Word Meanings - VAPORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To emit vapor; to evaporate.

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• VAPORATE
  To emit vapor; to evaporate.
• VAPORY
  1. Full of vapors; vaporous. 2. Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• VAPORER
  One who vapors; a braggart. Vaporer moth. See Orgyia.
• 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.
• EVAPORATE
  1. To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible. 2. To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates
• VAPORING
  Talking idly; boasting; vaunting. -- Va"por*ing*ly, adv.
• VAPOR GALVANIZING
  A process for coating metal surfaces with zinc by exposing them to the vapor of zinc instead of, as in ordinary galvanizing, to molten zinc; -- called also Sherardizing. Vapor galvanizing is accomplished by heating the articles to be galvanized
• VAPOR PRESSURE; VAPOR TENSION
  The pressure or tension of a confined body of vapor. The pressure of a given saturated vapor is a function of the temperature only, and may be measured by introducing a small quantity of the substance into a barometer and noting the depression of
• VAPORIZER
  One who, or that which, vaporizes, or converts into vapor.
• VAPORED
  1. Wet with vapors; moist. 2. Affected with the vapors. See Vapor, n., 5.
• 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.
• EVAPORABLE
  Capable of being converted into vapor, or dissipated by evaporation.