Sublime vs Vapor - What's the difference?
sublime | vapor |
(chemistry, physics) To sublimate.
To raise on high.
* E. P. Whipple
To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
* Alexander Pope
To dignify; to ennoble.
* Jeremy Taylor
Noble and majestic.
* De Quincey
Impressive and awe-inspiring.
* Prior
* Longfellow
(obsolete) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
* Dryden
(obsolete) Elevated by joy; elated.
* Milton
Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.
* Spenser
* Milton
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.
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, title= 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:
As verbs the difference between sublime and vapor
is that sublime is while vapor is to become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.As a noun vapor is
cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.sublime
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(sublim)- A soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit.
- The sun / Which not alone the southern wit sublimes , / But ripens spirits in cold, northern climes.
- An ordinary gift cannot sublime a person to a supernatural employment.
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Adjective
(er)- the sublime Julian leader
- sublime''' scenery; a '''sublime deed
- Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime .
- Know how sublime a thing it is / To suffer and be strong.
- Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared.
- Their hearts were jocund and sublime , / Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine.
- countenance sublime and insolent
- His fair, large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.
Anagrams
* ----vapor
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Alternative forms
* vapour (Commonwealth English)Noun
(wikipedia vapor) (en noun)Philip J. Bushnell
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Derived terms
* vaporescence * vaporescent * vapor pressure * vapour trail * water vaporSee also
* dew point * get the vaporsVerb
(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.