vaporize en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *kwapōs Latin vapor Old French vapeurder. Old French vaporbor. Middle English vapour English vapor Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English vaporize From vapor + -ize.
Meanings
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(US, ambitransitive) To turn into vapor.
PFC vaporizes when hit with an ultrasound pulse, producing rapidly expanding gas bubbles that "fire" the nanobullets out of the microcannons at speeds on the order of meters per second -- and the fluorescent microbullets light up to show exactly where they landed in the tissue target.
2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| vaporizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| vaporizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| vapourize | British, Commonwealth, English, Oxford, alternative | lexicographic | |
| vaporise | alternative | lexicographic | |
| vaporized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| vaporized | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Deriveds
revaporize · vaporization · vaporizer · vaporizable · unvaporized
Relateds
Translations (33)
az buxarlanmaq (turn into vapour) · pl parować (turn into vapour) · pl wyparować (turn into vapour) · he אִיֵּד (turn into vapour) · es vaporizar (turn into vapour) · ca vaporitzar (turn into vapour) · es vaporizarse (turn into vapour) · ja 蒸発させる (turn into vapour) · pt vaporizar (turn into vapour) · ru испари́ть (turn into vapour) · sq avulloj (turn into vapour) · sh ispariti (turn into vapour) · hu elpárologtat (turn into vapour) · ja 気化させる (turn into vapour) · ka აორთქლება (turn into vapour) · io vaporigar (turn into vapour) · vi bốc hơi (turn into vapour) · bg изпарявам (turn into vapour) · cmn 汽化 (turn into vapour) · de verdampfen (turn into vapour) · az buğlanmaq (turn into vapour) · sv förånga (turn into vapour) · it vaporizzare (turn into vapour) · cy tawchu (turn into vapour) · sh испарити (turn into vapour) · fr vaporiser (turn into vapour) · sv förångas (turn into vapour) · ro vaporiza (turn into vapour) · ja 揮発させる (turn into vapour) · hu párologtat (turn into vapour) · ru испари́ться (turn into vapour) · id menguap (turn into vapour) · fi höyrystää (turn into vapour)