Vapour

n. the gas into which most liquids and solids are convertible by heat: the condition of a body when it becomes gas by heat: water in the atmosphere: anything vain or transitory: (pl.) a disease of nervous weakness in which a variety of strange images float before the mind temporary depression of spirits dejection.—v.i. to pass off in vapour: to evaporate: to boast: to brag.—v.t. to make to pass into vapour: to cause to dissolve into gas thin air or other unsubstantial thing: (rare) to depress dispirit: (obs.) to bully.—adjs. Vā′porable Vā′porisable capable of being converted into vapour.—n. Vaporā′rium a Russian bath.—adjs. Vaporif′erous producing vapour; Vaporif′ic converting into steam or other vapour; Vā′poriform existing in the form of vapour.—n. Vaporisā′tion.—v.t. Vā′porise to convert into vapour.—v.i. to pass off in vapour.—adj. Vā′porish full of vapours: hypochondriacal: peevish.—n. Vaporom′eter an instrument for measuring the pressure of a vapour.—adjs. Vā′porous Vā′porose full of or like vapour: vain: affected with the vapours: unsubstantial vainly imaginative.—adv. Vā′porously.—ns. Vā′porousness Vaporos′ity; Vā′pour-bath an apparatus for bathing the body in vapour of water.—adj. Vā′poured full of vapours: affected with the vapours.—ns. Vā′pourer one who vapours a boaster; Vā′pouring windy or ostentatious talk.—adv. Vā′pouringly.—adj. Vā′poury full of vapour: affected with the vapours: peevish.

杰罗姆录入

• For example, the pictograph for mouth combined with pictograph for vapour expressed words. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Markest thou the smouldering and suffocating vapour which already eddies in sable folds through the chamber? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Oil, Vapour, and Gas Stoves, their Construction and Operation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In the midst of blaze and vapour, Mr. Rochester lay stretched motionless, in deep sleep. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• These vapour engines are used for vapour launches, bicycles and automobiles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The kilns were burning, and a stifling vapour set towards us with a pale-blue glare. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It is called olefiant gas, and contains equal measures of hydrogen gas and carbon vapour; its specific gravity is 0. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• They are known as electric, lead, mercury, plate, vacuum, vapour, etc. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I have got so mixed up with business of one sort and t'other that my soft sentiments are gone off in vapour like. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• To bring out the image thus invisibly impressed, the plate was exposed to the vapour of mercury, in a closed box. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Therefore these vapours of the sun which were rendered in black lines were so produced by crossing terrestrial vapors of the same nature. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Vapours from other continents arrived upon the wind, which curled and parted round him as he walked on. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The subtle beauties of the heath were lost to Eustacia; she only caught its vapours. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• These vapours are then conducted by separate jets to different points in the stove where the heat is to be applied. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• When it is heavy, rainy weather, they all come in, wet through; and at such times the vapours of the court are like those of a fungus-pit. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• At the very beginning of the 19th century John Dalton in England, 1801-1807, and Gay-Lussac in France began their investigations of gases and vapours. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• For with sparky soot, snuffs and vapours, men have constant strife,-- Those who are not burned to death are smothered during life. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The sun raises the vapours from the sea, which form clouds, and fall in rain upon the land, and springs and rivers are formed of that rain. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The consequence of the earthquake was a general sickness, from the noisome vapours belched forth, which swept away above three thousand persons. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• She lay fuming in the vapours. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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