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Definition of vapour in English: vapour(US vapor) noun ˈveɪpəˈveɪpər 1mass noun A substance diffused or suspended in the air, especially one normally liquid or solid. 蒸汽；汽；雾 dense clouds of smoke and toxic vapour 成团的浓厚烟尘与有毒汽雾。 count noun petrol vapours 石油蒸气。 Example sentencesExamples - Air rising to pass over the mountains cools and the water vapour condenses into cloud, rain and, if it is cold enough, snow.
- Mercury vapors can cause toxic effects on the central and peripheral nervous system, lungs, kidneys, skin, and eyes.
- A few die-hards do start their exercises early, their breath turning to vapour in the cold.
- A nebulizer machine turns liquid medicine into a vapor that you breathe.
- Work should be carried out in a well ventilated area, and ingestion and inhalation of the vapour should be avoided.
- A nebuliser is a device that turns a medicine into an vapour, and is used with a face mask or mouthpiece.
- However, this type of bleach and its vapors are irritating to the skin, eyes, nose, and throat.
- The vapors are odorless, and victims may not know they have been exposed until symptoms develop.
- Adding a few drops of essential oil to a bowl of hot water, or to a warm bath, releases the vapour, which is then inhaled.
- When you puff gently on the device, nicotine vapor is released from a cartridge inside the device.
- Fire officials say gas station explosions like this are rare, but they can be sparked by static electricity or cell phones igniting the gasoline vapors.
- Simply fill a mug halfway with boiling water, add three to five drops of eucalyptus essential oil, cup your free hand over your nose and the mug and inhale the vapors for three to five minutes.
- Never ignite vapors from aerosol cans, they can explode.
- Having grown up in a cloud of nicotine vapour I am still thankful that I never succumbed.
- As water vapor condenses in the air each night, grass, plants and cars are covered by morning with a thin layer of water.
- As the warm air rises the water vapor in it condenses into clouds that can produce rain, snow, sleet or freezing rain, often all four.
- You might also add a few drops of the oil to a hot bath and soak for a while, inhaling the steamy vapors.
- Ethyl chloride is a rapid-acting general anesthetic that becomes flammable and explosive when 4 to 15 percent of the vapor is mixed with air.
- We learn that the Indians in the Mojave Desert inhaled the vapors from boiling creosote to treat respiratory infections.
- Watching the steam rise, she inhaled the comforting vapors and decided to take a bath.
Synonyms haze, mist, spray, steam, water vapour, condensation, smoke, fumes, exhalation, fog, smog, murk, cloud, cloudiness, drizzle, dampness, humidity, mistiness, Scotch mist - 1.1Physics count noun A gaseous substance that is below its critical temperature, and can therefore be liquefied by pressure alone.
〔物〕汽。比较GAS Compare with gas Example sentencesExamples - A gas is distinguished from a vapor in that a gas is above the critical point at which the liquid boils.
- What results is a super-saturated vapour, which cools to near ambient temperatures in a few milliseconds and condenses into the aerosol particles that make up the smoke.
- A vapor is the gaseous phase of a substance that, under ordinary conditions, exists as a liquid or solid.
2the vapoursdated A sudden feeling of faintness or nervousness or a state of depression. 〈旧〉突然的昏厥感；突然的紧张感；癔病性忧郁 Example sentencesExamples - I think I d have loved to be alive in an era of elegance and old-fashioned manners where ladies had attacks of the vapours and the gentlemen were just that - gentlemen.
- Abandoning our corsets would surely prevent the many attacks of the vapours we ladies are prone to!
- ‘If you have ever got the vapours when your teenager has stood beside your fixed-line phone making an expensive mobile call, then this addresses the problem,’ he said.
- Just stepping outside is enough to give an architectural purist the vapours.
- She sat at the table, legs propped up on the table in a manner that would give ladies in the finer centres of Europe a case of the vapours.
- Clark himself - who was so pro-Thatcher he had a fit of the vapours in her presence - was not a fan.
verb ˈveɪpəˈveɪpər [no object]Talk in a vacuous, boasting, or pompous way. 吹牛；吹嘘；自夸 he was vapouring on about the days of his youth 他不停吹嘘自己年青岁月。 Example sentencesExamples - To listen to the endless vapourings on the broadcast media, you would think there had been an earthquake at Holyrood.
- Beckford later claimed that he suggested to Mozart one of the best-known tunes in The Marriage of Figaro: he may have been ‘vapouring’ like his father.
- Their coverage was dominated by the self-important vapourings of a stream of politicians.
- Neither of these vaporings has the remotest basis in the actual Constitution.
Derivativesadjective ˈveɪpərəsˈveɪp(ə)rəs 1Of the nature of, characterized by, or filled with vapour. Example sentencesExamples - vaporous poisons
- The morning sun was hazy, filtering first through low winter clouds, then through the bedroom window blinds, filling the room with a tepid, vaporous half-light.
- For a long moment, the woman simply stared straight at them, unmoving, slowly inhaling the excess smoke from her dwindling cigarette, the smoke entwining her features like a vaporous cloud of fog on a snowy evening.
- Her vision was blurred, but she could faintly see the vaporous cloud hovering above her.
- the vaporous notion of free will
- the terminology is rather vaporous
2Lacking in substance or clarity; vague.
noun A cloud, a sort of vaporousness, redolent with fresh acrid sweat on top of powerful stale sweat, hung thickly about me.
adjective ˈveɪpərɪʃˈveɪpərɪʃ archaic (of a person) affected by or prone to feelings of faintness, nervousness, or depression. 〈旧〉突然的昏厥感；突然的紧张感；癔病性忧郁 vapourish people are perpetual subjects for diseases to work upon Example sentencesExamples - He can't always see more than a corner of the room - it appears vapourish and shadowy.
- Her heart lurched as she caught sight of a ship, hidden in a vapourish haze, emerging around the headland.
- Ghost apparitions almost always appear in a white vaporish form with a decidedly human appearance.
adjective ˈveɪp(ə)riˈveɪpəri Of the nature or consistency of vapour. Example sentencesExamples - vapoury smoke
- Thomas Logan referred to the sometimes ‘vapory condition of the atmosphere,’ which he associated with the tropics.
- The cattle lay quietly ruminating in the fields, their breath floating round them in a vapoury veil.
- As far as my eye could reach, corn-fields, corn-fields, dwindling away towards the horizon in a vapoury line.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin vapor 'steam, heat'. The current verb sense dates from the early 17th century. This comes from Latin vapor ‘steam, heat’. Evaporate (Late Middle English) comes from the Latin for ‘to change into vapour’, evaporare. Latin Vapidus ‘savourless’, source of vapid (mid 17th century), is probably related. See also hysteria
Definition of vapor in US English: vapor(British vapour) nounˈveɪpərˈvāpər 1A substance diffused or suspended in the air, especially one normally liquid or solid. 蒸汽；汽；雾 dense clouds of smoke and toxic vapor 成团的浓厚烟尘与有毒汽雾。 Example sentencesExamples - Fire officials say gas station explosions like this are rare, but they can be sparked by static electricity or cell phones igniting the gasoline vapors.
- As the warm air rises the water vapor in it condenses into clouds that can produce rain, snow, sleet or freezing rain, often all four.
- Mercury vapors can cause toxic effects on the central and peripheral nervous system, lungs, kidneys, skin, and eyes.
- A nebulizer machine turns liquid medicine into a vapor that you breathe.
- As water vapor condenses in the air each night, grass, plants and cars are covered by morning with a thin layer of water.
- Watching the steam rise, she inhaled the comforting vapors and decided to take a bath.
- The vapors are odorless, and victims may not know they have been exposed until symptoms develop.
- A nebuliser is a device that turns a medicine into an vapour, and is used with a face mask or mouthpiece.
- Work should be carried out in a well ventilated area, and ingestion and inhalation of the vapour should be avoided.
- Never ignite vapors from aerosol cans, they can explode.
- When you puff gently on the device, nicotine vapor is released from a cartridge inside the device.
- Simply fill a mug halfway with boiling water, add three to five drops of eucalyptus essential oil, cup your free hand over your nose and the mug and inhale the vapors for three to five minutes.
- Having grown up in a cloud of nicotine vapour I am still thankful that I never succumbed.
- Adding a few drops of essential oil to a bowl of hot water, or to a warm bath, releases the vapour, which is then inhaled.
- However, this type of bleach and its vapors are irritating to the skin, eyes, nose, and throat.
- A few die-hards do start their exercises early, their breath turning to vapour in the cold.
- Ethyl chloride is a rapid-acting general anesthetic that becomes flammable and explosive when 4 to 15 percent of the vapor is mixed with air.
- We learn that the Indians in the Mojave Desert inhaled the vapors from boiling creosote to treat respiratory infections.
- Air rising to pass over the mountains cools and the water vapour condenses into cloud, rain and, if it is cold enough, snow.
- You might also add a few drops of the oil to a hot bath and soak for a while, inhaling the steamy vapors.
Synonyms haze, mist, spray, steam, water vapour, condensation, smoke, fumes, exhalation, fog, smog, murk, cloud, cloudiness, drizzle, dampness, humidity, mistiness, scotch mist - 1.1Physics A gaseous substance that is below its critical temperature, and can therefore be liquefied by pressure alone.
〔物〕汽。比较GAS Compare with gas Example sentencesExamples - A vapor is the gaseous phase of a substance that, under ordinary conditions, exists as a liquid or solid.
- A gas is distinguished from a vapor in that a gas is above the critical point at which the liquid boils.
- What results is a super-saturated vapour, which cools to near ambient temperatures in a few milliseconds and condenses into the aerosol particles that make up the smoke.
2the vaporsdated A sudden feeling of faintness or nervousness or a state of depression. 〈旧〉突然的昏厥感；突然的紧张感；癔病性忧郁 Example sentencesExamples - Abandoning our corsets would surely prevent the many attacks of the vapours we ladies are prone to!
- I think I d have loved to be alive in an era of elegance and old-fashioned manners where ladies had attacks of the vapours and the gentlemen were just that - gentlemen.
- Just stepping outside is enough to give an architectural purist the vapours.
- ‘If you have ever got the vapours when your teenager has stood beside your fixed-line phone making an expensive mobile call, then this addresses the problem,’ he said.
- She sat at the table, legs propped up on the table in a manner that would give ladies in the finer centres of Europe a case of the vapours.
- Clark himself - who was so pro-Thatcher he had a fit of the vapours in her presence - was not a fan.
verbˈveɪpərˈvāpər [no object]Talk in a vacuous, boasting, or pompous way. 吹牛；吹嘘；自夸 he was vaporing on about the days of his youth 他不停吹嘘自己年青岁月。 Example sentencesExamples - Their coverage was dominated by the self-important vapourings of a stream of politicians.
- To listen to the endless vapourings on the broadcast media, you would think there had been an earthquake at Holyrood.
- Beckford later claimed that he suggested to Mozart one of the best-known tunes in The Marriage of Figaro: he may have been ‘vapouring’ like his father.
- Neither of these vaporings has the remotest basis in the actual Constitution.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin vapor ‘steam, heat’. The current verb sense dates from the early 17th century. |