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Grammar : Noun
Spell : vey-per
Phonetic Transcription : ˈveɪ pər

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Définition of vapor

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Anglo-French vapour, from Latin vaporem (nominative vapor) "exhalation, steam, heat," of unknown origin. Vapors "fit of fainting, hysteria, etc." is 1660s, from medieval notion of "exhalations" from the stomach or other organs affecting the brain.
  • noun fumes, mist
Example sentences :
  • An embarrassed silence fell like a vapor over the assemblage.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • The air of Berlin was cool and the excess of vapor had been frozen out of it.
  • Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
  • The vapor from our nostrils froze in masses of ice upon our beards.
  • Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
  • A simple experiment will show that no bacteria will exist in that vapor.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 417 » by Various
  • Mrs. Alexander smiled at him across the vapor from the kettle.
  • Extract from : « Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ » by Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes
  • What I have done is to condense some of that vapor into a solid.
  • Extract from : « Spawn of the Comet » by Harold Thompson Rich
  • There was not a sound, not a soul, not a puff of that vapor which was like the very breath of the place.
  • Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola
  • The stars could not struggle through the vapor that lay beneath them.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
  • As the vapor rises from the mixture and goes into the worm, it cools and condenses.
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • At about 7,000 degrees it will fuse, and pass into a vapor which causes the intense illumination.
  • Extract from : « Electricity for Boys » by J. S. Zerbe

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