smell
IPA: smˈɛɫ
noun
- A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
- (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
- A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
verb
- (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
- (intransitive, copulative) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
- (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
- (intransitive, figurative) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
- To detect or perceive; often with out.
- (obsolete) To give heed to.
- (transitive) To smell of; to have a smell of
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Examples of "smell" in Sentences
- The smell in the room was intense.
- They have a good sense of smell and binocular vision.
- They are also blind, but have a preternatural sense of smell.
- The sweet fragrance resembles the sweet smell of jasmine flowers.
- The lower pair, aural tentacles, provide the slug's sense of smell.
- Damage to the olfactory bulb results in a loss of the sense of smell.
- By seeing the form and smelling the fragrance, ghosts know the flavor.
- 'Machine olfaction' is the automated simulation of the sense of smell.
- I like the tactile nature of a book, the feel, the look, the smell, etc.
- The man wants to kill and feels nostalgic about the smell of boiling rice.