(n.) Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.
(n.) Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion.
(n.) Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
(n.) The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
(n.) To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.
(n.) To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
(n.) To pass off in fumes or vapors.
(n.) To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
(v. t.) To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room.
(v. t.) To praise inordinately; to flatter.
(v. t.) To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
(2) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(3) Cadmium fumes and compounds have been found to be instrumental in the development of some cases of chronic bronchitis and emphysema in Sweden.
(4) It is referred to an additional potential endangering by gun fumes and the measures for the protection of labour which are to be derived from this.
(5) The prevalence of occupational dust exposure was 32%, and gas or fume exposure, 19%.
(6) Hydrogen sulfide poisoning from inhalation of roofing asphalt fumes is a rare but devastating injury.
(7) Where efficient fume extraction was in use, levels of air contaminants were lower than with natural ventilation.
(8) Using field observations, modelling techniques and theoretical analysis, parameters describing the performance and collection efficiency of large industrial canopy fume hoods are established for, a) steady state collection of fume and b) collection of plumes with fluctuating flowrates.
(9) In January, Boehner announced that Netanyahu had accepted an invitation to address a joint session of Congress – a move that left the White House fuming, since Obama was not consulted about the visit.
(10) Some abnormalities (increased VC, decreased RV) are typical of diving activities, but the deterioration of effort-dependent expiratory flow values and alveolar-capillary diffusion must be ascribed to specific nuisances (fumes, polluants, toxic substances) associated with fireman's activities.
(11) Subjects with gas or fume exposure had relative odds of symptoms between 1.27 and 1.43 when compared with unexposed subjects.
(12) Black Cats manager Gus Poyet fumed: “If you ask every single manager we want to talk about football, but we always find ourselves talking about a decision.
(13) The highest fume concentration on the horizontal was shown in the fumes collected directly above the arc.
(14) The tea-shop owner’s home is just a couple of hundred metres from a huge, ageing coal-fired power plant in central Turkey , whose red-and-white chimneys spew dirty fumes.
(15) A total of 69 male subjects occupationally exposed to cadmium fumes in a factory producing silver-cadmium-copper alloys for brazing, were subjected to lung function tests, including ventilation (FVC and FEV1), residual volume (RV) and alveolar-capillary diffusion capacity (TLCO and KCO).
(16) But after more than half a million people signed an Avaaz petition calling for Ca ñete’s rejection , environmentalists were left fuming at a perceived democratic deficit in the EU.
(17) Two individuals developed an asthma-like illness after a single exposure to high levels of an irritating aerosol, vapor, fume, or smoke.
(18) Exposures to various gas fumes and vapors accounted for the largest percentage of all hospitalizations (38%), and the second largest percentage of deaths (20.6%).
(19) Data collected on various types of filters (dust and mist; dust, fume, and mist; paint, lacquer, and enamel mist; and high efficiency) challenged with a worst case-type sodium chloride (NaCl) and dioctyl phthalate (DOP) aerosol are presented.
(20) All four gave immediate bronchial reactions to inhalation of the fumes, varying from one breath to 3 min of exposure.
Literal
Definition:
(a.) According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.
(a.) Following the letter or exact words; not free.
(a.) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
(a.) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons.
(n.) Literal meaning.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
(2) Estimated fluid consumption dropped from 10 liters to 4 liters daily and incidents of hyponatremia decreased by 62%.
(3) Resting plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine levels were 13.1 and 2.1 nmol liter-1 for the marine toad (Bufo marinus).
(4) And we literally had hundreds of thousands of them."
(5) Standard additions are unnecessary; Pt concentrations are read from a calibration chart of peak heights, which is linear up to 1.6 mg per liter.
(6) Communication issues in obtaining organ donation consent were examined, with particular focus on what are literally life-and-death decisions.
(7) It could still be terrorism but it looks as if the aircraft went out of control because the controls were literally burning up.
(8) A novel vector was employed which permits rapid and highly efficient cleavage of the GST fusion protein yielding 10 mg of purified PurH product per liter of bacterial culture.
(9) You literally never see that at political rallies, though obviously at Tea Party ones they are there all the time."
(10) An empirical rate expression was developed from experimental data which led to a prediction that the natural rate of oxidation in the ocean is about 0.023 micromoles of As(III) per liter each year.
(11) A technology for preparation of purified concentrates of rabies virus has been developed permitting to use simultaneously dozens of liters of tissue culture virus-containing fluid for the preparation of a concentrate.
(12) The maximum effect was obtained with 10(-7) molar gibberellic acid, whereas concentrations greater than 5 x 10(-7) mole per liter were inhibitory.
(13) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
(14) Some women attended the protest wearing jeans and T-shirts, while others took the mission of reclaiming the word "slut" – one of the stated objectives of the movement – more literally and turned out in overtly provocative fishnets and stilettos.
(15) But nobody got the reference and "the next day it was literally on CNN".
(16) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
(17) The majority of children came from low socio-economic homes (61%) with mostly illiterate or semi-literate mothers.
(18) As compared with the normoglycemic patients, the patients with hypoglycemia had elevated median plasma concentrations of glucagon (44 vs. 11 pmol per liter; P = 0.001), epinephrine (3400 vs. 1500 pmol per liter; P = 0.012), norepinephrine (7500 vs. 2900 pmol per liter; P = 0.002), and lactate (3.5 vs. 2.1 mmol per liter; P = 0.020) and similar alanine and beta-hydroxybutyrate concentrations.
(19) Finally, poliovirus experimentally seeded in 20 liters of tape water was recovered from Johns-Manville D79-Johns-Manville D39 or Johns-Manville D79-Filterite 0.45 micron 142-mm filter combinations was a efficiencies of 86 and 85%, respectively.
(20) Results concerning existence and uniqueness of equilibria, stability of the equilibria, and boundedness of solutions suggest that "compensatory" systems might not be compensatory in the literal sense.