vapour
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Latin vapor, vaporis, steam, heat
[edit] Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈveɪpə/
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[edit] Noun
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vapour (uncountable)
- The gas phase component of a liquid or solid.
[edit] Alternative spellings
- vapor (US)
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[edit] Translations
the gas phase component of a liquid or solid
[edit] Verb
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to vapour (third-person singular simple present vapours, present participle vapouring, simple past and past participle vapoured)
- (intransitive) To become vapour; to be emitted or circulated as vapour.
- (transitive) To turn into vapour.
- (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.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Bisara of Pooree’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, p. 172: