Word Meanings - TRANSPIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.

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• VAPORATE
  To emit vapor; to evaporate.
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• VAPORY
  1. Full of vapors; vaporous. 2. Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.
• EXHALE
  1. To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia. Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales. Pope. 2. To draw out; to cause to be emitted
• VAPORIFORM
  Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.
• VAPOR
  Any substance in the gaseous, or aëriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid. Note: The term vapor is sometimes used in a more extended sense, as identical with gas; and the difference between the two is not
• VAPOROUS
  1. Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable
• EXHALEMENT
  Exhalation.
• VAPORATION
  The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation.
• VAPORIFIC
  Producing vapor; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor; thus, volatile fluids are vaporific; heat is a vaporific agent.
• PERSPIRATION
  1. The act or process of perspiring. 2. That which is excreted through the skin; sweat. Note: A man of average weight throws off through the skin during 24 hours about 18 ounces of water, 300 grains of solid matter, and 400 grains of carbonic acid
• VAPORIFEROUS
  Conveying or producing vapor.
• VAPORIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the volume or the tension of any vapor; specifically, an instrument of this sort used as an alcoholometer in testing spirituous liquors.
• VAPORISH
  1. Full of vapors; vaporous. 2. Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome. Pallas grew vap'rish once and odd. Pope.
• VAPORABLE
  Capable of being converted into vapor by the agency of heat; vaporizable.
• EXHALENCE
  Exhalation.
• VAPORER
  One who vapors; a braggart. Vaporer moth. See Orgyia.
• INSENSIBLE
  1. Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility. Milton. 2. Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; apathetic; unconcerned; indifferent; as, insensible to danger, fear, love, etc.; -- often used with
• VAPORIZATION
  The act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler.
• VAPOROUSNESS
  The quality of being vaporous.
• EVAPORATION
  See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.
• EVAPORATOR
  An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.
• EVAPOROMETER
  An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.
• EVAPORATIVE
  Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.