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Smoke is a cloud from something burning, or slang for a time period during which cigarettes or tobacco are used.

(noun)

An example of smoke is a cloud rising from a burning candle.
An example of a smoke is a cigarette break.

Smoke is defined as to use cigarettes, a cigar or a pipe, or to stain or cook with the residue from something burning.

(verb)

An example of smoke is to inhale the fumes of a cigarette.
An example of smoke is to cook fish over a fire.

See smoke in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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
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
something without substance, significance, or lasting reality
something that beclouds or obscures
a dusky gray
Physical Chem. a suspension of solid particles in a gas

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

intransitive verb smoked, smoking

to give off smoke or a smokelike substance
to discharge smoke in the wrong place, esp. into a room: said of a furnace, fireplace, etc.
to give off too much smoke: said of a lamp, type of fuel, etc.
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

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

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smokable adjective or smokeable

See smoke in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

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.
A suspension of fine solid or liquid particles in a gaseous medium.
A cloud of fine particles.
Something insubstantial, unreal, or transitory.
a. The act of smoking a form of tobacco: went out for a smoke.
b. The duration of this act.
Informal Tobacco in a form that can be smoked, especially a cigarette: money to buy smokes.
A substance used in warfare to produce a smoke screen.
Something used to conceal or obscure.
A pale to grayish blue to bluish or dark gray.

verb smoked smoked, smok·ing, smokes

verb, intransitive

a. To draw in and exhale smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe: It's forbidden to smoke here.
b. To engage in smoking regularly or habitually: He smoked for years before stopping.
To emit smoke or a smokelike substance: chimneys smoking in the cold air.
To emit smoke excessively: The station wagon smoked even after the tune-up.
Slang
a. To go or proceed at high speed.
b. To play or perform energetically: The band was really smoking in the second set.

verb, transitive

a. To draw in and exhale the smoke of (tobacco, for example): I've never smoked a panatela.
b. To do so regularly or habitually: I used to smoke filtered cigarettes.
To preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to the aromatic smoke of burning hardwood, usually after pickling in salt or brine.
a. To fumigate (a house, for example).
b. To expose (animals, especially insects) to smoke in order to immobilize or drive away.
To expose (glass) to smoke in order to darken or change its color.
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. To detect and bring to public view; expose or reveal: smoke out a scandal.

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Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old English smoca

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