Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British Vapor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- etc. See vapor, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. The gas phase component of a liquid or solid.
- n. The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
- v. intransitive To become vapour; to be emitted or circulated as vapour.
- v. transitive To turn into vapour.
- v. intransitive To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
- v. intransitive To become vapour; to be emitted or circulated as vapour.
- v. transitive To turn into vapour.
- v. intransitive To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance
- n. the process of becoming a vapor
Etymologies
- From Old French, from Latin vapor ("steam, heat") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If this then led to more evaporation from the oceans, causing increased cloud cover, this could be a feedback, because clouds have a number of effects: they reflect more sunlight back into space (because they are whiter than the land and ocean surfaces they cover) and they trap more of the surface heat (because water vapour is a strong greenhouse gas).”
“The planet, HD 189733b, now known to have methane and water vapour is located 63 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula, the little fox.”
“Water vapour is indeed the 'most important' greenhouse gas.”
“The vapour is a central image because it suggests that”
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“The phenomenon becomes far clearer once the vapour is highly rarefied.”
“Provided that the vapour is highly rarefied, the rotation in very strong fields between the lines of the doublet can rise to - 400°.”
“The refrigeration caused by the expansion brings the temperature to sink below the dew-point, and the vapour is condensed into small drops, which form together visible clouds.”
“The bridge opposite the door was wet with vapour from the bath.”
“On our left stretched the broad expanse of Lake Michigan, dotted far and wide with the white wings of swiftly sailing schooners and the gracefully curling columns of gauzy vapour from the busy little tug-boats.”
“When the bread is in, the oven door should be stopped quite close; but over the door is a small opening called the stopper, which should be opened when the bread has been in a little time, in order that the vapour from the bread may escape.”
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Lists
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
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ghost
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Michele's Words
effluvia, fetid, turgid, besmirched, torpor, spanner, dodgy, fistula, bombastic, swarthy, hirsute, palpable and 63 more...
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