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verb

Evaporate v. t.

1.

To convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat; to dissipate in vapor or fumes.

2.

To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion; to subject to evaporation; as, to evaporate apples.

3.

To give vent to; to dissipate. (R.) "My lord of Essex evaporated his thoughts in a sonnet."

Evaporating surface (Steam Boilers), that part of the heating surface with which water is in contact.

Evaporate v. i. (past & past part. evaporated; pres. part. evaporating)

1.

To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in particles too minute to be visible.

2.

To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of a writer often evaporates in the process of translation. "To give moderate liberty for griefs and discontents to evaporate... is a safe way."

adjective

Evaporate adj. Dispersed in vapors.

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Etymology of 'Evaporate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Evaporate" Quotes from Famous Books

... was wintry and put on an aspect of youth, when verdure sprouted from the lofty trees which rose from the ground below the bridge. He saw it, too, on a somewhat misty day recede to a distance and almost evaporate, delicate and quivering, like a fairy palace. Then, again, there were pelting rains, which submerged it, hid it as with a huge curtain drawn from the sky to the earth; storms, with lightning flashes which ...

— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola

... him; and I was even more struck by his cool self-possession than by their enthusiasm. For a moment or two I was convinced that a rescue would be attempted. I had no conception that so much excitement could evaporate innocuously, and was preparing myself to take part in the struggle, when the line halted as the leading files gained the stairs, and, to my wonderment, the crowd became hushed and still. Then one burst of excited pity over, not a thought occurred to any to offer ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various

... preserving biological specimens by abstracting their moisture with alcohol after hardening in chromic acid, and then placing the specimen in turpentine for some time; great discrepancies arise, however, according as the alcohol is allowed or not to evaporate from the specimen before ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 • Various

... 2HCl.PtCl{4}. (In the crystallised form it has 6H{2}O).—It may be made as follows:—Take 5 grams of clean platinum scrap and dissolve in a flask at a gentle heat in 50 c.c. of hydrochloric acid with the occasional addition of some nitric acid; evaporate to a paste; and then dissolve in 100 c.c. of water. It is used for separating ...

— A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. • Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

... peace, a divine melancholy, a silent serenity surrounded this dead woman, seemed to emanate from her, to evaporate from her into the atmosphere outside and to ...

— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. • Guy de Maupassant

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