vapor

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.

   “The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.”

2. isim The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
3. isim Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.

   “For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”

4. isim Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.

   “Sulphurous fumes have also been recommended, as well as diffusing a variety of vapors in the apartment of the patient; on their beneficial or injurious effects we are unable to speak.”

5. isim Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.

   “Jan 13, 1732, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift He talks me into a fit of vapours twice or thrice a week.”

6. isim Wind; flatulence.

   “The surcharge of the stomack from a gross vapour, and from the poise of some outward weight, are alike”

7. fiil To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
8. fiil To turn into vapor.

   “to vapor away a heated fluid”

9. fiil To emit vapor or fumes.

   “Running waters vapour not so much as standing waters.”

10. fiil To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.

    “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.”

11. fiil To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore.

    ““I only mean,” cried she, giddily, “that he might have some place a little more pleasant to live in, for really that old moat and draw-bridge are enough to vapour him to death […].””