Vapor
[veipə]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.
(n.) In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.
(n.) Wind; flatulence.
(n.) Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
(n.) An old name for hypochondria, or melancholy; the blues.
(n.) A medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor.
(n.) To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.
(n.) To emit vapor or fumes.
(n.) To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.
(v. t.) To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.
杰弗里整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Gaseous state (of a substance ordinarily fluid or solid), aeriform state.[2]. Fume, steam, reek, exhalation, smoke, fog, mist, rack.[3]. Phantom, fantasy, whim, whimsey, vagary, day-dream, vain imagination, unreal fancy.
v. n. Boast, brag, bluster, swagger, bully.
杰弗里校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Steam, fog, mist, fume, gas, exhalation,[See WORTH]
校對:米利森特
例句/造句/用法:
- The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Gay-Lussac found that two volumes of h ydrogen combined with one volume of oxygen to produce two volumes of water vapor. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- This vapor is rendered intensely cold by expansion, and this cold is imparted to the water in tank _a_ to freeze it. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The white, snow-like vapor seen falling over the edges of the tumbler is intensely cold and heavier than ordinary air. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The water which flows on the earth is constantly changing its form; the heat of the sun causes it to evaporate, or to become vapor, and to mingle with the atmosphere. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- A more scientific statement, however, is that the cold vapor absorbs the heat units of the water, and taking them away with it, lowers the temperature of the water to the freezing point. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- A vapor seemed to spread in all directions from where the salt solution struck the board, extinguishing the flame as it went. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- According t o Avogadro the water vapor contains twice as many atoms of hydrogen as of oxygen. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The common one is by applying extraneous heat, as under a tea kettle, in which case the evaporated vapor is hot by virtue of the heat absorbed from the fire. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The white vapor of the kiln was passing from us as we went by, and as I had thought a prayer before, I thought a thanksgiving now. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- He drew diagrams combining an a tom of oxygen with an atom of nitrogen and an atom of aqueous vapor. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In connection with the gasoline supply is a carburetor or sprayer, from which the cylinder _C_ (Fig. 130) receives a fine mist of gasoline vapor and air. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- That is the latent heat which is set free to work when the steam coming in contact with the cold changes the vapor from its gaseous to a liquid state. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It seemed to him that aqueous vapor always exists as a distinct fluid maintaining its identity among the other fluids of the atmosp here. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- But although the escaped vapor mingles with the atmosphere, hovering near the earth's surface, or rising far above the level of the mountains, it does not remain there permanently. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In this a vacuum is maintained by a condenser, the vapors passing from the pan to the condenser through the great curved pipe rising from the top, which pipe is five feet in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In 1824 Bussy condensed sulphurous acid vapors to liquid form. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Therefore these vapours of the sun which were rendered in black lines were so produced by crossing terrestrial vapors of the same nature. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- At this moment, the barricade fell down with a crash, amid a sudden shower of sparks and rolling vapors. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- They are applied either by immersion, coating, injecting, vapors, etc. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The rain desce nds on the earth; streams and rivers bear it to the sea; the aqueous vapors, drawn from the sea, supply the c louds, and the circuit is complete. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Until quite recently the physicist divided gaseous matter into condensable vapors and permanent vapors. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The vapors of the volcano! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
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