vapour

vapour

englanti

  1. kaasu, höyry

Synonyymisanakirja

vapour

kiehuttaminen, pilvistyminen, faasinmuutos, olomuodonmuutos, olotilan muutos, fysikaalinen muutos, savu, käry, höyrystyminen, höyrystys, haihtuminen, haihdunta, vesihöyry, höyry, huuru.

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Englannin sanakirja

vapour englanniksi

  1. cloud Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.

  2. (quote-book)

  3. The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.

  4. puhekieltä wind Wind; flatulence.

    5. (rfquotek)

  5. Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.

  6. Bible, (w) iv. 14

    7. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

  7. puhekieltä hypochondria Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.

  8. (w) (1688-1744)

    9. a fit of vapours

  9. puhekieltä Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.

  10. puhekieltä To become vapour; to be emitted or circulated as vapour.

  11. puhekieltä To turn into vapour.

    12. to vapour away a heated fluid

  12. Ben Jonson

    13. He'd laugh to see one throw his heart away, / Another, sighing, vapour forth his soul.

  13. puhekieltä To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.

  14. 1888, (w), ‘The Bisara of Pooree’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, p. 172:

    15. He vapoured, and fretted, and fumed, and trotted up and down, and tried to make himself pleasing in Miss Hollis's big, quiet, grey eyes, and failed.

  15. 1904, (w), ‘Reginald's Christmas Revel’, Reginald:

    16. then the Major gave us a graphic account of a struggle he had with a wounded bear. I privately wished that the bears would win sometimes on these occasions; at least they wouldn't go vapouring about it afterwards.

  16. 1978, (w), Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 513:

    17. He felt he would start vapouring with devotion if this went on, so he bruptly took his leave with a cold expression on his face which dismayed her for she thought that it was due to distain for her artistic opinions.

  17. To emit vapour or fumes.

  18. Francis Bacon

    19. Running waters vapour not so much as standing waters.

  19. 1978, (w), Livia, Faber

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