"VAP" meaning in English

See VAP in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: VAPs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} VAP (countable and uncountable, plural VAPs)
  1. (medicine, pathology) Abbreviation of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: ventilator-associated pneumonia Categories (topical): Medicine, Pathology Hyponyms (ventilator-associated pneumonia): VIP (english: ventilator-induced pneumonia)
    Sense id: en-VAP-en-noun-3KN-lNGH Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences Disambiguation of 'ventilator-associated pneumonia': 58 42
  2. (education) Abbreviation of visiting assistant professor. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: visiting assistant professor Categories (topical): Education Hypernyms: HCAP (english: healthcare-associated pneumonia), HAP (english: hospital-acquired pneumonia), pneumonia Related terms: VIP (english: ventilator-induced pneumonia), VILI (english: ventilator-induced lung injury), VALI (english: ventilator-associated lung injury)
    Sense id: en-VAP-en-noun-oDr6AsnY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Topics: education

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for VAP meaning in English (2.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "VAPs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "VAP (countable and uncountable, plural VAPs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "ventilator-associated pneumonia"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant alt parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Medicine",
          "orig": "en:Medicine",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Pathology",
          "orig": "en:Pathology",
          "parents": [
            "Medicine",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Abbreviation of ventilator-associated pneumonia."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "58 42",
          "english": "ventilator-induced pneumonia",
          "sense": "ventilator-associated pneumonia",
          "word": "VIP"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-VAP-en-noun-3KN-lNGH",
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "pathology",
          "pathology"
        ],
        [
          "ventilator-associated pneumonia",
          "w:ventilator-associated pneumonia"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine, pathology) Abbreviation of ventilator-associated pneumonia."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "pathology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "visiting assistant professor"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Education",
          "orig": "en:Education",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Abbreviation of visiting assistant professor."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "27 73",
          "english": "healthcare-associated pneumonia",
          "word": "HCAP"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "27 73",
          "english": "hospital-acquired pneumonia",
          "word": "HAP"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "27 73",
          "word": "pneumonia"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-VAP-en-noun-oDr6AsnY",
      "links": [
        [
          "education",
          "education"
        ],
        [
          "visiting",
          "visiting#English"
        ],
        [
          "assistant professor",
          "assistant professor#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(education) Abbreviation of visiting assistant professor."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "27 73",
          "english": "ventilator-induced pneumonia",
          "word": "VIP"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "27 73",
          "english": "ventilator-induced lung injury",
          "word": "VILI"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "27 73",
          "english": "ventilator-associated lung injury",
          "word": "VALI"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "education"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "en:VAP"
  ],
  "word": "VAP"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "VAPs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "VAP (countable and uncountable, plural VAPs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "english": "healthcare-associated pneumonia",
      "word": "HCAP"
    },
    {
      "english": "hospital-acquired pneumonia",
      "word": "HAP"
    },
    {
      "word": "pneumonia"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "english": "ventilator-induced pneumonia",
      "sense": "ventilator-associated pneumonia",
      "word": "VIP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "ventilator-induced pneumonia",
      "word": "VIP"
    },
    {
      "english": "ventilator-induced lung injury",
      "word": "VILI"
    },
    {
      "english": "ventilator-associated lung injury",
      "word": "VALI"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "ventilator-associated pneumonia"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English abbreviations",
        "English links with redundant alt parameters",
        "English links with redundant wikilinks",
        "en:Medicine",
        "en:Pathology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Abbreviation of ventilator-associated pneumonia."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "pathology",
          "pathology"
        ],
        [
          "ventilator-associated pneumonia",
          "w:ventilator-associated pneumonia"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine, pathology) Abbreviation of ventilator-associated pneumonia."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "pathology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "visiting assistant professor"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English abbreviations",
        "en:Education"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Abbreviation of visiting assistant professor."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "education",
          "education"
        ],
        [
          "visiting",
          "visiting#English"
        ],
        [
          "assistant professor",
          "assistant professor#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(education) Abbreviation of visiting assistant professor."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "education"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "en:VAP"
  ],
  "word": "VAP"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.