vapor

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈveɪpə/    美 /ˈveɪpɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air. US,countable,uncountable
    — 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. The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid. US,countable,uncountable
    — Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
  3. Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. US,countable,idiomatic,uncountable
    — For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
  4. Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour. US,countable,dated,uncountable
    — 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. Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder. US,archaic,countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — Jan 13, 1732, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift He talks me into a fit of vapours twice or thrice a week.
  6. Wind; flatulence. US,countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — The surcharge of the stomack from a gross vapour, and from the poise of some outward weight, are alike
动词 v.
  1. To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor. US,intransitive
  2. To turn into vapor. US,transitive
    — to vapor away a heated fluid
  3. To emit vapor or fumes. US
    — Running waters vapour not so much as standing waters.
  4. To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster. US,intransitive
    — 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.
  5. To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore. US,transitive
    — “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 […].”

词形变化

vapors plural vapour alternative,Commonwealth vapors present,singular,third-person vaporing participle,present vapored participle,past vapored past vapour alternative,Commonwealth

词汇关系

衍生词
aqueous vapor equilibrium vapor pressure mercury-vapor lamp saturated vapor pressure saturation vapor pressure sodium vapor lamp vapor barrier vaporescence vaporescent vapor lock vapor pen vapor pressure vapor retarder vapor trail vaporware water vapor
相关词
dew point get the vapors

词源

词源 1
From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”).
词源 2
From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”).
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