Vaporing

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To emit or convert a substance into vapor, typically for a functional or aesthetic purpose, while causing a visible mist to form in the air
2. The process of changing a liquid into gas form by heating, which can serve various applications such as creating fragrances or steam
3. Letting off a fine mist or vapor into the surrounding atmosphere for effect or function ; transforming a liquid into gas typically through warming to produce steam or vapor

Etymology: "Vaporing" is the present participle of a verb built on "vapor", and the base word goes back to Latin "vapor", meaning steam or heat. English took it through Anglo-Norman and Old French, arriving in Middle English as "vapour". The Latin root is traced further back to a Proto-Italic form, so the word's core sense of rising, heated moisture has stayed remarkably stable across more than two thousand years. What changed is the company it keeps. Steam and heated air were the original meaning, but English speakers also applied "vapour" to exhalations, fumes and idle chatter, so that "vaporing" came to describe both the literal release of mist and the figurative puffing up of boasts. The two senses still sit side by side: a kettle is vaporing when it heats water into steam, and a braggart is vaporing when he fills the air with talk.

Synonyms: evaporating, fuming