Is vapourise considered incorrect, even in British English? According to Wiktionary, the British spelling of "vaporize" is vaporise, not vapourise as one might expect from the word vapour (and similarly, the Canadian spelling is still vaporize, not vapouriz
What is the difference between a vapor and a mist? vapor n (14c) 1 : diffused matter (as smoke or fog) suspended floating in the air and impairing its transparency 2 a : a substance in the gaseous state as distinguished from the liquid or solid state b : a substance (as gasoline, alcohol, mercury, or benzoin) vaporized for industrial, therapeutic, or military uses; also : a mixture (as the
Is combustant a word? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Another object of the present invention is to provide a stable combustant -oxidant composition, providing a propulsion monofuel when vaporized (Patent publication number US2968539A, filed Aug 31, 1950) Explosion rockets without precompression of the mixture (the mixture consisting of a liquid or vaporized combustant and gaseous oxygen or air)
English equivalent of the Persian proverb When theres fire, wet and . . . The water in some wet object is vaporized Even materials not normally considered flammable will burn This is, I suspect, why the adage is about wet versus dry and fire: wet and dry are sometimes "equal" in the face of fire, and sometimes not: it depends on the magnitude of the fire
phrases - jury-rigged, or jerry-rigged - English Language Usage . . . Although the Jerry Brothers seem to have vaporized under scrutiny, there is a Liverpool connection to early use of the term In a book published by John Murray twenty years after the Notes and Queries episode, Ernest Weekley, An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1921) remarks:
A word for coming out of hiding Looking for a word that means "coming out of hiding " I mean literally the physical act of coming out, like: 'something had scared me and I hid under a blanket or behind a rock, and then gradu