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VAPOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of becoming a vapor
Synonyms:
evaporation; vapor; vaporisation; vaporization; vapour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("vapor" is a kind of...):
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "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)
smoke; smoking (a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion)
Derivation:
evaporate (lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue)
evaporate (change into a vapor)
evaporate (cause to change into a vapor)
vaporise (lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue)
vaporise (turn into gas)
vaporize (lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue)
vaporize (turn into gas)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance
Synonyms:
vapor; vapour
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vapor" is a kind of...):
suspension (a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vapor"):
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)
Derivation:
evaporate (change into a vapor)
evaporate (cause to change into a vapor)
vaporise (lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue)
vaporise (turn into gas)
vaporize (lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue)
vaporize (turn into gas)
vaporous (filled with vapor)
vaporous (resembling or characteristic of vapor)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb vapor
Context examples:
Water vapor is carried up with the same air mass rising with the dust.
(Dust Storms Linked to Gas Escape from Mars Atmosphere, NASA)
When big pollen particles break into fine ones, they can take up water vapor in the air to promote the formation of clouds, potentially altering weather systems as a result.
(Estimating how pollen particles in the atmosphere influence climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Acute exposure to its vapors results in irritation of the eyes, skin, and respiratory tract.
(Acetaldehyde, NCI Thesaurus)
Being exposed to tobacco smoke, air pollution, dusts, vapors, and fumes can also cause acute bronchitis.
(Acute Bronchitis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Issue associated with the visibility, odor, or toxicity of an ambient vapor or gas which affects the operation of the device.
(Fume or Vapor in Medical Device Environment, Food and Drug Administration)
An engine designed to produce electricity or a device designed to produce a vapor or gas.
(Generator Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
A brand of cryofreezers designed to store samples in liquid nitrogen or vapor phase liquid nitrogen.
(MVE Freezer, NCI Thesaurus)
A temporary atmosphere would be consistent with the water vapor the Herschel Space Observatory detected at Ceres in 2012-2013.
(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)
Nebulizer pumps air or oxygen through a liquid medicine to turn it into a vapor, which is then inhaled by the patient.
(Nebulizer, NCI Thesaurus)
When 1,4-dichlorobenzene is heated to decomposition, toxic gases and vapors (such as hydrochloric acid and carbon monoxide) are released.
(Paradichlorobenzene, NCI Thesaurus)
