scent
IPA: sˈɛnt
noun
- A distinctive smell.
- A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
- The sense of smell.
- (chiefly uncountable) A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
- (figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
- (obsolete) Sense, perception.
verb
- (transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
- (transitive, intransitive) To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).
- (transitive, figurative) To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something).
- (transitive) To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something).
- To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
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