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Moistness vs Vapour - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between moistness and vapour

is that moistness is moisture while vapour is wind; flatulence.

As nouns the difference between moistness and vapour

is that moistness is the property of being moist 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.

moistness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The property of being moist.
  • (obsolete) Moisture.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:The moistnesse which the roote of a tree suckes becomes a trunke, a leafe, and fruite: And the aire being but one, applied unto a trumpet, becommoth diverse in a thousand sorts of sounds.

    • vapour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * vapor (US)

    Noun

  • Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
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  • The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
  • (label) Wind; flatulence.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
  • * Bible, (w) iv. 14
    • For what is your life? It is even a vapour , that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
  • (label) Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
    • a fit of vapours
  • (label) Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.

    • Derived terms

    * vapour pressure * vapour trail * water vapour

    See also

    * dew point

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To become vapour; to be emitted or circulated as vapour.
  • To turn into vapour.
    • to vapour away a heated fluid
  • * Ben Jonson
    • He'd laugh to see one throw his heart away, / Another, sighing, vapour forth his soul.
  • 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:
    • 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.
  • * 1904 , , ‘Reginald's Christmas Revel’, Reginald :
    • 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.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 513:
    • 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.
  • To emit vapour or fumes.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Running waters vapour not so much as standing waters.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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:
    • 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.
  • * 1904 , , ‘Reginald's Christmas Revel’, Reginald :
    • 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.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber
    • British English forms