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.
- “Would it kill you to just use the word smoke bomb?”
- 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.
- Lately, the term "smoke and mirrors" has come up when looking back on Buffalo's 4-1 start.
- Dust might be defined as smoke which had settled, and the term smoke applied to solid particles still suspended in the air.
- According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Jerry Dearly of the Lakota nation spread sweet, thin smoke from a "bear root" incense held in a shell over the playing surface.
- The suffering man ought really 'to consume his own smoke;' there is no good in emitting _smoke_ till you have made it into _fire_, -- which, in the metaphorical sense too, all smoke is capable of becoming!
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