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Definition of Smoke

1. Noun. A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas.

2. Verb. Inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes. "Do you smoke?"

3. Noun. A hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion. "The fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles"

4. Verb. Emit a cloud of fine particles. "The chimney was fuming"

5. Noun. An indication of some hidden activity. "With all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere"

6. Noun. Something with no concrete substance. "It was just smoke and mirrors"

7. Noun. Tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder.

8. Noun. Street names for marijuana.

9. Noun. The act of smoking tobacco or other substances. "Smoking stinks"

10. Noun. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity. "He showed batters nothing but smoke"

Definition of Smoke

1. 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.

2. v. i. To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.

3. v. t. To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.

Definition of Smoke

1. to emit smoke (the gaseous product of burning materials) [v SMOKED, SMOKING, SMOKES] : SMOKABLE [adj]

Medical Definition of Smoke

1. 1. To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc, by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation. 2. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume. "Smoking the temple." 3. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect. "I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him." (Chapman) "He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu." (Shak) "Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers." (Addison) 4. To ridicule to the face; to quiz. 5. To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar. 6. To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; often with out; as, to smoke a woodchuck out of his burrow. 1. 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. The gases of hydrocarbons, raised to a red heat or thereabouts, without a mixture of air enough to produce combustion, disengage their carbon in a fine powder, forming smoke. The disengaged carbon when deposited on solid bodies is soot. 2. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist. 3. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. 4. The act of smoking, especially. Of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke. Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. Forming self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming, smoke-dried, smoke-stained, etc. Smoke arch, the smoke box of a locomotive. Smoke ball, a small sail in the lee of the galley stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on deck. Smoke tree, a shrub (Rhus Cotinus) in which the flowers are mostly abortive and the panicles transformed into tangles of plumose pedicels looking like wreaths of smoke. To end in smoke, to burned; hence, to be destroyed or ruined; figuratively, to come to nothing. Synonym: Fume, reek, vapor. Origin: AS. Smoca, fr. Smeocan to smoke; akin to LG. & D. Smook smoke, Dan. Smog, G. Schmauch, and perh. To Gr. To burn in a smoldering fire; cf. Lith. Smaugti to choke. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoke

smocks smog smog smoggier smoggiest smogginess smoggy smogless smogs smoile

smoiled smoiles smoiling smokable smoke (current term) smoke (current term) smoke-cured smoke-dried smoke-filled smoke-free

smokeable smoked smoked haddock smoked herring smoked mackerel smoked salmon smokehouse smokehouse smokehouses smokejack

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