Vapour vs Haze - What's the difference?
vapour | haze |
Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
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, chapter=5, title= The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
(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
. (uncountable) Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility.
* 1772 December, James Cook, , vol. 1 ch. 2:
* 1895 , H.G. Wells, :
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, title= (uncountable) A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
(uncountable, figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
* 1957 , (Daphne du Maurier), [http://books.google.com/books?id=cf4-iVG03pEC], ISBN 081221725X, page 218:
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(uncountable, engineering, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
* 1998 , Leonard I. Nass and Charles A. Heiberger, Encyclopedia of PVC [http://books.google.com/books?id=mDe7EidmglIC&], ISBN 0824778227, page 318:
(countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
* 1985 , Philip Jackisch, Modern Winemaking [http://books.google.com/books?id=Zf-24UvvT4oC], ISBN 0801414555, page 69:
To be hazy, or thick with haze.
(US, informal) To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit.
To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter I:
As nouns the difference between vapour and haze
is that vapour is cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air while haze is .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.vapour
English
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.
haze
English
(wikipedia haze)Alternative forms
* haseEtymology 1
* The earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century. * Possibly * Compare (etyl).
Noun
(en-noun)- Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze , accompanied with rain.
- A blue haze , half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery.
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- In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.
- Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film.
- Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes .
Derived terms
* haze over * hazyVerb
(haz)- (Ray)
