Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that vaporizes, especially a device used to vaporize medicine for inhalation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Specifically, a carbureter, or device by which liquid hydrocarbon, moving rapidly in a fine state of division in a current of air, becomes an explosive mixture with the air, or makes an air-gas mixed with the necessary air for combustion.
- noun One who or that which vaporizes or convertsinto vapor; a form of atomizer. Also spelled
vaporiser .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, vaporizes, or converts into vapor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A device with a heating element, used to
vaporize aliquid . - noun medicine A device with a heating element, used to
vaporize aliquid solution withmedicine . The producedvapor condensates into fineaerosols , forming amist inside the device, to beinhaled by thepatient for delivery of the medicine into thelungs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a device that puts out a substance in the form of a vapor (especially for medicinal inhalation)
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Examples
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At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" - a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of ...
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(AP) - At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" - a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana.
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AP - At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" - a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana.
We Blog A Lot 2009
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At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" - a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana.
WRAL.com Top Stories 2009
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At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" - a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana.
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(AP) - At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" - a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana.
WBBH - News 2009
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At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" - a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of ...
WN.com - Articles related to Film Clip Shows Marilyn Monroe Smoking Marijuana 2009
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At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" - a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana.
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And, you know, what Mitch Earleywine talks about in the book is using a vaporizer, which is a way to ingest cannabis through vapor that isn't particularly harmful to the lung tissue.
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And, you know, what Mitch Earleywine talks about in the book is using a vaporizer, which is a way to ingest cannabis through vapor that isn't particularly harmful to the lung tissue.
treeseed commented on the word vaporizer
When I was ill with bronchitis as a little girl my mother would rig up a vaporizer tent by putting a card table up over the head of my bed. This she would drape with a sheet. She would direct the long nozzle of the vaporizer machine under the sheet and suffumigate me with Vicks VapoRub. I would dwell in this little moist cave until my breathing was restored. In those days (the early 1950s) hot water vaporizers were used. They were incredibly dangerous and many children were burned by them. However, I loved this process because I imagined myself in wonderful tropic climes of deserted isles. I loved the vaporizer.
January 30, 2008