English Explanatory Dictionary

smoke

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
  2. A cigarette.
  3. Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
  4. An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
  5. A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
  6. Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
  7. A light grey color tinted with blue.
  8. Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.
  9. Any cloud of solid particles or liquid vapor dispersed into the air; particularly one of:
  10. Opaque aerosol released on a battlefield, used e.g. to signal or to degrade enemy observation via smokescreen.
  11. Pollen scattered by a plant.
  12. Mist, fog, or drizzle; water vapour, such as from exhalation into cold air.
verb
  1. To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
  2. To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
  3. To give off smoke.
  4. Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
  5. Of tobacco: to give off or produce smoke (in a certain manner or of a certain type).
  6. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
  7. To dry or medicate by smoke.
  8. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
  9. To make unclear or blurry.
  10. To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
  11. To beat someone at something.
  12. To snuff out; to kill, especially with a gun.
name
  1. The 44th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
name
  1. London.
noun
  1. Synonym of Burmilla.

Pronunciation

smōk /sməʊk/ /smoʊk/ /smoːk/ en-us-smoke.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-smoke.wav En-au-Smoke.ogg

Word forms

smoke smokes smoak smoking smoked smoken the Smoke

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)”).

Synonyms

cig ciggy cancer stick coffin nail fag have a smoke Burmilla

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 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 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

Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 煙灰色 /烟灰色 Danish: røgfarve Estonian: suitshall Finnish: savunharmaa Malay: kelabu asap Romanian: fumuriu Russian: ды́мчатый Arabic: دَخَنَ Armenian: մխալ Aromanian: fumig Asturian: afumar Asturian: fumar Asturian: afumiar Asturian: fumiar Azerbaijani: tüstüləmək Bashkir: төтәү Bulgarian: димя Bulgarian: пуша Catalan: fumar Catalan: fumejar Chinese Mandarin: 冒煙 /冒烟 Czech: kouřit Czech: dýmat Danish: ryge Dutch: roken Esperanto: fumi Estonian: suitsema Finnish: savuta Finnish: savuttaa French: fumer Friulian: fumâ Galician: fumear Galician: fumegar German: rauchen Greek: καπνίζω Greenlandic: pujoorpoq Hungarian: füstölög Hungarian: füstöl Interlingua: fumar Japanese: 煙る Korean: 뿜다 Central Kurdish: دووکەڵ کردن Latin: fūmō Latvian: kūpēt Macedonian: чади Macedonian: дими Māori: ponguru Māori: whakapoa Norman: feunmer Old English: rēocan Polish: dymić Polish: kopcić Portuguese: fumegar Romanian: fumega Romanian: fuma Russian: дыми́ть Russian: дыми́ться Slovak: dymiť Spanish: humear Spanish: jumear Spanish: vafear Spanish: vahear Spanish: humar Swedish: ryka Turkish: tütmek
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