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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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Brit. Pharm to this entry?)

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

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): /t??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?k/
  • (w:cot–caught merger, w:northern cities vowel shift) IPA^(key): /t?k/, /tä?k/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /to?k/
• Rhymes: -??k
• Homophones: torc, torq, torque (non-rhotic accents only), tock (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English talken, talkien, from Old English tealcian (“to talk, chat”), from Proto-Germanic *talk?n? (“to talk, chatter”), frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *tal?n? (“to count, recount, tell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, count”), equivalent to tell +? -k. Cognate with Scots talk (“to talk”), Low German taalken (“to talk”). Related also to Danish tale (“to talk, speak”), Swedish tala (“to talk, speak, say, chatter”), Icelandic tala (“to talk”), Old English talian (“to count, calculate, reckon, account, consider, think, esteem, value; argue; tell, relate; impute, assign”). More at tale. Despite the surface similarity, unrelated to Proto-Indo-European *telk?- (“to talk”), which is the source of loquacious.

Alternative forms

• taulke (obsolete)

Verb

talk (third-person singular simple present talks, present participle talking, simple past and past participle talked)

1. (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Let’s go to my office and talk. ? I like to talk with you, Ms. Weaver.

2. (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.

3. (transitive) To speak (a certain language).

4. (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.

5. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.

6. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.

7. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

8. (informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.

Conjugation

See also: talkest, talketh

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:talk

Coordinate terms

• listen

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English talk, talke (“conversation; discourse”), from the verb (see above).

Noun

talk (countable and uncountable, plural talks)

1. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.

2. A lecture.

3. (uncountable) Gossip; rumour.

4. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.

6. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child about a reality of life; in particular:
   1. A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.

      Have you had the talk with Jay yet?

   2. (US) A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
      • 2012, Crystal McCrary, Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World ?ISBN:

        Later, I made sure to have the talk with my son about being a black boy, […]

      • 2016, Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge ?ISBN:

        The Talk
        All the black parents I have ever spoken to have had “the talk” with their sons and daughters. “The talk” is a conversation about how to behave and not to behave with police.

      • 2016, Stuart Scott, Larry Platt, Every Day I Fight ?ISBN, page 36:

        Now, I was a black man in the South, and my folks had had “the talk” with me. No, not the one about the birds and bees. This one is about the black man and the police.

7. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.

8. (usually in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.

   The leaders of the G8 nations are currently in talks over nuclear weapons.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:talk
• (meeting): conference, debate, discussion, meeting

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

Pages starting with “talk”.

Danish

Etymology

Via French talc or German Talk, from Persian ???? (talq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /talk/, [t?al???]

Noun

talk c (singular definite talken, not used in plural form)

1. talc (a soft, fine-grained mineral used in talcum powder)

Related terms

• talkum

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

talk m (uncountable)

1. talc (soft, fine-grained mineral used in talcum powder)

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch talch, from Old Dutch *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz. More at English tallow.

Noun

talk c (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of talg (“tallow”)

Anagrams

• kalt

Polish

Noun

talk m inan

1. talc (a soft, fine-grained mineral used in talcum powder)

Declension

Swedish

Noun

talk c

1. talc (a soft, fine-grained mineral used in talcum powder)

Declension