Ice vs Vapour - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.
* 1882 , Popular Science Monthly Volume 20, The Freezing of a Salt Lake
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(uncountable, physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
(uncountable, astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form.
(countable) A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
(uncountable) Any substance having the appearance of ice.
(uncountable, slang) One or more diamonds.
(uncountable, slang, drugs) Crystal form of methamphetamine.
(uncountable, ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
* 2006 , CBC, Finland, Sweden 'the dream final', February 26 2002,
To cool with ice, as a beverage.
To become ice, to freeze.
(slang): To murder.
To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
(ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
(ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
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(label) Wind; flatulence.
Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
* Bible, (w) iv. 14
(label) Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(label) Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.
To become vapour; to be emitted or circulated as vapour.
To turn into vapour.
* Ben Jonson
To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
* 1888 , (Rudyard Kipling), ‘The Bisara of Pooree’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio Society 2005, p. 172:
* 1904 , , ‘Reginald's Christmas Revel’, Reginald :
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 513:
To emit vapour or fumes.
* Francis Bacon
To become vapour; to be emitted or circulated as vapour.
To turn into vapour.
To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
* 1888 , (Rudyard Kipling), ‘The Bisara of Pooree’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio Society 2005, p. 172:
* 1904 , , ‘Reginald's Christmas Revel’, Reginald :
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber
British English forms
As nouns the difference between ice and vapour
is that ice is while vapour is cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.As a verb vapour is
to become vapour; to be emitted or circulated as vapour or vapour can be to become vapour; to be emitted or circulated as vapour.ice
English
Noun
(wikipedia ice)- It has always been difficult to explain how ice is formed on the surface of oceans while the temperature of maximum density is lower than that of cogelation, and the observations on this lake were instituted in the hope that they might throw light upon the subject.
citation, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
- The neighbouring countries have enjoyed many great battles on the ice . They last met for gold at the 1998 world championship, won by Sweden. Three years earlier, Finland bested Sweden for the only world title in its history.
Derived terms
* anchor ice * arena ice * black ice * brash ice * break the ice * choc ice * cold as ice * cut no ice * de-ice * dead ice * drift ice * dry ice * ice age * ice ax * ice axe * ice bag * ice barrier * ice bath * ice bear * ice blue * ice boat * ice breaker * ice bucket * ice cap / icecap * ice chest * ice cider * ice-cold * ice cream * ice cube * ice dam * ice dancing * ice diving * ice dwarf * icedrop * ice field * ice fish * ice fishing * ice floe * ice fog * ice foot * ice fractal * ice hockey * ice jam * ice kachang * ice lolly * ice luge * ice milk * ice needle * ice nucleus * ice-out * ice pack * ice palace * ice pellet * ice pick * ice plant * ice point * ice pop * ice queen * ice racing * ice resurfacer * ice rink * ice scour * ice scraper * ice sculpture * ice sheet * ice shelf * ice show * ice skate * ice skating * ice storm * ice water * ice wedge * ice wine * ice worm * ice yacht * ice yachting * iceball * iceberg * iceblink * iceblock * icebound * icefall * icehouse * iceless * icelike * icemaker * iceman * icemelt * icequake * icescape * iceteroid * icetray * iceward * iceways * icy * Italian ice * negative ice * on thin ice * pack ice * pancake ice * polar ice * sea ice * sell ice to Eskimos * slob ice * spin ice * stink on ice * water iceVerb
(ic)- Milton Keynes have yet to ice a team this season
- If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone.
Derived terms
* ice over * ice upAnagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----vapour
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Alternative forms
* vapor (US)Noun
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
- (Francis Bacon)
- For what is your life? It is even a vapour , that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
- a fit of vapours
Derived terms
* vapour pressure * vapour trail * water vapourSee also
* dew pointVerb
(en verb)- to vapour away a heated fluid
- He'd laugh to see one throw his heart away, / Another, sighing, vapour forth his soul.
- He vapoured , and fretted, and fumed, and trotted up and down, and tried to make himself pleasing in Miss Hollis's big, quiet, grey eyes, and failed.
- then the Major gave us a graphic account of a struggle he had with a wounded bear. I privately wished that the bears would win sometimes on these occasions; at least they wouldn't go vapouring about it afterwards.
- He felt he would start vapouring with devotion if this went on, so he bruptly took his leave with a cold expression on his face which dismayed her for she thought that it was due to distain for her artistic opinions.
- Running waters vapour not so much as standing waters.
Verb
(en verb)- He vapoured , and fretted, and fumed, and trotted up and down, and tried to make himself pleasing in Miss Hollis's big, quiet, grey eyes, and failed.
- then the Major gave us a graphic account of a struggle he had with a wounded bear. I privately wished that the bears would win sometimes on these occasions; at least they wouldn't go vapouring about it afterwards.