vapour

vapour

englanti

1. kaasu, höyry

Synonyymisanakirja: vapour

vapour

1. kiehuttaminen, pilvistyminen, faasinmuutos, olomuodonmuutos, olotilan muutos, fysikaalinen muutos, savu, käry, höyrystyminen, höyrystys, haihtuminen, haihdunta, vesihöyry, höyry, huuru.

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Riimisanakirja: vapour

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1. happy hour, glamour...

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Käännökset: vapour

vapour suomeksi

haihtuminen, huuru, höyry

vapour englanniksi

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

• (quote-book)

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

• puhekieltä wind Wind; flatulence.

(rfquotek)

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

• Bible, (w) iv. 14

For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

• puhekieltä hypochondria Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.

• (w) (1688-1744)

a fit of vapours

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

• puhekieltä To become vapour; to be emitted or circulated as vapour.

• puhekieltä To turn into vapour.

to vapour away a heated fluid

• Ben Jonson

He'd laugh to see one throw his heart away, / Another, sighing, vapour forth his soul.

• puhekieltä To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.

• 1888, (w), ‘The Bisara of Pooree’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, p. 172:

He vapoured, and fretted, and fumed, and trotted up and down, and tried to make himself pleasing in Miss Hollis's big, quiet, grey eyes, and failed.

• 1904, (w), ‘Reginald's Christmas Revel’, Reginald:

then the Major gave us a graphic account of a struggle he had with a wounded bear. I privately wished that the bears would win sometimes on these occasions; at least they wouldn't go vapouring about it afterwards.

• 1978, (w), Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 513:

He felt he would start vapouring with devotion if this went on, so he bruptly took his leave with a cold expression on his face which dismayed her for she thought that it was due to distain for her artistic opinions.

• To emit vapour or fumes.

• Francis Bacon

Running waters vapour not so much as standing waters.

• 1978, (w), Livia, Faber

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