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English

Alternative forms

• vapour (British)

Etymology

From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ve?p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ve?p?/
• Rhymes: -e?p?(?)

Noun

vapor (plural vapors) (American spelling)

1. Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
2. The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
3. Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
4. (dated) Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.

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5. (archaic, in the plural) Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.
   • Jan 13, 1732, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift

     He talks me into a fit of vapours twice or thrice a week

6. (obsolete) Wind; flatulence.

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Derived terms

Translations

Verb

vapor (third-person singular simple present vapors, present participle vaporing, simple past and past participle vapored) (American spelling)

1. (intransitive) To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
2. (transitive) To turn into vapor.

   to vapor away a heated fluid

   • 1617, Ben Jonson, Lovers Made Men

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

3. To emit vapor or fumes.
4. (intransitive) To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘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, “Saki”, ‘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.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 1, [1]

     […] an amusing character all but extinct now, but occasionally to be encountered […] vaporing in the groggeries along the tow-path.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, 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.

5. (transitive) To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore.
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.9:

     “I only mean,” cried she, giddily, “that he might have some place a little more pleasant to live in, for really that old moat and draw-bridge are enough to vapour him to death […].”

Translations

See also

• dew point
• get the vapors

Anagrams

• parvo, parvo-

Albanian

Etymology

From vapë (“hot weather”) +? -or noun suffix.

Noun

vapor ?

1. steamboat

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Pronunciation

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. vapor

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /v??po/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /b??po/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /va?po?/

Noun

vapor m (plural vapors)

1. vapor, steam

Derived terms

• cavall de vapor

Further reading

• “vapor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Pronunciation

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. vapor

Synonyms

• (vapor): gas

Further reading

• “vapor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Ladino

Noun

vapor m (Latin spelling)

1. ship, steamer

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly related to Ancient Greek ?????? (kapnós, “smoke”) and Proto-Indo-European *k?ep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”), via an older form *quapor that eventually lost its velar. See also hope.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?a.por/, [?u?äp?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?va.por/, [?v??p?r]

Noun

vapor m (genitive vap?ris); third declension

1. steam, exhalation, vapour; smoke
2. warm exhalation, warmth, heat
3. ardour of love, warmth

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (warmth): calor

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• vapor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vapor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vapor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Noun

vapor

1. Alternative form of vapour

Old French

Noun

vapor f (oblique plural vapors, nominative singular vapor, nominative plural vapors)

1. Alternative form of vapeur

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• vapur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?pur/

Noun

vapor m (plural vapor)

1. vapor, steam

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /v?.?po?/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /va.?po?/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.?po?/
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): /va.?pox/
• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.?po/
• Hyphenation: va?por

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. vapor / vapour

Derived terms

• a todo vapor

Anagrams

• prova, pavor

Further reading

• “vapor” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romanian

Etymology

From Italian vapore, French vapeur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?por/

Noun

vapor n (plural vapoare)

1. boat, ship

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?po?/, [ba?po?]
• Rhymes: -o?
• Hyphenation: va?por

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. steam, vapor (water vapor)

Derived terms

Related terms

• vaporera

Further reading

• “vapor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k???/
• (US) enPR: kr?, IPA^(key): /k?o?/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English crowe, from Old English cr?we, from Proto-Germanic *kr?w? (compare West Frisian krie, Dutch kraai, German Krähe), from *kr?han? ‘to crow’. See below.

Noun

crow (plural crows)

1. A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
2. The cry of the rooster.

   Synonym: cock-a-doodle-doo

3. Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
4. A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.

   Synonym: crowbar

5. (historical) A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.
6. (among butchers) The mesentery of an animal.
7. (ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A black person.
8. (military, slang) The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.
   • 2002, Ed Goodrich, Riggers that Dive (page 46)

     A young petty officer that must have just received his “crow” (a single chevron, with an eagle over it) was showing off to several seamen.

   • 2003, Jonathan T. Malay, Seraphim Sky (page 106)

     The young man had been threatened with loss of his third class rank, his “crow,” the eagle in a petty officer's sleeve insignia.

Derived terms

Related terms

• crow eater
• eat crow

Translations

See also

• caw
• murder of crows (“flock of crows”)
• raven

Further reading

• Corvus (boarding device) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Middle English crowen, from Old English cr?wan (past tense cr?ow, past participle cr?wen), from Proto-Germanic *kr?an?, from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gerH- (“to cry hoarsely”).

Compare Dutch kraaien, German krähen, Lithuanian gróti, Russian ??????? (grájat?)). Related to croak.

Verb

crow (third-person singular simple present crows, present participle crowing, simple past crowed or (UK) crew, past participle crowed or (archaic) crown)

1. (intransitive) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
2. (intransitive) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
3. (intransitive, music) To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.

Usage notes

The past tense crew in modern usage is confined to literary and metaphorical uses, usually with reference to the story of Peter in Luke 22.60. The past participle crown is similarly poetical.

Translations

• Tashelhiyt: uddn,sqiqqiy

References

Further reading

• crow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Worc

Middle English

Noun

crow

1. Alternative form of crowe