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Definition of Smoking

1. Adjective. Emitting smoke in great volume. "A smoking fireplace"

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

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"

Definition of Smoking

1. Verb. (present participle of smoke) ¹

2. Noun. The inhalation of tobacco, or use substances. ¹

3. Adjective. Giving off smoke. ¹

4. Adjective. (slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Smoking

1. smoke [v] - See also: smoke

Medical Definition of Smoking

1. From Smoke. Smoking bean, the long pod of the catalpa, or Indian-bean tree, often smoked by boys as a substitute for cigars. Smoking car, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of passengers who smoke tobacco. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoking

smokescreens smokeshop smokeshops smokestack smokestack industry smokestacks smokey smokey quartz smokie smokier

smokies smokiest smokily smokiness smokinesses smoking-gun smoking car smoking carriage smoking cessation smoking compartment

smoking dope smoking gun smoking guns smoking jacket smoking jackets smoking mixture smoking pole smoking room

Literary usage of Smoking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"In several studies, intentions to smoke have been associated with both the onset and continuation of smoking. Sussman et al. ..."

2. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"A highly significant correlation was shown with smoking during and/or after treatment (p ... К is Important to encourage patients to cease smoking totally, ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1913)
"That is to say, the residuum left after a first smoking may be simply heated and ... H to this residuum (known as yen shee) some additional smoking opium is ..."

4. Community-based Interventions For Smokers: The Commit Field Experience by Beti Thompson, David M. Burns, William R. Lynn, Donald Shopland (2004)
"This continuing disease burden overshadows the substantial progress made in reducing the prevalence of smoking in the past 40 years (Burns et al., ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"The rate of the pulsation was taken every minute for'a period beginning two or three minutes before the smoking began, and continuing during twenty minutes, ..."

6. The ABCs of Safe & Healthy Child Care: A Handbook for Child Care Providers by Cynthia M. Hale, Jacqueline A. Polder (2000)
"NO smoking OR USE OF ALCOHOL OR ILLEGAL DRUGS You should have a written policy stating that smoking tobacco (smoking cigars, cigarettes, or pipes) and using ..."

7. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1905)
"The Liverpool Dock Strike—smoking by Workmen. MR. NANNETTI (Dublin, College Green) : To ask the Secretary to the Board of Trade, is he aware that the ..."

8. Japan: An Account, Geographical and Historical, from the Earliest Period at by Charles MacFarlane (1852)
"I could, indeed, for the -pleasure of gentlemen who love smoking, write some sheets more on the ... But there is much worse smoking than tobacco-smoking. ..."

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