Vapors

Word VAPORS
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Definitions and meanings of "Vapors"

What do we mean by vapors?

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

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

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

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

(in the plural) Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.

Wind; flatulence.

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The word "vapors" in example sentences

Like many people, I enjoy the moist aroma and sinus-soothing vapors from a pot of boiling water. ❋ The Nag (2008)

… It monitors vapors from the skin and sends them to a modem for data collection. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Note 126: Locally distilled liquor, called moonshine by the twentieth century, was made with molasses, hops, and oats boiled in a pot from which a coiling tube extended; the coil was passed through cold water, causing the vapors from the boiling mixture to condense. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Violent thunder-storms, with showers of rain and hail, are frequent accompaniments of volcanic eruptions everywhere; but owing to the coldness and dryness of the air into which the vapors from the Icelandic volcanoes ascend, their condensation is so sudden and violent that great quantities of electricity are developed. ❋ Charles Morris (1877)

It drew out the sympathy of the wise and the good of other lands besides our own, as the morning sun draws vapors from the earth; and from that hour the breath of prayer has been burdened for him, until he reached the happy place where dangers no more cluster, where prayer is no more needed. ❋ Unknown (1865)

“It’s unclear to me that making martyrs out of Cheney, Bybee, etc., in the eyes of the 30% dead enders and giving Beltway media types the vapors is actually the best way to deter future torturers rather than entrench torture as an option that “tough minded realists” will fight for in the face of political with hunts.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

It’s unclear to me that making martyrs out of Cheney, Bybee, etc., in the eyes of the 30% dead enders and giving Beltway media types the vapors is actually the best way to deter future torturers rather than entrench torture as an option that “tough minded realists” will fight for in the face of political with hunts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Back in the days when women often came down with a mysterious malady called the vapors, a cup of chamomile tea was often prescribed to relieve female anxiety. ❋ Earl Mindell (2008)

The arrangements for the admission of air and carrying along the vapors are the same as in the other case. ❋ Various (N/A)

The principle of the Seyfferth pyrometer is based on the fact that the pressure of saturated vapors, that is, vapors which remain in communication with the liquid which has produced them, preserves a constant ratio with the temperature of such liquid, while, on the other hand, the temperature of the latter when shut up in a vessel will correspond exactly with that of the medium into which it is introduced. ❋ Various (N/A)

The vapors is a malady common to people in fortunate situations: the tears I frequently shed, without reason; the lively alarms I felt on the falling of a leaf, or the fluttering of a bird; inequality of humor in the calm of a most pleasing life; lassitude which made me weary even of happiness, and carried sensibility to extravagance, were an instance of this. ❋ Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1896)

(However, pumping your gas when it's cooler does mean less release of vapors, which is better for the environment.) ❋ CostBenefit (2010)

Farfán noted that if people would only take care of their stomachs, they would suffer less from other disorders such as gout, dolor de ijada, and urinary track problems. 57 In this medical model, in which diseases were not seen as distinct entities but, rather, as temporary concentrations of humors, fluids, or "vapors," pain and malfunction in one area of the body could easily migrate elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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