Vapour

Definitions: Vapour

Vapour

Noun

1. A visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance.

2. The process of becoming a vapor.

Date "vapour" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Mechanical Engineering	Any substance in a gaseous state not far from the liquefaction conditions. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
VAD	English	Vapour axial deposition	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Vapour

Synonyms: evaporation (n), vapor (n), vaporisation (n), vaporization (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	Infrared vapour spectra; group frequency correlations, sample handling and the examination of gas chromatographic fractions (reference) Metal Vapour Ion Lasers: Kinetic Processes and Gas Discharges (reference) Metal Vapour Lasers: Physics, Engineering and Applications (reference) The molecular geometries of coordination compounds in the vapour phase (reference) The vapour pressures of pure substances; selected values of the temperature dependence of the vapour pressures of some pure substances in the normal and low pressure region (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Captain Vapour Athletes (reference) Vapour Trail [CD-SINGLE] (reference) Vapour Trails [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Marius could hardly discern her through the luminous vapour which suddenly spread over his eyes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Vapour" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.19% of the time. "Vapour" is used about 387 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.19%	380	14,447
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	1.03%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	0.52%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.26%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	387	N/A

Expressions using "vapour": acqueous vapour ♦ chemical vapour deposition ♦ condenser for vapour engines ♦ extinction using vapour ♦ extinguishing vapour ♦ impressed vapour pressure ♦ Reid vapour pressure test ♦ superheated vapour ♦ vapour bath ♦ vapour density ♦ vapour lock ♦ vapour motor ♦ vapour phase epitaxy ♦ vapour pressure ♦ vapour tension ♦ vapour trail ♦ vapour trial ♦ water vapour ♦ water vapour band ♦ water vapour pressure. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "vapour": vapour-check, vapour-phase, vapour-resistant, vapour-transport-grown.
	Ending with "vapour": water-vapour.
	Containing "vapour": sodium-vapour lamp.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "vapour"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mjegull (brume, curtain, damp, exhalation, fog, mist, smog, toman, vapor), iluzion (delusion, hallucination, illusion, phantom, trick, vapor, will-o'-the-wisp), avull (blur, exhalation, fume, reek, steam, vapor), ëndërr e kotë (vapor). (various references)

Arabic		‏وهم (bubble, delusion, fancy, idol, illusion, illusory, imagination, phantom, prestige, purport, vagary, vapor), ‏ضباب (film, fog, gauze, haze, mirk, mist, murk, reek, vapor), ‏بخار (fume, halitosis, reek, steam, vapor). (various references)

Basque		lurrun (steam). (various references)

Bulgarian		хваля се (boast, bounce, brag, flourish, glory, rodomontade, splurge, swagger, talk big, talk tall, vapor, vaunt), химера (chimera, vapor), от пара (vapor), нещо недействително (shadow, vapor), мъгла (blur, brume, exhalation, fog, mirk, murk, vapor), парен (steam, steamy, vapor, vaporous), пара (coin, exhalation, money, necessary, ready, reek, steam, vapor), пари (cash, chink, currency, dough, dross, dust, funds, kale, loot, money, needful, pelf, pile, pocket, purse, ready, rhino, scratch, shiners, smart, splosh, stuff, tin, vapor, wad, wampum), изпарявам се (boil down, dry off, evaporate, exhale, fume, make one's scarce, make oneself scarce, mosey, ooze, scat, skedaddle, steam away, vanish into the void, vapor, vaporize, volatilize), изпарения (damp, emanation, vapor), илюзия (deception, delusion, dream, fantasy, glamor, glamour, illusion, maya, phantasm, phantasy, phantom, vapor). (various references)

Chinese		�'��" (Vapor). (various references)

Czech		výpar (reek, vapor), pára (steam, vapor). (various references)

Danish		damp (dAMP, deoxyadenosine-5'-monophosphate, deoxyadenylate, steam, vapor). (various references)

Dutch		damp (fog, fume, mist, smoke, steam, vapor), wasem (steam, vapor), stoom (steam, vapor). (various references)

Esperanto		vaporo (steam, vapor), akvovaporo. (various references)

Faeroese		guva (steam, vapor), dampur (steam, vapor). (various references)

Finnish		höyry (steam, stream, vapor). (various references)

French		vapeur (vapor). (various references)

Frisian		steam (steam, vapor), damp (fog, fuzzy, mist, misty, moist, steam, vapor). (various references)

German		Dampf (flash steam, flashed steam, fume, steam, vapor), Schwaden (billow, cloud, drift, fumes, swath, swathe, swathes, swathing, swaths, windrow, winrow). (various references)

Greek		ατμός (steam). (various references)

Hebrew		קיטור (steam, vapor), א�" (fume, gas, mist, steam, vapor), �"בל (blether, emptiness, futility, steam, vanity, vapor). (various references)

Hungarian		pára (aqueous vapour, critter, damp, fog, fume, haze, smoke, steam, vapor). (various references)

Icelandic		gufa (steam, vapor), eimur (steam, vapor). (various references)

Indonesian		uap (steam). (various references)

Italian		vapore (fume, fumes, haze, S/S, steam, steam ship, steamer, steamership, vapor). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'�気 (steam), 湯気 (steam), 気�" (gas). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きたい (anticipation, curious, danger, distress, expectation, fuselage, gas, hope, jeopardy, queer, rare, strange, strange or odd posture or figure, uncommon), ゆ�' (steam), じょうき (above mentioned, beaten track, dizziness, information systems, proper course, rush of blood to the head, steam, stipulation). (various references)

Korean		수증기 (Vapor). (various references)

Manx		yn lhieeney dhoo, jannoo gaal (boil down, evaporate, vaporize), gaal (gale, steam, vapour concentration). (various references)

Occitan		vapor (steam). (various references)

Papiamen		damp (steam, vapor). (various references)

Pig Latin		apourvay.(various references)

Polish		para (pair, steam, vapor), opar (steam, vapor). (various references)

Portuguese		vapor (blur, fume, pack-horse, puff, reek, steam, vapor). (various references)

Romanian		se vaporiza (evaporate, vapor), se evapora (boil away, dry out, evaporate, exhale, fume, vapor, vaporize), iluzie (delusion, fume, mare's nest, phantom, self-deceit, shade, vapor), himerã (a bird in the bush, bubble, chimera, negation, nonentity, vapor, will-o'-the-wisp), aburire (steaming, vapor), aburi de beţie (vapor), aburealã (damp, exhalation, fume, reek, steam, vapor), abur (breath, breathing, breeze, damp, exhalation, fog, fume, haze, reek, smoke, smother, steam, vapor). (various references)

Russian		пар (fallow, reek, steam, vapor). (various references)

Scottish		toit (fume, smoke, steam), sgleò (boasting, dimness of the eyes, false report, film, misery, romancing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		para (damp, fumes, humour, steam, vapor), isparenje (irrigation, transpiration, vapor). (various references)

Spanish		vapor (S/S, steam, steam ship, steamer, vapor), vaho (blur, flying, fume, haze, mist, misting, steam, vapor, whiff). (various references)

Sranan		dampu (steam, vapor). (various references)

Swedish		imma (condensation, fogging, mist, steam, vapor), ånga (fume, fumes, smoke, steam, vapor), dunst (exhalation, fume, steam, vapor). (various references)

Tagalog		singáw (steam, vapor). (various references)

Turkish		buhar (aura, exhalation, steam, vapor), buğu (condensation, mist, reek, steam, vapor). (various references)

Ukranian		хвастатися (ostentate, vapor, vaunt), хвастати (beat to drums, blow, bluster, boast, brag, cut a dash, display, flourish, gab, gasconade, glory, splurge, swank, talk big, talk horse, vapor, vaunt), химера (bubble, chimera, crank, vapor, whimsy-whamsy, whim-wham), туман (brume, damp, mist, nebula, vapor), випаровуватися (evaporate, exhale, vapor, vaporize), випаровувати (evaporate, fume, vapor, vaporize, volatilize), похвальба (boast, vapor), пара (couple, doublet, fume, match, pair, pendant, steam, twain, two, twosome, vapor). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự u uất, sự chán nản (chagrin, despondency, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, ennui, heaviness, lowness, low-spiritedness), hơi nước vật hư ảo, hơi (draught, rather, remote, slightly, somewhat, unexhausted). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vapor, vapos. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Acts Chapter 2, Verse 19
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai dwsw terata en tw ouranw anw kai shmeia epi thV ghV katw aima kai pur kai atmida kapnou
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et dabo prodigia in caelo sursum et signa in terra deorsum sanguinem et ignem et vaporem fumi
Old English	990	West Saxon	Ic sceall ætiewan wundras on heofone ofer wolcnum,and tacn on þære earðan under wolcnum,blod and fyr and reces æðm.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And Y schal yyue grete wondris in heuene aboue, and signes in erthe bynethe, blood, and fier, and heete of smoke.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And I will shewe wonders in heaven a bove and tokens in the erth benethe bloud and fyre and the vapour of smoke.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs on the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke:
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Acts Chapter 2, Verse 19
Albanian	Dhe do të bëj mrekulli lart në qiell dhe shenja poshtë mbi tokë: gjak, zjarr e avull tymi.
Bulgarian	Още и на слугите си и на слугините си ще изливам от �"уха си в ония дни, и ще пророкуват.
Cebuano	Ug igapasundayag ko sa itaas ang mga katingalahan diha sa kalangitan, ug sa ubos ang mga ilhanan diha sa yuta-- dugo, ug kalayo, ug gabon nga aso;
Chinese	在天上我要顯出奇事、在地下我要顯出神蹟、有血、有火、有煙霧．
Croatian	Pokazat æu èudesa na nebu gore i znamenja na zemlji dolje, krv i oganj i stupove dima.
Danish	Og jeg vil lade ske Undere på Himmelen oventil og Tegn på Jorden nedentil, Blod og Ild og rygende Damp.
Dutch	En Ik zal wonderen geven in den hemel boven, en tekenen op de aarde beneden, bloed en vuur, en rookdamp.
Finnish	Ja minä annan näkyä ihmeitä ylhäällä taivaalla ja merkkejä alhaalla maan päällä, verta ja tulta ja savupatsaita.
French	Je ferai paraître des prodiges en haut dans le ciel et des miracles en bas sur la terre, Du sang, du feu, et une vapeur de fumée;
German	Und ich will Wunder tun oben im Himmel und Zeichen unten auf Erden: Blut und Feuer und Rauchdampf;
Haitian Creole	Mwen pral fè mèvèy parèt anwo nan syèl la, mwen pral fè mirak anba sou latè! Va gen san, dife ak gwo nwaj lafimen.
Hungarian	És tészek csudákat az égben odafenn, és jeleket a földön idelenn, vért, tüzet és füstnek gõzölgését.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Aku akan mengadakan keajaiban-keajaiban di atas sana di langit, dan hal-hal luar biasa di bawah sini di bumi; akan ada darah dan api, uap dan asap.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Dan Aku akan mengadakan ajaib pada langit di atas, dan tanda pada bumi di bawah; yaitu darah dan api dan uap asap.
Italian	Farò prodigi in alto nel cielo e segni in basso sulla terra, sangue, fuoco e nuvole di fumo.
Korean	또 내 가 위 로 하 늘 에 서 �" 기 사 와 아 래 로 땅 에 서 �" 징 조 를 � �'� 리 니 곧 �"� 와 불 과 연 기 로 다
Latvian	Un es doðu brînumzîmes augðâ pie debesîm un apakðâ virs zemes: asinis un uguni, un dûmu kvçpus;
Maori	Ka whakakitea ano e ahau nga mea whakamiharo i te rangi i runga, me nga tohu ki te whenua i raro; he toto, he kapura, he paowa pongere:
Modern Greek	και θελω δειξει τερατα εν τω ουρανω ανω και σημεια επι της γης κατω, αιμα και πυρ και ατμιδα καπνου·
Norwegian	Og jeg vil la under skje på himmelen i det høie, og tegn på jorden i det lave: blod og ild og røkskyer;
Portuguese	E mostrarei prodígios em cima no céu; e sinais embaixo na terra, sangue, fogo e vapor de fumaça.
Rumanian	Voi face sq se arate semne sus kn cer wi minuni jos pe pqmknt, sknge, foc wi un vkrtej de fum;
Russian	й � ПЛБЦХ ЮХ�"ЕУБ ОБ ОЕ�'Е ЧЧЕТИХ Й ЪОБНЕОЙС ОБ ЪЕНМЕ ЧОЙЪХ, ЛТПЧШ Й ПЗПОШ Й ЛХТЕОЙЕ �"ЩНБ.
Shuar	Yakí nayaimpiniam, aents Túrachminian iniakmastatjai. Tura nunkanmasha winia kakarmarun iniakmastaj tusan numpancha, jiniasha, mukuintiuncha yuranmia aintsan akupkattajai.
Spanish	Daré prodigios en el cielo arriba, y señales en la tierra abajo: sangre, fuego y vapor de humo.
Swahili	Nitatenda miujiza juu angani, na ishara chini duniani; kutakuwa na damu, moto na moshi mzito;
Swedish	Och jag skall låta undertecken synas uppe på himmelen och tecken nere på jorden: blod och eld och rökmoln.
Thai	เราจะสำแ�"งการมหัศจรรย์ในอากาศเบื้องบนและหมายสำคัญที่แผ่น�"ินเบื้องล่างเป็นเลือ�" ไฟและไอควัน
Ukrainian	І дам чуда на небі вгорі, а внизу на землі ці знамена: кров, і огонь, і куряву диму.
Uma	Kupopohiloi-koi anu mekoncehi hi langi', pai' tanda mekoncehi hi wongko dunia' wo'o. Ria mpai' raa' pai' apu pai' rangahu to bue'.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vapour": vapoured, vapourer, vapourers, vapouring, vapours, vapoury. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-o-p-r-u-v"
	-1 letter: parvo, vapor.
	-2 letters: arvo, pour, prao, prau, proa, roup.
	-3 letters: avo, oar, ora, our, ova, par, pro, pur, rap, upo, var, vau.
	-4 letters: ar, op, or, pa, up.
	Words containing the letters "a-o-p-r-u-v"
	+1 letter: paviour, vapours, vapoury.
	+2 letters: paviours, vaporous, vapoured, vapourer.
	+3 letters: oviparous, supernova, vapourers, vapouring.
	+4 letters: parvovirus, supernovae, supernovas, unapproved, unprovable, vaporously, viviparous, voluptuary.
	+5 letters: avoirdupois, papovavirus, provascular, provocateur, sporulative, vituperator.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 61 70 6F 75 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100001 01110000 01101111 01110101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 0070 006F 0075 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
mc vapour	18
system vapour	13
nike vapour	8
pressure vapour	5
mercurial nike vapour	4
vapour barrier	4
detector gas vapour	4
vapour trail	3
vapour	3
lock vapour	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Vapour

Definitions: Vapour

Vapour

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Vapour

Mechanical Engineering

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Vapour

Synonyms: Vapour

Crosswords: Vapour

Commercial Usage: Vapour

Books

Music

Use in Literature: Vapour

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Usage Frequency: Vapour

Expressions: Vapour

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vapour

mc vapour

system vapour

nike vapour

pressure vapour

mercurial nike vapour

vapour barrier

detector gas vapour

vapour trail

vapour

lock vapour

Modern Translations: Vapour

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Ancestral Language Translations: Vapour

Bible Trace: Vapour

Matched Bible Translations: Vapour

Derivations: Vapour

Derivations

Anagrams: Vapour

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Vapour

56 61 70 6F 75 72

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01010110 01100001 01110000 01101111 01110101 01110010