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Scent vs Vapor - What's the difference?

scent | vapor |

As nouns the difference between scent and vapor

is that scent is a distinctive odour or smell while vapor is cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.

As verbs the difference between scent and vapor

is that scent is to detect the scent of while vapor is to become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.

scent

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A distinctive odour or smell.
    • the scent of flowers
    the scent of a skunk
  • An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
    • The dogs lost the scent .
  • The sense of smell.
    • I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs.
  • A perfume.
  • (figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone.

    • Usage notes

    * Almost always applied to agreeable odors (fragrances ).

    Synonyms

    * fragrance * perfume * aroma * odor * smell

    Derived terms

    * scentless

    Verb

  • to detect the scent of
    • The hounds scented the fox in the woods.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Methinks I scent the morning air.
  • to impart an odour to
    • Scent the air with burning sage before you begin your meditation.
  • * Dryden
    • Balm from a silver box distilled around, / Shall all bedew the roots, and scent the sacred ground.
  • To have a smell.
  • * Holland
    • Thunderbolts do scent strongly of brimstone.
  • To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

    • Anagrams

    * cents

    vapor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * vapour (Commonwealth English)

    Noun

    (wikipedia vapor) (en noun)
  • Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
  • The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell
    • , title= Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance , passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}

    Derived terms

    * vaporescence * vaporescent * vapor pressure * vapour trail * water vapor

    See also

    * dew point * get the vapors

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
  • To turn into vapor.
  • 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.

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