Vape: The word of 2014

As a noun - ‘an electronic cigarette or similar device; an act of inhaling and exhaling the vapour produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device.’

As a verb - to ‘inhale and exhale the vapour produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device.’

Vape, the word, came into existence in 1983 when an author named Rob Stepney, writing in the pages of the now defunct UK magazine New Society, described a hypothetical device being explored at the time: “an inhaler or ‘non-combustible’ cigarette, looking much like the real thing, but… delivering a metered dose of nicotine vapour. (The new habit, if it catches on, would be known as vaping.)”

Rebecca Solnit's definition of a book

"A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another."

~ From her beautiful essay on reading and writing.