Smoke

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The vaporous system made up of small particles of carbonaceous matter in the air, resulting mainly from the burning of organic material, such as wood or coal.
  • n. A suspension of fine solid or liquid particles in a gaseous medium.
  • n. A cloud of fine particles.
  • n. Something insubstantial, unreal, or transitory.
  • n. The act of smoking a form of tobacco: went out for a smoke.
  • n. The duration of this act.
  • n. Informal Tobacco in a form that can be smoked, especially a cigarette: money to buy smokes.
  • n. A substance used in warfare to produce a smoke screen.
  • n. Something used to conceal or obscure.
  • n. A pale to grayish blue to bluish or dark gray.
  • verb-intransitive. To draw in and exhale smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe: It's forbidden to smoke here.
  • verb-intransitive. To engage in smoking regularly or habitually: He smoked for years before stopping.
  • verb-intransitive. To emit smoke or a smokelike substance: chimneys smoking in the cold air.
  • verb-intransitive. To emit smoke excessively: The station wagon smoked even after the tune-up.
  • verb-intransitive. Slang To go or proceed at high speed.
  • verb-intransitive. Slang To play or perform energetically: The band was really smoking in the second set.
  • v. To draw in and exhale the smoke of (tobacco, for example): I've never smoked a panatela.
  • v. To do so regularly or habitually: I used to smoke filtered cigarettes.
  • v. To preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to the aromatic smoke of burning hardwood, usually after pickling in salt or brine.
  • v. To fumigate (a house, for example).
  • v. To expose (animals, especially insects) to smoke in order to immobilize or drive away.
  • v. To expose (glass) to smoke in order to darken or change its color.
  • v. Slang To kill; murder.
  • phrasal-verb. smoke out To force out of a place of hiding or concealment by or as if by the use of smoke.
  • phrasal-verb. smoke out To detect and bring to public view; expose or reveal: smoke out a scandal.
  • idiom. smoke and mirrors Something that deceives or distorts the truth: Your explanation is nothing but smoke and mirrors.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
  • n. A cigarette.
  • n. An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
  • n. A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
  • n. Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
  • n. A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A fastball.
  • n. (The Smoke) London
  • v. To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
  • v. To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually.
  • v. To give off smoke.
  • v. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
  • v. To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
  • v. To kill, especially with a gun.
  • v. To beat someone at something.
  • v. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
  • v. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
  • v. To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
  • adj. Of the colour known as smoke.
  • adj. Made of or with smoke.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.
  • n. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
  • n. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.
  • n. The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco.
  • verb-intransitive. To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.
  • verb-intransitive. Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
  • verb-intransitive. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
  • verb-intransitive. To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner.
  • verb-intransitive. To suffer severely; to be punished.
  • v. To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke
  • v. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
  • v. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
  • v. To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
  • v. To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking.
  • v. To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; -- often with out.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To emit smoke; throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; reek; fume; especially, to send off visible vapor as the product of combustion.
  • To burn; be kindled; rage; fume.
  • To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
  • To smell or hunt something out; suspect something; perceive a hidden fact or meaning.
  • To permit the passage of smoke outward instead of drawing it upward; send out smoke for want of sufficient draft: said of chimneys, stoves, etc.
  • To draw fumes of burning tobacco, opium, or the like, into, and emit them from, the mouth; use tobacco or opium in this manner.
  • To suffer as from overwork or hard treatment; be punished.
  • To emit dust, as when beaten.
  • To apply smoke to; blacken with smoke; hang in smoke; medicate or dry by smoke; fumigate: as, to smoke infected clothing; to subject to the action of smoke, as meat; cure by means of smoke; smoke-dry; also, to incense.
  • To affect in some way with smoke; especially, to drive or expel by smoke: generally with out; also, to destroy or kill, as bees, by smoke.
  • To draw smoke from into the mouth and puff it out; also, to burn or use in smoking; inhale the smoke of: as, to smoke tobacco or opium; to smoke a pipe or a cigar.
  • To smell out; find out; scent; perceive; perceive the meaning of; suspect.
  • To sneer at; quiz; ridicule to one's face.
  • To raise dust from by beating; “dust”: as, I'll smoke his jacket for him.
  • n. The exhalation, visible vapor, or material that escapes or is expelled from a burning substance during combustion: applied especially to the volatile matter expelled from wood, coal, peat, etc., together with the solid matter which is carried off in suspension with it, that expelled from metallic substances being more generally called fume or fumes.
  • n. Anything that resembles smoke; steam; vapor; watery exhalations; dust.
  • n. Hence Something unsubstantial; something ephemeral or transient: as, the affair ended in smoke.
  • n. The act or process of drawing in and puffing out the fumes of burning tobacco, opium, or the like.
  • n. A chimney.
  • To get away; skip; skedaddle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an indication of some hidden activity
  • n. the act of smoking tobacco or other substances
  • n. street names for marijuana
  • v. inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
  • n. tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
  • n. a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
  • n. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
  • n. a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
  • n. something with no concrete substance
  • v. emit a cloud of fine particles
  • Verb Form
    smoked    smokes    smoking   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    indicant    indication    marihuana    cannabis    ganja    marijuana    evaporation    vapour    vapor    vaporisation   
    Cross Reference
    haze    exhalation    dust    rush    rage    london smoke    a dry smoke    smoking salts    like smoke    cape smoke   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    vapor    reek    fume    mist    rage    perfume    detect    quiz    puff    fag   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baroque    Coke    Koch    Polk    Stoke    Wouk    awoke    baroque    bloke    boak   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dust    flame    fire    cloud    heat    gas    steam    smell    ash    rain