soften fabric and smooth out wrinkles. So, a steam iron is an iron that uses steam to 'remove wrinkles'.