Steam shovel A steam shovel is a large steam-powered excavating machine designed for lifting and moving material such as rock and soil.
	Steam turbine A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into useful mechanical work. It has completely replaced the reciprocating piston steam engine primarily because of its greater thermal efficiency and higher power-to-weight ratio.
	Steam whistle A steam whistle is a device used to produce sound with the aid of live steam. The whistle consists of the following main parts, as seen on the drawing: The whistle bell, the steam orifice and the valve. When the lever is pulled, the valve opens and lets the steam escape through the orifice.
	Steamboat A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a boat or vessel which is propelled by steam power that drives a propeller or paddlewheel. The term steamboat is usually used to refer to smaller steam-powered boats working on lakes and rivers, particularly riverboats in the USA; steamship generally refers to steam powered ships capable of carrying a boat.
	Steaming Steaming is a method of cooking using steam. Steaming is a preferred cooking method for health conscious individuals because no cooking oil is needed, thus resulting in a lower fat content. Steaming also results in a more nutritious food than boiling because fewer nutrients are destroyed or leached away into the water .
	Steamroller A steamroller is a particular form of road roller, a type of heavy construction machinery used for levelling surfaces. Steam rollers are a large steam-powered vehicle with a heavy cylinder or drum in place of the front wheels and smooth rear wheels. Steam rollers are generally used in paving roads or airfields, to flatten out the surface.
	Stearic acid Stearic acid is one of the useful types of saturated fatty acids that comes from many animal and vegetable fats and oils. It is a waxy solid, and its chemical formula is CH3(CH2)16COOH. Its name comes from the Greek language word stear, which means tallow.
	Steatite Steatite , also known as potstone and lapis ollaris, is a type of soapstone which is almost purely talc. It is also a type of ceramic material made from soapstone with minor additives and heated to vitrification . It is often used as an insulator or housing for electrical components, due to its durability and electrical characteristics and since it can be pressed into complex shapes before firing.
	Steel Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon content between 0.02% and 1.7% by weight. Carbon is the most cost effective alloying material for iron, but many other alloying elements are also used. Carbon and other elements act as a hardening agent, preventing dislocations in the iron atom crystal lattice from sliding past one another.
	Steel guitar Steel guitar is: * A method of playing slide guitar using a slide . Resonator guitars, including round necked varieties, are particularly suitable for this style, but other types are also used, usually with modified high actions, as well as instruments produced specifically for the purpose.
	Steeles Steeles is a Suburb neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the former municipality of Scarborough, Ontario which was Metropolitan Toronto#Amalgamation into the City of Toronto in 1998. Steeles is located at the northern edge of Toronto and is bordered by Steeles Avenue East to the north, Kennedy Road to the east, a hydro-electric transmission line to the south and Victoria Park Avenue to the west.
	Steelyard The Steelyard, from the German language Stalhof, was in the Middle Ages the main trading base of the Hanseatic League in London.
	Steer roping he steer roper is behind a taut rope fastened with an easily-broken string which is fastened to the rope on the steer. When the roper is ready he calls for the steer and the chute man trips a lever opening the doors. The suddenly-freed steer breaks out running. When the steer reaches the end of his rope, the string breaks simultaneously releasing the barrier for the roper.
	Steering Steering is the term applied to the collection of components, linkages, etc. which allow for a automobile or other vehicle to follow a course determined by its driver, except in the case of rail transport by which rail tracks combined together with railroad switches provide the steering function.
	Steering wheel A steering wheel is a type of steering control used in most modern land vehicles, including all mass-production automobiles. The steering wheel is the part of the steering system that is manipulated by the driver; the rest of the steering system responds to the movements of the steering wheel.
	Steers Steers is a fast food Franchising burger restaurant chain originating from South Africa. It sells mainly flame grilled beef and chicken burgers under its credo "real food made real good". The restaurant chain can trace its roots back to 1960, when the founder of the company, George Halamandaris, visited the United States and decided that he would bring the fast-food concept back to South Africa; however, the first Steers restaurant was only opened in Jeppe, Johannesb
	Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer.
	Steffi Graf Stefanie Maria Graf is a former World No. 1 women's tennis player from Germany. She is generally considered to be one of the greatest women's tennis players of all time. Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, more than any other player has won during the open era, male or female.
	Steganography Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the intended recipient knows of the existence of the message; this is in contrast to cryptography, where the existence of the message itself is not disguised, but the content is obscured.
	Stegosaurus Stegosaurus meaning 'roof-lizard' was a genus comprising several species of large herbivore dinosaurs from Late Jurassic Period of what is now western North America. Stegosaurus is one of the more common dinosaurs found in the Upper Morrison Formation, formed some 155 to 145 million years ago, in an environment and time dominated by the giant sauropods Diplodocus, Camarasaurus and Apatosaurus.
	Steinberg Steinberg is a German musical equipment and software company. It mainly produces Musical Instrument Digital Interface music sequencer software, software synthesizer and digital audio editor tools. The company was founded in 1984 by Karl Steinberg and Manfred Rrup.
	Stele A stele is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerary or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living—inscribed, carved in relief, or painted onto the slab. Stelae were also used as territorial markers, as the boundary stelae of Akhenaton at Amarna, or to commemorate military victories.
	Stellaria Stellaria is a genus of about 90-120 species flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution. Common names include stitchwort and chickweed. ;Selected species Chickweeds are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Angle Shades, Heart and Dart, Riband Wave, Setaceous Hebrew Character and the Coleophora case-bearers C.
	Stellaria holostea Stellaria holostea is an ornamental plant native of Europe. External links*
	Steller's Sea Cow Steller's Sea Cow is an extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea. It was discovered in the Bering Strait in 1741 by the naturalist Georg Steller, who was traveling with the explorer Vitus Bering. A small population lived in the arctic waters around Bering Island and nearby Copper Island.
	Steller's Sea Lion The Steller's Sea Lion , also known as the Northern Sea Lion, is a sea lion of the temperate eastern Pacific, named for the eighteenth century naturalist Georg Steller. It is the largest of the eared seals, measuring up to 3.3 m in length, with males weighing up to 1,100 kg while females weigh around 350 kg.
	Stem cell Stem cells in people are primal undifferentiated Cell that retain the ability to produce an identical copy of themselves when they mitosis and Cellular differentiation into other cell types. In higher animals this function is the defining property of the deleted cells.
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	Stendhal /div> Marie-Henri Beyle , better known by his penname Stendhal, was a 19th century France writer. He is known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology and for the dryness of his writing-style. He is considered one of the foremost and earliest practitioners of the realism , and his most famous novels are Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme .
	Stenocarpus Stenocarpus is a genus of around 25 species of woody trees or shrubs of the family Proteaceae, occurring in rainforests of Eastern and monsoonal areas of Northern and North-Western Australia with 2 extending into New Guinea and the Aru Islands, with the greatest diversity occurring in New Caledonia, where the majority are found.
	Stent In medicine, a stent is either an expandable wire form or perforated tube that is inserted into a natural conduit of the body to prevent or counteract a disease-induced localized flow constriction.
	Stentorian There is a Bangla Rock Group of this name - See Agontuk-3 entry.
	Step Step may refer to: * Stairway, a horizontal platform of a stairway * Steps and skips, an interval between two consecutive scale degrees * Dance move * Step function, a type of mathematical function * Step dance * STEP, an acronym with several meanings
	Step by Step Step by Step was an United States television Situation comedy which was aired on American Broadcasting Company from September 20, 1991 to August 15, 1997 and with a network change moved to CBS from September 19, 1997 to June 26, 1998.
	Stéphane Grappelli Stphane Grappelli was a pioneer jazz violinist who founded the quintet of the "Quintette du Hot Club de France" with Django Reinhardt. It was among the first all-string jazz bands. He was born in Paris, France to Italy parents. Sent to an orphanage as a youth after his mother died when he was 4 and his father left to fight in World War I, Grappelli started his musical career busking on the streets of Paris and Montmarte with a violin.
	Stéphane Mallarmé Stphane Mallarm , whose real name was tienne Mallarm, was a France poet and critic. He worked as an English teacher, and spent much of his life in relative poverty; but he was a major French Symbolism poet and rightly famed for his Salon , occasional gatherings of intellectuals at his house for discussions of poetry, art, philosophy.
	Stephen A. Douglas Stephen Arnold Douglas, known as the "Little Giant," he was an United States politician from the frontier state of Illinois, and was the History of the United States Democratic Party nomineesfor President in 1860. He lost to History of the United States Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln, also from Illinois.
	Stephen Crane Stephen Crane was an United States novelist, poet and journalist. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, on November 1, 1871, the 14th child of a Methodist minister.
	Stephen Decatur Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr. was an United States Navy officer notable for his heroism in actions at Tripoli, Libya in the Barbary Wars and in the War of 1812.
	Stephen Foster erences * Emerson, Ken. Doo Dah! Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture. De Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80852-8. * Charles Hamm. Yesterdays: Popular Song in America. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-01257-3.
	Stephen Girard Stephen Girard was an United States philanthropist and banker. He was born in Bordeaux, France, and became a sailor at the age of 13. By 1773 he was master and captain of a vessel operating between New York, New Orleans, and the West Indies. In 1777, as a result of British blockades of seaports during the American Revolutionary War, he engaged in a mercantile career in Philadelphia, a city where his business interests could prosper, and his atheism was not a disadvantage.
	Stephen Hawking Stephen William Hawking, Companion of Honour, Commander of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society is a theoretical physics. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
	Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould was an United States Paleontology, Evolution, and History of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation, leading many commentators to call him "America's unofficial evolutionist laureate." Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
	Stephen Samuel Wise Stephen Samuel Wise was a Hungary- born United States of America Reform Judaism rabbi and Zionism leader.
	Steppe In physical geography, a steppe , pronounced in English as step, is a plain without trees ; it is similar to a prairie, although a prairie is generally considered as being dominated by tall grasses, while short grasses are said to be the normal in the steppe. It may be semi-desert, or covered with Poaceae or shrubs, or both depending on the season and latitude.
	Stepper A stepper is a device used in the manufacture of integrated circuits that is similar in operation to a slide projector or a photographic enlarger. Steppers are an essential part of the complex process, called photolithography, that creates millions of microscopic circuit elements on the surface of tiny chips of silicon.
	Steps STEPS were a highly successful United Kingdom pop music band who achieved a series of top hit singles between 1997 and 2001. Their name was based around a simple marketing gimmick. Each of their music videos were carefully choreography, and the dance steps were included with most of their single releases.
	Steradian The steradian is the SI unit of solid angle. It is used to describe two-dimensional angular spans in three-dimensional space, analogous to the way in which the radian describes angles in a Plane . The name is partly derived from the Greek language stereos for "solid".
	Sterculia Sterculia *Sterculia africana mopopaja tree *Sterculia alata buddha coconut *Sterculia alexandrii cape sterculia *Sterculia apetala panama tree *Sterculia balanghas *Sterculia carthaginensis *Sterculia chicha maranhão nut *Sterculia diversifolia bottle tree
	Sterculiaceae Sterculiaceae is a botanical name for a group of flowering plants at the rank of family and, as is true for any botanical name, the , status and placement of the taxon varies with taxonomic point of view. The family name is based on the genus Sterculia. As traditionally circumscribed the Sterculiaceae, Malvaceae, Bombacaceae, and Tiliaceae comprise the "core Malvales" of the Cronquist system and the close relationship among these families is generally recognized.
	STEREO STEREO is a Sun observation mission to be launched no earlier than October 25 2006. Two identical spacecraft will be launched into orbits that cause them to pull further ahead and fall gradually behind the earth. This will enable stereoscopic imaging of the Sun and solar phenomena, such as Coronal Mass Ejections.
	Stereophonics Stereophonics are a United Kingdom Rock music band from Wales with original members Kelly Jones, Richard Jones and Stuart Cable growing up together in their hometown of Cwmaman in South Wales. The trio began writing and performing in working mens clubs together in 1992 as a teenage cover band known as 'Tragic Love Company', a name inspired by their favourite bands Tragically Hip, Mother Love Bone and Bad Company.
	Stereoscope A stereoscope is a device for viewing stereographic cards, which are cards that contain two separate images that are printed side-by-side to create the illusion of a three-dimensional image. This is an example of stereoscopy. When stereographic cards are viewed without a stereoscopic viewer the users are required to force their eyes either to cross, or to diverge, so that the two images appear to be three.
	Stereoscopy Stereoscopy, stereoscopic imaging or 3-D imaging is any technique capable of recording three-dimensional visual information or creating the stereopsis in an image. The illusion of depth in a photograph, film, or other two-dimensional image is created by presenting a slightly different image to each eye.
	Sterling silver Sterling silver is an alloy of silver containing 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% other metals, usually copper. The minimum millesimal fineness is 925. Fine silver is generally too soft for producing large functional objects, and in Sterling the silver is usually alloyed with copper to give strength whilst preserving the ductility of the silver and a high precious metal content.
	Stern The stern is the rear or after part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter to the taffrail. The stern area has always been the location of the steering apparatus, and by extension became the domain of the ship's captain and other officers.
	Sternotherus Sternotherus is a genus of aquatic turtle known commonly as the musk turtle. They are found throughout the United States and Mexico. They are very similar to the American mud turtles, but tend to have a more domed carapace, with a distinctive keel down the center of it.
	Steroid A steroid is a lipid characterized by a carbon skeleton with four fused rings. All steroids are derived from the acetyl CoA biosynthetic pathway. Different steroids vary in the functional groups attached to these rings, the base structure being a cyclophenanthrene nucleus. Hundreds of distinct steroids have been identified in plants, animals, and Fungus.
	Steroid hormone Steroid hormones are steroids which act as hormones. Mammalian steroid hormones can be grouped into five groups by the receptors to which they bind: glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids, androgens, estrogens, and progestagens. Vitamin D derivatives are a sixth closely related hormone system with homologous receptors, though technically sterols rather than steroids.
	Sterol Sterols, or steroid alcohols are a subgroup of steroids with a hydroxyl group in the 3-position of the A-ring. They are amphipathic lipids synthetised from Acetyl coenzyme A. The overall molecule is quite flat. The hydroxyl group on the A ring is polar. The rest of the aliphatic chain is non-polar.
	Stethoscope The stethoscope is an acoustic medicine device for auscultation, i.e. listening to internal sounds in the human body. It is most often used to listen to heart sounds and breathing , though it is also used to listen to intestines and blood flow in arteries and veins.
	Stetson Stetson hats or Stetsons are often known as cowboy hats. Stetson is actually a brand name, not a type of hat. The John B. Stetson Company of St. Joseph, Missouri was founded by John B. Stetson, the manufacturer of some of the more famous variants of the cowboy hat: a felt hat with a tall crown and very wide brim.
	Steve Martin Stephen Glenn Martin is an United States comedian, writer, Film producer, actor, musician, and composer.
	Steve Reich Steve Reich is an United States composer. Reich is known as one of the pioneers of minimalist music, although he has increasingly deviated from a purely minimalist style. Reich has developed a number of very influential compositional ideas including using tape loops to create phasing patterns ; and using processes to create and explore musical concepts .
	Stevedore The words stevedore, docker, and longshoreman can have various waterfront-related meanings concerning loading and unloading ships, according to place and country. The word "stevedore" was brought from Spain or Portugal by sailors. It started as a phonetic spelling of Spanish language estibador or Portuguese language estivador = "a man who stuffs", here in the sense of "a man who loads ships", which was the original meaning of "stevedore"; compare Latin stipare = "to stuff".
	Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg, Order of the British Empire is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States film director. He is the most finance successful motion picture director of all time. He has directed and/or produced a number of major box office hits, giving him great influence in Hollywood, California.
	Stevia Stevia is a genus of about 150 species of herbs and shrubs belonging to the Asteraceae Family , native to subtropical and tropical South America and Central America . The species are found in the wild in semi-arid Habitat s ranging from grassland to mountain terrain.
	Stew A stew is a common dish made of vegetables, meat, poultry, or seafood cooked in some sort of broth or sauce. The line between stew and soup is a fine one, but generally a stew's ingredients are cut in larger pieces and retain some of their individual flavours, a stew may have thicker broth, and a stew is more likely to be eaten as a main course than as a starter.
	Stibnite Stibnite, sometimes also called antimonite, is a sulfide mineral with the chemical composition Sb2S3. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, has hardness 2 and a grey colour. Stibnite is the most important source for the rare metal antimony.
	Stick figure A stick figure is a very primitive type of drawing, generally of the human form, although stick figures of other types of animals are possible. In a stick figure, the head is represented by a circle, sometimes embellished with details such as eyes or crudely-scratched-out hair.