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ALL meanings of vapour

va·pour
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  • noun vapour a visible exhalation, as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air: the vapors rising from the bogs. 1
  • noun vapour Physics. a gas at a temperature below its critical temperature. 1
  • noun vapour a substance converted into vapor for technical or medicinal uses. 1
  • noun vapour a combination of a vaporized substance and air. 1
  • noun vapour gaseous particles of drugs that can be inhaled as a therapeutic agent. 1
  • noun vapour Archaic. a strange, senseless, or fantastic notion. something insubstantial or transitory. 1
  • noun vapour vapors, Archaic. mental depression or hypochondria. injurious exhalations formerly supposed to be produced within the body, especially in the stomach. 1
  • verb with object vapour to cause to rise or pass off in, or as if in, vapor; vaporize. 1
  • verb with object vapour Archaic. to affect with vapors; depress. 1
  • verb without object vapour to rise or pass off in the form of vapor. 1
  • verb without object vapour to emit vapor or exhalations. 1
  • verb without object vapour to talk or act grandiloquently, pompously, or boastfully; bluster. 1
  • variable noun vapour Vapour consists of tiny drops of water or other liquids in the air, which appear as mist. 0
  • noun vapour particles of moisture or other substance suspended in air and visible as clouds, smoke, etc 0
  • noun vapour a gaseous substance at a temperature below its critical temperature 0
  • noun vapour a substance that is in a gaseous state at a temperature below its boiling point 0
  • noun vapour something fanciful that lacks substance or permanence 0
  • verb vapour to evaporate or cause to evaporate; vaporize 0
  • verb vapour to make vain empty boasts; brag 0
  • abbreviation VAPOUR vapor 0
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