Visible+vapor

  • 71valve box — Steam Steam (st[=e]m), n. [OE. stem, steem, vapor, flame, AS. ste[ a]m vapor, smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or something rising like a pillar; cf. Gr. sty ein to erect, sty^los a pillar, and E. stand.] 1. The… …

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  • 72valve chest — Steam Steam (st[=e]m), n. [OE. stem, steem, vapor, flame, AS. ste[ a]m vapor, smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or something rising like a pillar; cf. Gr. sty ein to erect, sty^los a pillar, and E. stand.] 1. The… …

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  • 73Wet steam — Steam Steam (st[=e]m), n. [OE. stem, steem, vapor, flame, AS. ste[ a]m vapor, smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or something rising like a pillar; cf. Gr. sty ein to erect, sty^los a pillar, and E. stand.] 1. The… …

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  • 74wet steam — Steam Steam (st[=e]m), n. [OE. stem, steem, vapor, flame, AS. ste[ a]m vapor, smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or something rising like a pillar; cf. Gr. sty ein to erect, sty^los a pillar, and E. stand.] 1. The… …

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  • 75fuming — Giving forth a visible vapor, a property of concentrated nitric, sulfuric, and hydrochloric acid s, and certain other substances. [L. fumus, smoke] * * * fum·ing (fūmґing) [L. fumus smoke] smoking; emitting a visible vapor …

    Medical dictionary

  • 76steam — I. n. 1. Vapor (especially of water), water in a gaseous state. 2. Visible vapor. 3. Mist, fume, reek, smoke, exhalation, effluvium. II. v. n. 1. Emit vapor, fume. 2. Evaporate, pass off in vapor. 3 …

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  • 77smoke — smokelike, adj. /smohk/, n., v., smoked, smoking. n. 1. the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, esp. the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of …

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  • 78smoking — smok·ing || sməʊkɪŋ n. emission of smoke or smoke like vapor; inhalation and exhalation of tobacco smoke adj. pertaining to smoking; designated for smokers (i.e. section of a restaurant); emitting smoke; addicted to the smoking of tobacco n …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 79smoke — [[t]smoʊk[/t]] n. v. smoked, smok•ing 1) chem. the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning substance, esp. the mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood or other organic matter 2) something… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 80Cirro-cumulus — Cloud Cloud (kloud), n. [Prob. fr. AS. cl[=u]d a rock or hillock, the application arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks in the sky or air.] 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the… …

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