vapor

Alternative forms

• vapour (Commonwealth English)

Etymology

From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈveɪpə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪpə(r)

Noun

vapor (plural vapors)

1. Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
2. The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
   • 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

Verb

vapor (third-person singular simple present vapors, present participle vaporing, simple past and past participle vapored)

1. (intransitive) To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
2. (transitive) To turn into vapor.
3. (intransitive) To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Bisara of Pooree’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, p. 172:

     He vapoured, and fretted, and fumed, and trotted up and down, and tried to make himself pleasing in Miss Hollis's big, quiet, grey eyes, and failed.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 1,

     […] an amusing character all but extinct now, but occasionally to be encountered […] vaporing in the groggeries along the tow-path.

See also

• dew point
• get the vapors

Anagrams

• parvo, parvo-

Noun

vapor

1. steamboat

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. vapor

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Noun

vapor m (plural vapors)

1. vapor

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. vapor

Noun

vapor m (Latin spelling)

1. ship, steamer

Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly related to Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”) and Proto-Indo-European *kʷep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”), via an older form *quapor that eventually lost its velar.^[1] See also hope.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwa.por/, [ˈwa.pɔr]

Noun

vapor m (genitive vapōris); third declension

1. steam, exhalation, vapour; smoke
2. warm exhalation, warmth, heat
3. ardour of love, warmth

References

• vapor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vapor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vapor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Noun

vapor f (oblique plural vapors, nominative singular vapor, nominative plural vapors)

1. Alternative form of vapeur

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐ.ˈpoɾ/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /va.ˈpoɹ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.ˈpoɻ/
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): /va.ˈpox/
• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.ˈpo/
• Hyphenation: va‧por

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. vapor / vapour

Anagrams

• prova, pavor

Etymology

From Italian vapore, French vapeur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈpor/

Noun

vapor n (plural vapoare)

1. boat, ship

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [baˈpoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. steam, vapor (water vapor)