Word Meanings - VAPORIZER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who, or that which, vaporizes, or converts into vapor.
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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. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - VAPOR
Any substance in the gaseous, or aƫriform, 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 - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - 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. - 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. - 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.