vapor

Language: en

Meaning: Cloudydiffused matter such asmist,steamorfumessuspended in theair.1892,James Yoxall, chapter 5, inThe Lonely Pyramid:The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellowvapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.; Thegaseousstate of a substance that is normally asolidorliquid.2013July-August,Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name):Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solventvaporsat 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.; (idiomatic)Somethinginsubstantial,fleeting, ortransitory;unrealfancy;vainimagination;idletalk;boasting.1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,James4:14:For what is your life? It is even avapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.1781, Horace Walpole," ":I am at this present very sick of my littlevapourof fame.1822, Charles Perkins,An Oration, page19:The press operates as a safety-valve for thevaporof popular ebullision.1875, Albert Barnes,Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the General Epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude, page80: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 merevapor.1999, Martin Heidegger,An Introduction to Metaphysics, page50: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 merevaporfor us or become the destiny of the West is anything but an exaggeration and a rhetorical figure.; (dated)Anymedicinalagentdesigned for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.1836, Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis, Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, Charles Cowan,Pathological Researches on Phthisis, page287:Sulphurous fumes have also been recommended, as well as diffusing a variety ofvaporsin the apartment of the patient; on their beneficial or injurious effects we are unable to speak.1854November, Samuel A. Cartwright, “The Case of a Lady in a sugar-house, with Aphonic, Haemorrhagic, Tubercular Phthisis in the Softening State”, inBoston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume51, number14, page275:Hence thevapor, so useful in expanding the compressed tissues and enabling the air to permeate and expand the contracted parenchyma in consumption, causes a sensation of great fatigue in asthma.1861, Charles Mathews,On fumigation of the lungs, throat, &c, page 1:Professor Matthews has at length the pleasure, after much unaboidable delay, of respectfully announcin to the Faculty, that he is prepared to fill their prescriptions by any practicable formula, in the use of his new method of applying medicinalvaporsto the lungs, air-passages, & c., by means of the Multiform Fumigator .1944,Quarterly Review of Otorhinolaryngology and Broncho-esophagology, page68:The physician can now prescribe medicinalvaporsto be dropped on some cotton placed inside the inhaler.; (archaic,in theplural)Hypochondria;melancholy; theblues;hysteria, or other nervous disorder.Jan 13, 1732,John Arbuthnot, letter toJonathan SwiftHe talks me into a fit ofvapourstwice or thrice a week.1938,Norman Lindsay,Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.:Ure Smith, published1962,→OCLC, page188:She made several gulps and controlled her breath. She released her grip on Podson and stared at him without recognition. Podson went on patting her reassuringly, relieved from administering first aid to an attack of thevapours.; (obsolete)Wind;flatulence.1605,Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, inThe Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London:[…][Thomas PurfootandThomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes,[…],→OCLC:The surcharge of the stomack from a grossvapour, and from the poise of some outward weight, are alike

Examples:

EN: The mold pours forth flames and vapor.
ES: El molde larga llamas y vapor.
EN: The vapor.
ES: El vapor.
EN: The vapor we breathed when I dropped the graduate.
ES: El vapor que respiramos cuando rompí la probeta.
EN: Yet this man only had the vapor of 4 minims.
ES: Este hombre solo tenía 4 milimetros de vapor.
EN: You got plenty of gas and the valve is turned on. It must have been a vapor lock.
ES: Debe haber sido el cierre de la válvula de vapor.
EN: It says that this vapor can be produced without a catalyst.
ES: Dice que este vapor no se puede producir sin un catalizador.
EN: "Unique vapor survivor Tulare sunk by the mines.
ES: "Único superviviente del vapor Tulare hundido por las minas.
EN: Sometimes, it appears as a bat, sometimes, as a werewolf, and sometimes, as a small cloud of swirling vapor.
ES: A veces, aparece como murciélago, otras, como hombre lobo y, otras, como una pequeña nube de humo.
EN: Higher and higher, into the lifeless stratosphere, until the exhaust of the engines mixing with the cold thin air condenses and streams the heavens with vapor trails.
ES: Alto y más alto, dentro de la estratosfera inerte. hasta el agotamiento de los motores, mezclados con la condensación del aire, y tiñen los cielos de estelas de vapor.
EN: You will look back with me across the years... that pass like vapor before thine eyes.
ES: Mirarás atrás conmigo a través de los años... que pasarán como el vapor ante tus ojos.
EN: I had rather be a toad and live upon the vapor of a dungeon..
ES: "Antes preferiría ser un sapo,... viviendo de los vapores de un calabozo,... que guardar para otros un solo rincón... "
EN: If I may be permitted a suggestion, has Your Majesty tried pine needles in boiling water. - Inhaling the vapor under a towel?
ES: S¡ me perm¡tís suger¡rlo, ¿ha probado su Majestad... a ¡nhalar el vapor de hojas de p¡no en agua h¡rv¡endo?
EN: If I might again suggest inhaling the vapor of pine needles.
ES: Vuelvo a suger¡ros que ¡nhalé¡s el vapor...
EN: Instead of pressing it, remove it and the vapor will diffuse and disappear!
ES: Y queréis comprimirla y eliminarla, y el humo se esparcirá y desaparecerá.
EN: To the deafening roar of the pneumatic freight elevators, the butchers and the climbers work under the heavy vapor given off by the blood of the beasts.
ES: Al ensordecedor estruendo de los montacargas neumáticos, los carniceros y los escaldadores trabajan bajo el pesado vaho desprendido por la sangre de las bestias.

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