Vapour vs Stream - What's the difference?
vapour | stream |
Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, 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
A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams , the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01, author=Nancy Langston, volume=101, issue=1, page=59
, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=10 * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 21, author=Helen Pidd
, title=Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis, work=the Guardian
(sciences) An umbrella term for all moving waters.
(computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
(UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
* Milton
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
(Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
In intransitive terms the difference between vapour and stream
is that vapour is to use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster while stream is to flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.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.
stream
English
Noun
(en noun)The Fraught History of a Watery World, passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams , channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}
citation, passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}
citation, passage=A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.}}
Synonyms
* beck * brook * burn * creek * flow * rillVerb
(en verb)- beneath those banks where rivers stream
- When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed .
- A flag streams in the wind.