- vapor
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)Visible gasNouns1. vapor, vaporousness, vaporization, volatilization; gaseousness, gaseity; evaporation; distillation, aeration, sublimation, exhalation; fumigation, steaming; volatility. See insubstantiality, rarity.2. gas, elastic fluid; oxygen, ozone, hydrogen, nitrogen, argon, helium, fluorine, neon; natural gas, coal gas, illuminating gas; sewer gas, poison gas; damp, choke-damp; air, vapor, ether, steam, fume, reek, effluvium, miasma, flatus; flatulence; cloud (see cloudiness). See fuel.3. vaporizer, atomizer, still, retort; spray, spray gun, airbrush, sprayer.4. (study of gasses) pneumatics, pneumostatics; aerostatics, aerodynamics.Verbs — vaporize, volatize, distill, sublime; evaporate, exhale, transpire, fume, reek, steam, fumigate; give off; atomize, spray.Adjectives — vaporous, volatile, volatilized, gaseous, gassy, reeking; aeriform, evaporable, vaporizable.II(Roget's IV) n.Syn. mist, steam, condensation, smog, exhalation, breath, fog, gas, haze, smoke.III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.moisture, mist, fog, haze, steam, cloud, spray, breath, exhalation, humidity, condensation, miasma, smog.
English dictionary for students. 2013.