Vapor
[veipə]
Definition
(noun.) a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Edited by Jeffrey
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Steam, fog, mist, fume, gas, exhalation,[See WORTH]
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Examples
- The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Gay-Lussac found that two volumes of h ydrogen combined with one volume of oxygen to produce two volumes of water vapor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The white, snow-like vapor seen falling over the edges of the tumbler is intensely cold and heavier than ordinary air. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A vapor seemed to spread in all directions from where the salt solution struck the board, extinguishing the flame as it went. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- According t o Avogadro the water vapor contains twice as many atoms of hydrogen as of oxygen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- 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. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He drew diagrams combining an a tom of oxygen with an atom of nitrogen and an atom of aqueous vapor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It seemed to him that aqueous vapor always exists as a distinct fluid maintaining its identity among the other fluids of the atmosp here. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1824 Bussy condensed sulphurous acid vapors to liquid form. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Therefore these vapours of the sun which were rendered in black lines were so produced by crossing terrestrial vapors of the same nature. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- At this moment, the barricade fell down with a crash, amid a sudden shower of sparks and rolling vapors. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They are applied either by immersion, coating, injecting, vapors, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- 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. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Until quite recently the physicist divided gaseous matter into condensable vapors and permanent vapors. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The vapors of the volcano! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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