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1: having passed out of existence; "vanished civilizations"

1: a person who disappears

1: quickly going away and passing out of sight; "all I saw was his vanishing back" [syn: {disappearing}] n 1: a sudden or mysterious disappearance 2: suddenly disappearing from sight

1: a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin [syn: {cold cream}, {coldcream}, {face cream}]

1: the point beyond which something disappears or ceases to exist 2: the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge

1: so as to disappear or approach zero; "errors are vanishingly rare"

1: feelings of excessive pride [syn: {amour propre}, {conceit}, {self-love}] 2: the quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the vanities of the world" [syn: {emptiness}] 3: the trait of bei...

1: a vain and frivolous lifestyle especially in large cities

1: United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974) [syn: {Bush}]

1: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" [syn: {beat}, {bea...

1: susceptible to being defeated [syn: {beatable}, {vincible}]

1: someone who is victorious by force of arms [syn: {conqueror}]

1: place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective) 2: the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the ...

1: a place from which something can be viewed; "from that vantage point he could survey the whole valley" [syn: {viewpoint}]

1: a volcanic island in the Fijis

1: a volcanic island republic in Melanesia; independent since 1980 [syn: {Republic of Vanuatu}, {New Hebrides}]

1: United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Nicola Sacco was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1888-1927) [syn: {Bartolomeo Vanzetti}]

1: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: {bland}, {flat}, {flavorless}, {flavourless}, {insipid},...

1: the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated [syn: {jejunity}, {jejuneness}, {tameness}, {vapidness}]

1: in a vapid manner; "a vapidly smiling salesman"

1: the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated [syn: {jejunity}, {jejuneness}, {tameness}, {vapidity}]

1: a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance [syn: {vapour}] 2: the process of becoming a vapor [syn: {vaporization}, {vaporisation}, {vapour}, {evaporation}]

1: a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe; `vapour bath' is a British term [syn: {steam bath}, {steam room}, {vapour bath}] 2: you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown an...

1: the density of a gas relative to the density of hydrogen [syn: {vapour density}]

1: a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the ...

1: the pressure exerted by a vapor; often understood to mean saturated vapor pressure (the vapor pressure of a vapor in contact with its liquid form) [syn: {vapour pressure}]

{vaporetto}

1: used of substances [syn: {evaporable}, {vaporizable}, {volatilizable}, {volatilisable}] 2: resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds" [syn: {vaporish}, {vapourish}, {vaporous}]

1: an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade" [syn: {brag}, {bragging}, {crow}, {crowing}, {line-shooting}, {gasconade}]

1: the process of becoming a vapor [syn: {vaporization}, {vapor}, {vapour}, {evaporation}] 2: annihilation by vaporizing something [syn: {vaporization}]

1: cause to change into a vapor; "The chemist evaporated the water" [syn: {evaporate}] 2: change into a vapor; "The water evaporated in front of our eyes" [syn: {evaporate}] 3: turn into gas; "The sub...

1: converted into a gas or vapor [syn: {gasified}, {vaporized}, {volatilized}, {volatilised}]

1: resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds" [syn: {vaporific}, {vapourish}, {vaporous}]

1: used of substances [syn: {evaporable}, {vaporific}, {volatilizable}, {volatilisable}]

1: annihilation by vaporizing something [syn: {vaporisation}] 2: the process of becoming a vapor [syn: {vaporisation}, {vapor}, {vapour}, {evaporation}]

1: turn into gas; "The substance gasified" [syn: {gasify}, {vaporise}, {aerify}] 2: kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting; "in this computer game, space t...

1: converted into a gas or vapor [syn: {gasified}, {vaporised}, {volatilized}, {volatilised}]

1: so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous...

1: a state of depression; "he had a bad case of the blues" [syn: {blues}, {blue devils}, {megrims}, {vapours}]

1: a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance [syn: {vapor}] 2: the process of becoming a vapor [syn: {vaporization}, {vaporisation}, {vapor}, {evaporation}]

1: a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe; `vapour bath' is a British term [syn: {steam bath}, {steam room}, {vapor bath}] 2: you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and...

1: the density of a gas relative to the density of hydrogen [syn: {vapor density}]

1: a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the ...

1: the pressure exerted by a vapor; often understood to mean saturated vapor pressure (the vapor pressure of a vapor in contact with its liquid form) [syn: {vapor pressure}]

1: resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds" [syn: {vaporific}, {vaporish}, {vaporous}]

1: a state of depression; "he had a bad case of the blues" [syn: {blues}, {blue devils}, {megrims}, {vapors}]

1: local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) [syn: {buckaroo}, {buckeroo}]

1: a short porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California; an endangered species [syn: {Phocaena sinus}]

1: a unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere [syn: {volt-ampere}]

1: (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups; "a new strain of microorganisms" [syn: {form}, {variant}, {strain}]

1: a Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities

1: any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles [syn: {monitor}, {monitor lizard}]

1: monitor lizards [syn: {family Varanidae}]

1: type and sole extant genus of the Varanidae [syn: {genus Varanus}]

1: the largest lizard in the world (10 feet); found on Indonesian islands [syn: {Komodo dragon}, {Komodo lizard}, {dragon lizard}, {giant lizard}]

1: destroys crocodile eggs [syn: {African monitor}]

1: United States composer (born in France) whose music combines dissonance with complex rhythms and the use of electronic techniques (1883-1965) [syn: {Edgard Varese}]

1: Brazilian statesman who ruled Brazil as a virtual dictator (1883-1954) [syn: {Getulio Dornelles Vargas}]

1: Peruvian writer (born in 1936) [syn: {Mario Vargas Llosa}, {Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa}]

1: the quality of being subject to variation [syn: {variableness}, {variance}] [ant: {invariability}, {invariability}] 2: a quality of variability and lack of uniformity [syn: {unevenness}] [ant: {eve...