vaporise
/'veipəraiz/ Cách viết khác : (vaporise) /'veipəraiz/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To turn from a liquid or solid state into vapor: The process where a substance changes into a gas, often due to heat.
- To cause a substance to turn into vapor: To apply energy (like heat) to a liquid or solid so that it becomes a gas.
- To disappear or dissipate like vapor: To vanish suddenly or completely.
Examples of Usage
- Verb (Intransitive - to turn into vapor):
- The puddle will vaporise quickly under the hot sun.
- Alcohol vaporises at a lower temperature than water.
- Verb (Transitive - to cause to turn into vapor):
- The chemist used a hot plate to vaporise the solvent.
- The intense laser beam can vaporise metal.
- Verb (To disappear):
- His hopes seemed to vaporise when he heard the bad news.
- The morning fog began to vaporise as the day warmed.
Advanced Usage
- Scientific/Technical Context: Often used in chemistry and physics to describe phase changes.
- In a vacuum, water can vaporise at room temperature.
- Figurative Use: To describe something vanishing suddenly or being annihilated.
- The company's profits vaporised during the economic crisis.
Variants and Related Words
- Vaporize: The preferred spelling in American English. (e.g., )
- Vapor (noun): The gaseous state of a substance. (e.g., )
- Vaporisation/Vaporization (noun): The process of vaporising. (e.g., )
- Evaporate: A close synonym, often used for the slower vaporisation of a liquid, especially at its surface. (e.g., )
Synonyms
- Evaporate: To change from liquid to vapor.
- Gasify: To convert into a gas.
- Volatilize: To make volatile or cause to evaporate.
- Disappear: To vanish or cease to be visible.
Related Phrasal Verbs/Phrases
(Note: "Vaporise" itself is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. The action is typically expressed by the verb alone or with prepositions like "into.") - Vaporise away: To disappear completely by turning into vapor. (Less common) - The dry ice vaporised away, leaving no residue.
Related Idioms
(Note: There are no common idioms centered on the word "vaporise." Its figurative use often stands alone to imply sudden disappearance or destruction.) - To go up in smoke/vapor: A related idiom meaning to be destroyed or come to nothing. - All our careful plans went up in smoke. (This conveys a similar idea of sudden disappearance or failure as the figurative use of "vaporise.")
Verb
- lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
- evaporate milk
- turn into gas
- The substance gasified
- change into a vapor
- The water evaporated in front of our eyes
- cause to change into a vapor
- The chemist evaporated the water