Thesaurus: vapor
Any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.
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Definitions
- n. Any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.
- n. In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.
- n. Wind; flatulence.
- n. Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
- n. An old name for hypochondria, or melancholy; the blues.
- n. A medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor.
- n. To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.
- n. To emit vapor or fumes.
- n. To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.
- v. t. To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.
- n. a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance
- n. the process of becoming a vapor