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smoke Definition

smoke (smōk)

noun

    1. vaporous matter arising from something burning and made visible by minute particles of carbon suspended in it
    2. a mass or cloud of this
  2. any vapor, fume, mist, etc. resembling smoke
    1. ☆ an act or period of smoking tobacco, etc. time out for a smoke
    2. something to smoke, as a cigarette or pipeful of tobacco
  4. something without substance, significance, or lasting reality
  5. something that beclouds or obscures
  6. a dusky gray
  7. Physical Chem. a suspension of solid particles in a gas

Etymology: ME < OE smoca, akin to Ger schmauch < IE base *smeukh-, to smoke > Gr smychein, to smolder, Ir mūch, smoke

intransitive verb smoked, smok′·ing

  1. to give off smoke or a smokelike substance
  2. to discharge smoke in the wrong place, esp. into a room: said of a furnace, fireplace, etc.
  3. to give off too much smoke: said of a lamp, type of fuel, etc.
  4. Now Rare to move very rapidly, esp. so as to raise dust
    1. to draw the smoke of tobacco, etc. into the mouth, and often lungs, and blow it out again
    2. to be a habitual smoker

transitive verb

  1. to stain or color with smoke
  2. to treat (meat, fish, etc.) with smoke, as in flavoring or curing
  3. to fumigate as with smoke
  4. to drive or force into the open with or as with smoke; force out of hiding, secrecy, etc.: often with out
  5. to stupefy or stun (bees, etc.) with smoke
  6. to draw the smoke of or from (tobacco, a pipe, etc.) into the mouth, and often lungs, and blow it out again
  7. Archaic to detect or be suspicious of
  8. Obsolete to tease or mock

smoke Related Forms
smok′·able adjective or smoke′·able
smoke Synonyms

smoke

n.

vapor, fume, gas, soot, reck, smother, haze, smolder, smudge, smog.

smoke Synonyms

smoke

v.

  1. To give off smoke

    burn, fume, vaporize, reek, smother, smoke up, smolder, smudge, reek.

  2. To use smoke, especially from tobacco

    puff, inhale, smoke a pipe, smoke cigarettes, use cigars, drag*.

smoke Usage Examples

Object

  • salmon: I chose the larger version of what was also on the starter list smoked salmon on a bed of potato with rocket.
  • cigarette: Women who smoke 20 cigarettes a day are four times more likely to develop breast cancer.
  • cigar: I also well remember the owner, Mr. Paulo, who was plump and wore a long camel coat and smoked cigars.
  • haddock: Here we have used naturally smoked haddock, I really don't like to use the bright yellow stuff.
  • bacon: You need a a bit of smoked bacon in the piece with the rind still on- this is most important.
  • cannabis: He said Colin Davies smoked cannabis to alleviate pain resulting from a car accident six years ago.

Converse of object

  • inhale: Nicotine affects the brain within seconds of inhaling cigarette smoke.
  • belch: The young Rosyth Dockyard with its chimneys belching forth smoke was a hive of industry.
  • emit: March 17th: The fountain is green and chimneys emit green smoke.

Adjective modifier

  • secondhand: Exposure to secondhand smoke at work is also the second most common trigger of asthma attacks.
  • second-hand: The Trades Union Congress has supported Wetherspoon's move, praising the pub chain for acting to save staff from second-hand smoke.
  • acrid: The class was known as ` Smokey Joes ` since they were coal burning and emitted copious amounts of thick, acrid black smoke.
  • thick: Alarm Raised The outbreak was discovered by a Mrs Murray who woke up to find her room full of thick smoke.

Modifies a noun

  • alarm: These include: - Fitting a smoke alarm - Buying an approved car seat.
  • detector: First Floor Landing - Loft access, smoke detector, textured ceiling.
  • inhalation: He was to discover later that they had died of smoke inhalation.
  • grenade: The number of active smoke grenades has been reduced to 3, to clear up slowing the framerate on certain machines.

Noun used with modifier

  • tobacco: In recent years there has also been growing interest in tobacco smoke in enclosed public places.
  • cigarette: Cigarette smoke causes the muscle around the walls of the airways to tighten, making them narrower.
  • cigar: And by the way, he hasn't got gray hair, it's just Cuban cigar smoke that cant get out.
smoke Quotes

Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth.

—Milton,John

We'd gained our first objective hours before While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes, Pallid, unshaved and thirsty, blind with smoke.

—Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain

Nursed amid her noise, her crowds, her beloved smokeöwhat have I been doing all my life, if I have not lent out my heart with usury to such scenes?

—Lamb, Charles

Thestrongest possiblepiece of advicethat Icouldgiveto any young woman is: Don't screwaround and don't smoke.

—Currie, Edwina

As full of flavor as hickory smoke.

—Mumford, Lewis

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

  In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the L of hosts: the whole earth isfull of hisglory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

—Bible (Old Testament)

My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pageöwell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.

—Christiansen, Arthur

   He was almost a force of nature, like a slumbering volcano, wreathed in clouds, occasionally emitting smoke which soothsayers attempted to interpret.

—White,Theodore H(arold)

Oft fire is without smoke.

—Spenser, Edmund

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule) no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

—Bible (NewTestament)

The old man puffed into sight like a venerable battlewagon pressing up over the horizon. First a smudge of smoke, then the long cigar, then the familiar, stoop-shouldered hulk that a generation has come to know as the silhouette of greatness.

—Time