smoke
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
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military
politics
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war
Etymology: From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca (“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb (see below). Related to Dutch smook (“smoke”), Middle Low German smôk (“smoke”), German Schmauch (“smoke (from a gun barrel)”).
Inflected forms:
form: smokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: smoak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: smokes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: smoking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: smoked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: smoked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: smoken
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
rare
form: smoak
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: If those were the days, however, when steam was triumphant, they were also the days of smoke. Nowhere was this so apparent as at "Kings Cross (Suburban)" where, one after another, the Great Northern tank engines thumped their way up the incline and emerged from the tunnel, in clouds of steam and smoke, to pound their way up the last few hundred feet of gradient alongside the platform.
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
gloss: A cigarette.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
examples: Can I bum a smoke off you?
I need to go buy some smokes.
2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.
I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out
gloss: Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
examples: Hey, you got some smoke?
ERCS Guard: Got a smoke? We're all out.
gloss: An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
examples: I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke, and went on watching.
I'm going out for a smoke.
gloss: A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
I fed her a lot of smoke about a sheep station outside Adelaide and a big property in the high street with a glass front and ‘Thomas’ in lights. She didn’t believe me.
gloss: Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: The smoke of controversy.
gloss: A light grey color tinted with blue.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: You better not be giving me no smoke.
gloss: Any cloud of solid particles or liquid vapor dispersed into the air; particularly one of:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any cloud of solid particles or liquid vapor dispersed into the air; particularly one of:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There has been a great deal of smoke in the yew-trees this year. One day there was such a cloud that it seemed to be a fire in the shrubbery. […]
A gustful April morn / That puff'd the swaying branches into smoke.
[…] "fruitful cloud and living smoke" of pollen that rises from every spray. The two kinds of flowers are borne on separate trees and the resulting berries are pretty at all stages, and, when ripe, […]
[…] the "smoke" of pollen is so thick that distant hills look as if they are on fire. The culprit is the male cedar, which bears miniscule golden pine cones that release pollen when they pop open. The female tree produces a[…]
[…] a smoke of pollen drifts down upon the mat, it is covered and sealed in the ongoing growth of the sphagnum. A dusting of ash from a volcanic eruption halfway around the world becomes incorporated into the time line of its day,[…]
gloss: Any cloud of solid particles or liquid vapor dispersed into the air; particularly one of:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] steeds, whose lowdnes filled the aire with terrour, and whose breathes dimmed the sun with smoake, converted to delicate tunes and amorous glances?
You'll find that one of these days. If there's work ahead you ought to have sense enough not to knock smoke out of fresh horses before we begin.
[…] and a smoke of rain was drifting everywhere. In the thin drizzle the sheep were bleating among the dripping heather, and the birds were chattering and chirming in the shelter of the trees and bushes, and on the top of a sapling larch a[…]
[…] in a smoke of rain and spray on the long grey shore. The cry of curlews. Your footprints filling up with water the moment you make them. […]
gloss: A fastball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Should the commander of one column desire to communicate with the other, he raises three smokes simultaneously, which, if seen by the other party, should be responded to in the same manner.
[…] and we could not discern any settlement or any people, but we did see two smokes up-river in some thick groves of oak and cork and willows and other high trees, of a good thickness, resembling ash trees.
In the evening haze, even the Calton Gaol took on something of the savage grandeur of a Doré drawing, and this was by no means spoilt by the rising smokes of North British engines in the ravine below.
During the night, a severe lightning storm passed over this area and in the morning the towerman reported two smokes separated by about two miles distance.
The aerial reconnaissance did see active flame on heavy fuels (logs) and fine fuels (duff/understory), and several smokes.
gloss: To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette or cigar, burning material in a pipe, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He's smoking his pipe.
Her dad smoked various brands when he was younger.
gloss: To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
Do you smoke?
gloss: To give off smoke.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.
Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.
But what struck me most, and at once, was the sharpness, the clear definition of everything-even the distant housetops view across the opposite roofs. And then I noticed that no chimney, large or small, was smoking.
gloss: To give off smoke.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To give off smoke.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Damp tobacco," said Cripps, eyeing Limpet offensively as he threw down the challenge, "smokes unevenly. You'll admit that to start with."
"Dry tobacco burns even, and therefore smokes cool."
gloss: To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.
gloss: To dry or medicate by smoke.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After opening one of the hives from the back, he smoked the bees to calm them and to drive the queen toward the front of the hive.
gloss: To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To make unclear or blurry.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Smoke your bits of glass,
Ye loyal Swine, or her transfiguration
Will blind your wondering eyes.
gloss: To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.
gloss: To beat someone at something.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: We smoked them at rugby.
Super Macho Man: 'I DON'T SMOKE... BUT TONIGHT I'M GONNA SMOKE YOU!'
"He can weasel out if^([sic]) it." Ibanez massaged her knuckles. "He can say Couch welshed on a deal, and didn't show, and that's why Karen got got. It isn't conclusive. I have another thing I can lay on him, but even the two combined won't do. We need a third smoking gun if we're really gonna smoke this son of a bitch."
gloss: To snuff out; to kill, especially with a gun.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: He got smoked by the mob.
Ordnancemen stenciled bombs with “greetings” on behalf of friends and loved ones back home or slogans playing on beer and cigarette advertisements, like “To Muammar: For all you do, this bomb's for you” or “I'd fly 10,000 miles to smoke a camel.”
I had never met my father, and Precious's daddy had gotten smoked before she was even born.
gloss: To thrash; to beat.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
slang
transitive
gloss: To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.
I alone / Smok'd his true person, talk'd with him.
Upon that […] I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.
The squire gave him a good curse at his departure; and then turning to the parson, he cried out, "I smoke it: I smoke it. Tom is certainly the father of this bastard. […]
gloss: To ridicule to the face; to mock.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
slang
transitive
gloss: To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
pos: verb
examples: The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man.
gloss: To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
pos: verb
examples: Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
gloss: To suffer severely; to be punished.
pos: verb
examples: Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.
gloss: To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
transitive
gloss: To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: fumaric acid
fumarole
fumet
fumigate
fumitory
perfume
sfumato
smog
smoko
smoky quartz
bogue
cigar
cigarette
hypercapnia
pipe
reek
smudge pot
tobacco
typhus
Derived words: antismoke
Arctic sea smoke
Arctic smoke
besmoke
big smoke
Big Smoke
blow smoke
blow smoke up someone's ass
blow smoke up someone's arse
cigar-smoke
cigar smoke
coal-smoke
deliberate smoke
devil smoke
earth smoke
end in smoke
firesmoke
flower-smoke
frost smoke
go up in smoke
gunsmoke
holy smoke
in a puff of smoke
left-handed smoke shifter
liquid smoke
London smoke
magic smoke
no smoke without fire
oilsmoke
pass the bottle of smoke
peat-smoke
pipesmoke
pop smoke
prairie smoke
screening smoke
sea smoke
second-hand smoke
secondhand smoke
sidestream smoke
smaze
smog
smoke alarm
smoke and mirrors
smoke arch
smokeasy
smokeball
smoke black
smoke-blower
smoke blower
smoke board
smoke bomb
smokebox
smokebush
smokecloud
smoke-colored pewee
smoke consumer
smoked beef
smoke deflector
smoke detector
smoke diver
smoke diving
smoke-dried
smoke-dry
smoke-easy
smoke-eater
smoke eater
smoke explosion
smokefall
smoke-filled
smoke-filled room
smokefree
smoke-free
smokeful
smoke grenade
smoke grinder
smoke hawk
smokeho
smokehole
smoke hood
smokehouse
smoke-in
smokejack
smoke jack
smokejumper
smoke jumper
smokejumping
smokeless
smokelike
smoke machine
smoke meat
smoken
smoke-o
smoke-oh
smokepipe
smokeplate
smoke point
smokepot
smoke proof
smokeproof
smoke ring
smokeroom
smoke room
smokery
smoke sail
smoke sauna
smokescape
smokescreen
smoke-screen
smoke screen
smoke-shade
smokeshop
smokeshow
smoke show
smoke-signal
smoke signal
smokesploitation
smoke sponge
smokestack
smoke stand
smoke-talk
smoke test
smoketight
smoke tower
smoke tree
smoke wagon
smoke-washer
smokewood
smoke wrench
Smokey the Bear
smokie
smokish
smokist
smokum
smoky
smoxploitation
there's no smoke without fire
third-hand smoke
throwing smoke
throw smoke
water smoke
white smoke
woodsmoke
smoke pole
asmoke
can I smoke
chain-smoke
outsmoke
oversmoke
put that in your pipe and smoke it
resmoke
smirt
smokability
smokable
smokeability
smoke around
smoked Irish
smoked Irishman
smoke dope
smoke like a chimney
smoke like a furnace
smoke like a trooper
smoke one's own dope
smoke out
smoker
smoke someone's pole
smoke the whole pack
smoke up
smoking
stick that in your pipe and smoke it
what are you smoking
what was someone smoking
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 煙灰色 /烟灰色
roman: yānhuīsè
lang: Danish
word: røgfarve
lang: Estonian
word: suitshall
lang: Finnish
word: savunharmaa
lang: Malay
word: kelabu asap
lang: Romanian
word: fumuriu
lang: Russian
word: ды́мчатый
lang: Arabic
word: دَخَنَ
roman: daḵana
lang: Armenian
word: մխալ
roman: mxal
lang: Aromanian
word: fumig
lang: Asturian
word: afumar
lang: Asturian
word: fumar
lang: Asturian
word: afumiar
lang: Asturian
word: fumiar
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tüstüləmək
lang: Bashkir
word: төтәү
roman: tötəw
lang: Bulgarian
word: димя
roman: dimja
lang: Bulgarian
word: пуша
roman: puša
lang: Catalan
word: fumar
lang: Catalan
word: fumejar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 冒煙 /冒烟
roman: màoyān
lang: Czech
word: kouřit
lang: Czech
word: dýmat
lang: Danish
word: ryge
lang: Dutch
word: roken
lang: Esperanto
word: fumi
lang: Estonian
word: suitsema
lang: Finnish
word: savuta
lang: Finnish
word: savuttaa
lang: French
word: fumer
lang: Friulian
word: fumâ
lang: Galician
word: fumear
lang: Galician
word: fumegar
lang: German
word: rauchen
lang: Greek
word: καπνίζω
roman: kapnízo
lang: Greenlandic
word: pujoorpoq
lang: Hungarian
word: füstölög
lang: Hungarian
word: füstöl
lang: Interlingua
word: fumar
lang: Japanese
word: 煙る
roman: kemuru
lang: Korean
word: 뿜다
roman: ppumda
lang: Central Kurdish
word: دووکەڵ کردن
roman: dûkeł kirdin
lang: Latin
word: fūmō
lang: Latvian
word: kūpēt
lang: Macedonian
word: чади
roman: čadi
lang: Macedonian
word: дими
roman: dimi
lang: Māori
word: ponguru
lang: Māori
word: whakapoa
lang: Norman
word: feunmer
lang: Old English
word: rēocan
lang: Polish
word: dymić
lang: Polish
word: kopcić
lang: Portuguese
word: fumegar
lang: Romanian
word: fumega
lang: Romanian
word: fuma
lang: Russian
word: дыми́ть
roman: dymítʹ
lang: Russian
word: дыми́ться
roman: dymítʹsja
lang: Samoan
word: asu
lang: Slovak
word: dymiť
lang: Spanish
word: humear
lang: Spanish
word: jumear
lang: Spanish
word: vafear
lang: Spanish
word: vahear
lang: Spanish
word: humar
lang: Swedish
word: ryka
lang: Turkish
word: tütmek
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: توتمك
roman: tütmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: димити
roman: dymyty
lang: Ukrainian
word: димитися
roman: dymytysja
lang: Volapük
word: smokön
lang: Welsh
word: mygu
lang: Zealandic
word: roôke