VAPOR
\vˈe͡ɪpə], \vˈeɪpə], \v_ˈeɪ_p_ə]\
Definitions of VAPOR
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.
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In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.
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Wind; flatulence.
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Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
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A medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor.
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To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.
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To emit vapor or fumes.
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To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.
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To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.
By Oddity Software
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Any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.
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In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.
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Wind; flatulence.
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Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
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A medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor.
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To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.
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To emit vapor or fumes.
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To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.
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To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.
By Noah Webster.
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The form taken by liquids and solids under the influence of heat, or reduction of pressure; gas; a cloudlike substance floating in the air and robbing it of clearness, as fog, smoke, etc.; anything impossible to seize and hold; something that vanishes like smoke or mist; as, life is but a vapor.
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To pass off in the form of gas, steam, etc,; to send out gas, steam, etc,; to indulge in idle talk.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The gas, generally invisible, into which most liquids and solids are convertible by heat: (physics) the condition of a body when it becomes gas by heat: water in the atmosphere: anything vain or transitory:-pl. a disease of nervous weakness in which a variety of strange images float before the mind.
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To pass off in vapor: to evaporate: to boast: to brag.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Floating moisture in the air; the gaseous form of any substance.
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Something fleeting and unsubstantial. vapour.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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