smoke

IPA: smˈoʊk

noun

  • (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
  • (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
  • (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
  • (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
  • (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
  • (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
  • (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
  • (uncountable, slang) Bother; problems; hassle.
  • (military, uncountable) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
  • (baseball, slang) A fastball.
  • (countable) A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
  • The 44th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
  • (UK, informal) London.
  • Synonym of Burmilla

verb

  • (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
  • (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
  • (intransitive) To give off smoke.
  • (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
  • (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
  • (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
  • (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
  • (transitive, obsolete) To make unclear or blurry.
  • (intransitive, slang, chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
  • (slang) To beat someone at something.
  • (transitive, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
  • (transitive, slang, obsolete) To thrash; to beat.
  • (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
  • (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
  • To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
  • To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
  • To suffer severely; to be punished.
  • (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
  • (transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
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Examples of "smoke" in Sentences

  • He has smoked tobacco for ten years.
  • The amount of smoke in the air is everything
  • This lessens the proportion of smoke to air inhaled.
  • Smoking in the lavatory will set off the smoke alarm.
  • The smoke from the fire filled the room as the air warmed.
  • Smoke could be seen billowing up more than in the air from miles away.
  • Smoke filled the air, choking and blinding the children within two minutes.
  • The air chamber in the pipe has a cooling and mellowing effect on the smoke.
  • A tertiary function of the diffuser is to hydrate the air smoke vapor mixture.

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