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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024va•por /ˈveɪpɚ/USA pronunciation n. - Meteorologya visible mass of tiny particles, as fog, mist, or smoke, floating or hanging in the air: [countable]the vapors rising from the bog.[uncountable]clouds of vapor.
- Physics a substance that has been made into the form of a gas:[uncountable]water vapor.
- [uncountable] a substance changed into this steamlike mass of particles for medical uses.
Also,[esp. Brit.,] ˈva•pour. va•por•a•ble, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024va•por (vā′pər),USA pronunciation n. - Meteorologya visible exhalation, as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air:the vapors rising from the bogs.
- Physicsa gas at a temperature below its critical temperature.
- a substance converted into vapor for technical or medicinal uses.
- a combination of a vaporized substance and air.
- gaseous particles of drugs that can be inhaled as a therapeutic agent.
- [Archaic.]
- a strange, senseless, or fantastic notion.
- something insubstantial or transitory.
- vapors, [Archaic.]
- mental depression or hypochondria.
- injurious exhalations formerly supposed to be produced within the body, esp. in the stomach.
v.t. - to cause to rise or pass off in, or as if in, vapor;
vaporize. - [Archaic.]to affect with vapors;
depress.
v.i. - to rise or pass off in the form of vapor.
- to emit vapor or exhalations.
- to talk or act grandiloquently, pompously, or boastfully* bluster.
Also,[esp. Brit.,] vapour. - Latin vapor steam
- Middle English vapour 1325–75
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