| 单词 | vapor |
| 释义 | vapor (once / 869 pages) n When something that is normally liquid — like water — becomes a visible, gas-like substance floating in the air, it's a vapor. The fog that often settles across your town in the mornings is one kind of vapor. Mist is also a vapor, as is your frozen breath when you can see it on a cold winter day. The Latin root word is vaporem, "exhalation, steam, or heat." WORD FAMILYvapor: vaporing, vaporise, vaporish, vaporize, vaporous, vapors+/vaporing: vaporings/vaporise: vaporisation, vaporised, vaporiser, vaporising/vaporish: vaporishly/vaporize: vaporizable, vaporization, vaporized, vaporizer, vaporizes, vaporizing/vaporizer: vaporizers/vaporous: vaporously, vaporousness USAGE EXAMPLESPowered by a battery, e-cigarettes turn liquid nicotine into an inhalable vapor without the harmful tar generated by regular cigarettes. Washington Times(Dec 16, 2016) Is now an indivisible instant, a line of vapor between the past and the future? The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) The report joins a public debate about the potential benefits and risks of e-cigarettes, which are battery-powered devices that heat nicotine-laced liquid into a vapor. Wall Street Journal(Dec 08, 2016) 1n a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance Syn|Hypo|Hyper vapour steam water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere water vapor, water vapourwater in a vaporous form diffused in the atmosphere but below boiling temperature live steamsteam coming from a boiler at full pressure spraywater in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall suspension a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy 2n the process of becoming a vapor Syn|Hypo|Hyper evaporation, vaporisation, vaporization, vapour boiling the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas clouding, clouding upthe process whereby water particles become visible in the sky smoke, smokinga hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion decoction mashing, decoction process(brewing) a process in which part of the mash is removed and boiled and then returned phase change, phase transition, physical change, state change a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition |
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