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vaporize, v.|ˈveɪpəraɪz|
Also 9 vapour-.
[f. L. vapōr- vapour n. + -ize. Cf. F. vaporiser.]
1. trans. To convert into smoke. rare—1.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 119 marg. note, Forty load of Tobacco vaporized.
2. To convert into vapour.
α1803Phil. Trans. XCIII. 26 The reguline zinc, vaporized by the heat, rises from the crucible as a metallic gas. 1849R. V. Dixon Heat I. 193 The vapour was projected..with a loud, whistling noise, which subsided when the liquid was all vaporised. 1878J. J. Young Ceramic Art 81 The heat vaporizes the salt, and..the chlorine escapes.
β1836Smart, To vapourize. 1884J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild H. 110 The hot air vapourising the drops.
b. In fig. use.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. vi, In figurative language, we might say he becomes..spiritualised, vaporised. 1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Gr. I. x. 175 They have not only vaporized her husband into a myth, but have consolidated a myth into a lover. 1888Dowling Miracle Gold III. xxvii. 15 The family estates and honours had been vapourized before that last of the Poniatowskis fell under Napoleon.
3. intr. To become vaporous.
1828–32Webster, Vaporize,..to pass off in vapour. 1855Scoffern in Orr's Circ. Sci., Elem. Chem. 458 Zinc does not vapourize until the heat is raised to whiteness. 1872Athenæum 20 Jan. 84/2 Faraday..stated..that mercury ceased to vapourize below the freezing-point. 1881Tyndall Ess. Floating Matter Air 196 The liquid within the narrow tube vaporizes.
fig.1892Black & White 2 Apr. 423/1 Money seems somehow to have vaporised away, and none knows anything about it.
4. trans. To spray with fine particles of liquid.
1900O. Onions Compl. Bachelor v. 51 My hostess..vapourised me in passing with a tiny scent fountain.
Hence ˈvaporized ppl. a.; ˈvaporizing vbl. n. (also attrib.).
1839Ure Dict. Arts 823 Chambers into which the *vaporized substances are deposited. 1880Haughton Phys. Geogr. iii. 124 We must reduce the vaporised water capable of producing rain. 1888Daily News 15 May 6/2 Small launches..propelled by means of vapourised spirit.
1831–3Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 189/1 The valve before described, attached to the *vaporizing apparatus. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2690/2 Vaporizing stove, one for furnishing steam to dampen the air of apartments, conservatories, etc. 1886Jrnl. Education 1 Aug. 325 Without this all theorising is empty vapourising. 1896Daily News 15 July 8/4 The vaporising and condensing of ammonia. |