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va⋅por

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–noun
1. a visible exhalation, as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air: the vapors rising from the bogs.
2. Physics. a gas at a temperature 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 or transitory.
7. vapors, Archaic.
a. mental depression or hypochondria.
b. injurious exhalations formerly supposed to be produced within the body, esp. in the stomach.
–verb (used with object)
8. to cause to rise or pass off in, or as if in, vapor; vaporize.
9. Archaic. to affect with vapors; depress.
–verb (used without object)
10. to rise or pass off in the form of vapor.
11. to emit vapor or exhalations.
12. to talk or act grandiloquently, pompously, or boastfully; bluster.
Also, especially British, vapour.

Origin:
1325–75; ME vapour < L vapor steam

Related forms:
va⋅por⋅a⋅ble, adjective
va⋅por⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
va⋅por⋅er, noun
va⋅por⋅less, adjective
va⋅por⋅like, adjective
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va·por   (vā'pər)   
n.  

  1. Barely visible or cloudy diffused matter, such as mist, fumes, or smoke, suspended in the air.

    1. The state of a substance that exists below its critical temperature and that may be liquefied by application of sufficient pressure.

    2. The gaseous state of a substance that is liquid or solid under ordinary conditions.

    3. The vaporized form of a substance for use in industrial, military, or medical processes.

    4. A mixture of a vapor and air, as the explosive gasoline-air mixture burned in an internal-combustion engine.

    5. Something insubstantial, worthless, or fleeting.

    6. A fantastic or foolish idea.

    7. Exhalations within a bodily organ, especially the stomach, supposed to affect the mental or physical condition. Used with the.

    8. A nervous disorder such as depression or hysteria. Used with the.

    1. The vaporized form of a substance for use in industrial, military, or medical processes.

    2. A mixture of a vapor and air, as the explosive gasoline-air mixture burned in an internal-combustion engine.

    3. Something insubstantial, worthless, or fleeting.

    4. A fantastic or foolish idea.

    5. Exhalations within a bodily organ, especially the stomach, supposed to affect the mental or physical condition. Used with the.

    6. A nervous disorder such as depression or hysteria. Used with the.

  4. Archaic

    1. Something insubstantial, worthless, or fleeting.

    2. A fantastic or foolish idea.

    3. Exhalations within a bodily organ, especially the stomach, supposed to affect the mental or physical condition. Used with the.

    4. A nervous disorder such as depression or hysteria. Used with the.

  5. vapors Archaic

    1. Exhalations within a bodily organ, especially the stomach, supposed to affect the mental or physical condition. Used with the.

    2. A nervous disorder such as depression or hysteria. Used with the.

v.   va·pored, va·por·ing, va·pors

v.   tr.
To vaporize.
v.   intr.

  1. To give off vapor.

  2. To evaporate.

  3. To engage in idle, boastful talk.


[Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin vapor.]
va'por·er n.
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Word Origin & History

vapor 
c.1374, from Anglo-Fr. vapour, from L. vaporem (nom. vapor) "exhalation, steam, heat," of unknown origin. Vapors "fit of fainting, hysteria, etc." is 1662, from medieval notion of "exhalations" from the stomach or other organs affecting the brain. Vaporize (v.) is attested from 1634, originally "to smoke tobacco," later "to convert into vapor" (1803), and "to spray with fine mist" (1900).
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: va·por
Variant: or chiefly British va·pour /'vA-p&r/
Function: noun
1 a : a substance in the gaseousstate as distinguished from the liquid or solid state b : a substance (as gasoline, alcohol, mercury, or benzoin) vaporized for industrial, therapeutic, or military uses
2vapors or chiefly British vapours pl a : exhalations of bodily organs (as the stomach) formerly held to affect the physical or mental condition b : a depressed or hysterical nervous condition
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Medical Dictionary

vapor va·por (vā'pər)
n.

  1. Barely visible or cloudy diffused matter, such as mist, fumes, or smoke, suspended in the air.

  2. The state of a substance that exists below its critical temperature and that may be liquefied by application of sufficient pressure.

  3. The gaseous state of a substance that is liquid or solid under ordinary conditions.

  4. The vaporized form of a medicinal preparation to be administered by inhalation.

  5. A mixture of a vapor and air, as an explosive mixture of gasoline and air burned in an internal-combustion engine.

  6. vapors Exhalations within an organ, especially the stomach, supposed to affect the mental or physical condition. No longer in technical use.

  7. vapors A nervous disorder such as depression or hysteria. No longer in technical use.

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