| NOUN | substance | vapor, vapour | a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance |
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| process | vapor, vaporization, vaporisation, vapour, evaporation | the process of becoming a vapor |
| Sounds | vey'per | |
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| Rhymes | asper ... zipper: 139 rhymes with per... | |
| Meaning | A visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance. | |
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| Synonym | vapour | |
| Narrower | steam | water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere |
| water vapor, water vapour | water in a vaporous form diffused in the atmosphere but below boiling temperature | |
| Broader | suspension | A mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy |
| Spanish | vapor | |
| Catalan | vapor | |
| Adjectives | vaporous | filled with vapor |
| vaporous | resembling or characteristic of vapor | |
| Verbs | evaporate | change into a vapor |
| evaporate | cause to change into a vapor | |
| vaporize, vaporise | turn into gas | |
| vaporize, vaporise | lose or cause to lose liquid / liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue | |
| Meaning | The process of becoming a vapor. | |
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| Synonyms | vaporization, vaporisation, vapour, evaporation | |
| Narrower | boiling | The application of heat / heat to change something from a liquid / liquid to a gas |
| clouding, clouding up | The process whereby water particles become visible in the sky | |
| smoke, smoking | A hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion | |
| Broader | phase change, phase transition, state change, physical change | A change from one state (solid or liquid / liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition |
| Spanish | evaporación, vaporación, vaporización, vapor | |
| Catalan | evaporació, vaporització, vapor | |
| Verbs | evaporate, vaporize, vaporise | lose or cause to lose liquid / liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue |
| evaporate | change into a vapor | |
| evaporate | cause to change into a vapor | |
| vaporize, vaporise | turn into gas | |
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