English Dictionary

vapor

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈveɪpə/

名詞

アメリカ英語 可算名詞 不可算名詞 古風 古語 複数形 廃用

Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air. / The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.

日本語の意味

空中に浮遊する、拡散したもやもやした霧、蒸気、煙などの物質 / 通常は固体や液体である物質が気体状態になったもの

As the kettle boiled, a thin vapor rose and blurred the kitchen window.

やかんが沸くと、薄い湯気が立ち上り、台所の窓を曇らせた。

意味（1）

Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.

The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.

意味（2）

The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.

Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

意味（3）

Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.

For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

意味（4）

(dated) Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.

Sulphurous fumes have also been recommended, as well as diffusing a variety of vapors in the apartment of the patient; on their beneficial or injurious effects we are unable to speak.

意味（5）

(archaic, in the plural) Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.

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

意味（6）

(obsolete) Wind; flatulence.

The surcharge of the stomack from a gross vapour, and from the poise of some outward weight, are alike

vapors （ plural ）