vap

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vap"

Translingual

Symbol

vap

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Vaiphei.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Vaiphei terms

English

Etymology

See vapid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /væp/
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)

Noun

vap (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) That which is vapid, insipid, or lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine.
    • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
      In vain it is to wash a goblet, if you mean to put it nothing but the dead lees and vap of wine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vap”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Antillean Creole

Noun

vap

  1. moodiness; bad mood

Volapük

Noun

vap (nominative plural vaps)

  1. gas

Declension

Declension of vap
singular plural
nominative vap vaps
genitive vapa vapas
dative vape vapes
accusative vapi vapis
vocative 1 o vap! o vaps!
predicative 2 vapu vapus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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