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/ˈveɪpə/ · noun
Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air..
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.
Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
I am at this present very sick of my little vapour of fame.
The press operates as a safety-valve for the vapor of popular ebullision.
The previous question had turned the attention to life as something peculiarly frail, and as of such a nature that no calculation could be based on its permanence. This expression gives a reason for that, to wit, that it is a mere vapor.
Here we can explain only in these broad outlines why the asking of the question of being is in itself through and through historical, and why, accordingly, our question as to whether being will remain a mere vapor for us or become the destiny of the West is anything but an exaggeration and a rhetorical figure.
Sulphurous fumes have also been recommended, as well as diffusing a variety of vapors in the apartment of the patient; on their beneficial or injurious effects we are unable to speak.
Use vapor when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Vapor means Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air..
Common synonyms include vapour, evaporation, vaporization, vaporisation.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.
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