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va·pour

(vā′pər)

n. & v. Chiefly British

Variant of vapor.

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vapour

(ˈveɪpə) or

vapor

1. (General Physics) particles of moisture or other substance suspended in air and visible as clouds, smoke, etc

2. (General Physics) a gaseous substance at a temperature below its critical temperature. Compare gas³

3. (General Physics) a substance that is in a gaseous state at a temperature below its boiling point

4. rare something fanciful that lacks substance or permanence

5. the vapours archaic a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach

6. (General Physics) to evaporate or cause to evaporate; vaporize

7. (intr) to make vain empty boasts; brag

[C14: from Latin vapor]

ˈvapourable, ˈvaporable adj

ˌvapouraˈbility, ˌvaporaˈbility n

ˈvapourer, ˈvaporer n

ˈvapourish, ˈvaporish adj

ˈvapourless, ˈvaporless adj

ˈvapour-ˌlike, ˈvapor-ˌlike adj

ˈvapoury, ˈvapory adj

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va•por

(ˈveɪ pər)
n.

1. a visible exhalation, as fog or smoke, suspended in the air.

2. a substance in gaseous form that is below its critical temperature.

3. a substance converted into vapor for technical or medicinal uses.

4. a combination of a vaporized substance and air.

5. gaseous particles of drugs that can be inhaled as a therapeutic agent.

6. Archaic.

a. a strange, senseless, or fantastic notion.

b. something insubstantial.

7. vapors, Archaic.

a. mental depression or hypochondria.

b. injurious exhalations supposed to be produced within the body, esp. in the stomach.

v.i.

8. to rise in the form of vapor.

9. to emit vapor.

10. to talk pompously.

Also, esp. Brit., vapour.

[1325–75; < Latin vapor steam]

va′por•a•ble, adj.

va`por•a•bil′i•ty, n.

va′por•er, n.

va′por•less, adj.

va′por•y, adj.

vapour

Past participle: vapoured
Gerund: vapouring

Imperative
vapour
vapour

Present
I vapour
you vapour
he/she/it vapours
we vapour
you vapour
they vapour

Preterite
I vapoured
you vapoured
he/she/it vapoured
we vapoured
you vapoured
they vapoured

Present Continuous
I am vapouring
you are vapouring
he/she/it is vapouring
we are vapouring
you are vapouring
they are vapouring

Present Perfect
I have vapoured
you have vapoured
he/she/it has vapoured
we have vapoured
you have vapoured
they have vapoured

Past Continuous
I was vapouring
you were vapouring
he/she/it was vapouring
we were vapouring
you were vapouring
they were vapouring

Past Perfect
I had vapoured
you had vapoured
he/she/it had vapoured
we had vapoured
you had vapoured
they had vapoured

Future
I will vapour
you will vapour
he/she/it will vapour
we will vapour
you will vapour
they will vapour

Future Perfect
I will have vapoured
you will have vapoured
he/she/it will have vapoured
we will have vapoured
you will have vapoured
they will have vapoured

Future Continuous
I will be vapouring
you will be vapouring
he/she/it will be vapouring
we will be vapouring
you will be vapouring
they will be vapouring

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been vapouring
you have been vapouring
he/she/it has been vapouring
we have been vapouring
you have been vapouring
they have been vapouring

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been vapouring
you will have been vapouring
he/she/it will have been vapouring
we will have been vapouring
you will have been vapouring
they will have been vapouring

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been vapouring
you had been vapouring
he/she/it had been vapouring
we had been vapouring
you had been vapouring
they had been vapouring

Conditional
I would vapour
you would vapour
he/she/it would vapour
we would vapour
you would vapour
they would vapour

Past Conditional
I would have vapoured
you would have vapoured
he/she/it would have vapoured
we would have vapoured
you would have vapoured
they would have vapoured

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Noun	1.	vapour - a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance vapor suspension - a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy steam - water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere water vapor, water vapour - water in a vaporous form diffused in the atmosphere but below boiling temperature
	2.	vapour - the process of becoming a vapor evaporation, vaporisation, vaporization, vapor boiling - the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas clouding, clouding up - the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky phase change, phase transition, physical change, state change - a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition smoke, smoking - a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion; "the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles"

vapour

noun mist, fog, haze, smoke, breath, steam, fumes, dampness, miasma, exhalation a cloud of poisonous vapour

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vapor

vapour

vapor (US) [ˈveɪpəʳ]

A. N (= steam) → vapor m; (on breath, window) → vaho m
the vapours (Med) (o.f.) → los vapores

B. CPD vapour trail N (Aer) → estela f (de humo)

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vapour

(American) vapor (ˈveipə) noun

1. the gas-like form into which a substance can be changed by heating. water vapour.vapor

2. mist, fumes or smoke in the air. Near the marshes the air was filled with a strange-smelling vapour.vapor

ˈvaporize, ˈvaporise verb

to (cause to) change into a gas-like state. vaporizar, evaporar; esfumar

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It stirs my world of the past like a summons to resurrection; the graves unclose, the dead are raised; thoughts, feelings, memories that slept, are seen by me ascending from the clods--haloed most of them--but while I gaze on their vapoury forms, and strive to ascertain definitely their outline, the sound which wakened them dies, and they sink, each and all, like a light wreath of mist, absorbed in the mould, recalled to urns, resealed in monuments.

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Further, romantic as he was in spirit, he was not able to free himself from the pseudo-classical mannerisms; every page of his poem abounds with the old lifeless phraseology--'the finny tribes' for 'the fishes,' 'the vapoury whiteness' for 'the snow' or 'the hard-won treasures of the year' for 'the crops.' His blank verse, too, is comparatively clumsy--padded with unnecessary words and the lines largely end-stopped.

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It was enough that in yonder closet, opposite my dressing-table, garments said to be hers had already displaced my black stuff Lowood frock and straw bonnet: for not to me appertained that suit of wedding raiment; the pearl-coloured robe, the vapoury veil pendent from the usurped portmanteau.

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