vapour

Speech parts

1. vapour - Noun

2. vapour - Verb

Meaning

a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

vapor phantom chimera chimaera air gas depression steamship fume steam cloud smoke exhaust moisture humidity
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Antonyms

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Hypernyms

suspension physical change phase transition phase change

Hyponyms

steam smoke boiling smoking clouding water vapor

Phrases with the word

moisture vapour aqueous vapour hot water vapour moisture vapour transmission rate noxious vapour pressurised water vapour

Examples

Music...is the vapour of art. It is to poetry what revery is to thought, what the fluid is to the liquid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves. Victor Hugo

The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour. Pieter Zeeman

As palace mirror'd in the stream, as vapour mingled with the skies, So weaves the brain of mortal man the tangled web of Truth and Lies. Richard Francis Burton

Civilisation knows how to use such powers as it has, while the immense potentiality of the unlicensed is dissipated in vapour. John Buchan

I know that through the grace of God I am the founder of Manitoba; I know that though I have no open road for my influence, I have big influence concentrated, as a big amount of vapour in an engine. Louis Riel

GLOUCESTER Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smotherd. But God be thanked.... William Shakespeare

Close letter words and terms

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