different between vapour vs viper

English

Noun

vapour (countable and uncountable, plural vapours)

1. British standard spelling of vapor.

Verb

vapour (third-person singular simple present vapours, present participle vapouring, simple past and past participle vapoured)

1. British standard spelling of vapor.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vapour, from Latin vapor.

Alternative forms

• vapor, wapour, vapoure, vapur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va??pu?r/, /va?pu?r/, /?va?pur/

Noun

vapour (plural vapours)

1. Fumes or vapour; a visible gaseous emission:
   1. A visible vapour; steam
   2. The vapour of water; mist.
   3. Fumes given off by combustion; smoke.
2. Heated air; air of a high temperature.
3. (physiology) A noxious bodily fume believed to be the cause of maladies.
4. (rare) A airborne smell; a nasal sensation transmitted via the air.
5. (rare) Effect, emanation.

Related terms

• vapouren

Descendants

• English: vapour, vapor
• Scots: vapour

References

• “v??p?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-01.

Etymology 2

From Old French vaporer.

Verb

vapour

1. Alternative form of vapouren

English

Etymology

From Middle French vipere, from Old French vipre, from Latin v?pera, contracted from v?vipara f (“viviparous”, adj.), from vivus (“alive”, adj.) +? parere (“to bear”, verb). Doublet of weever and wyvern.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?va?p?/
• Rhymes: -a?p?(r)

Noun

viper (plural vipers)

1. A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.

   Synonym: adder

2. A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person.
3. (slang) A person who smokes marijuana.

Derived terms

• horned viper
• red viper
• viperfish
• vipergrass
• viperish
• viper's bugloss

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