smoke
Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
smoke
(smōk)n.
1.
a. A mixture of gases and small suspended particles of soot or other solids, resulting from the burning of materials such as wood or coal.
b. A cloud of such gases and suspended particles.
c. A vapor, mist, or fume that resembles this.
2. Something insubstantial, unreal, or transitory: "What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion" (Henry David Thoreau).
3.
a. The act of smoking a form of tobacco: went out for a smoke.
b. The duration of this act.
4. Informal Tobacco in a form that can be smoked, especially a cigarette: money to buy smokes.
5. A substance used in warfare to produce a smokescreen.
6. Something used to conceal or obscure.
7. A pale to grayish blue to bluish or dark gray.
8. Baseball Pitches thrown at high velocity; fast balls: threw a lot of smoke in the early innings.
v. smoked, smok·ing, smokes
v.intr.
1.
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.
2. To emit smoke or a smokelike substance: chimneys smoking in the cold air.
3. To emit smoke excessively: The station wagon smoked even after the tune-up.
4. Slang
a. To go or proceed at high speed.
b. To play or perform energetically: The band was really smoking in the second set.
v.tr.
Phrasal Verb: 1.
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.
2. To preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to the aromatic smoke of burning hardwood, usually after pickling in salt or brine.
3.
a. To fumigate (a house, for example).
b. To expose (animals, especially insects) to smoke in order to immobilize or drive away.
4. To expose (glass) to smoke in order to darken or change its color.
5. Slang
a. To kill; murder.
b. To defeat decisively, as in a competition.
6. Baseball To throw (a pitch) at high velocity.
smoke out
Idioms: 1. To force out of a place of hiding or concealment by or as if by the use of smoke.
2. To detect and bring to public view; expose or reveal: smoke out a scandal.
go up in smoke
1. To be destroyed by fire.
2. To experience complete failure in an attempt to do or achieve something: Our plans to open a bakery went up in smoke when we were unable to secure funding.
smoke and mirrors
Something that deceives or distorts the truth: Your explanation is nothing but smoke and mirrors.
[Middle English, from Old English smoca.]
smok′a·ble, smoke′a·ble adj.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
smoke
(sməʊk)n
1. (Chemistry) the product of combustion, consisting of fine particles of carbon carried by hot gases and air
2. (Chemistry) any cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
3. (Brewing)
a. the act of smoking tobacco or other substances, esp in a pipe or as a cigarette or cigar
b. the duration of smoking such substances
4. (Brewing) informal
a. a cigarette or cigar
b. a substance for smoking, such as pipe tobacco or marijuana
5. something with no concrete or lasting substance: everything turned to smoke.
6. a thing or condition that obscures
7. (Colours) any of various colours similar to that of smoke, esp a dark grey with a bluish, yellowish, or greenish tinge
8. go up in smoke end up in smoke
a. to come to nothing
b. to burn up vigorously
c. to flare up in anger
vb
9. (intr) to emit smoke or the like, sometimes excessively or in the wrong place
10. (Brewing)
a. to draw in on (a burning cigarette, etc) and exhale the smoke
b. to use tobacco for smoking
11. (Recreational Drugs) (intr) slang to use marijuana for smoking
12. (tr) to bring (oneself) into a specified state by smoking
13. (tr) to subject or expose to smoke
14. (Cookery) (tr) to cure (meat, fish, cheese, etc) by treating with smoke
15. (tr) to fumigate or purify the air of (rooms, etc)
16. (Ceramics) (tr) to darken (glass, etc) by exposure to smoke
17. (intr) slang to move, drive, ride, etc, very fast
18. (tr) obsolete to tease or mock
19. (tr) archaic to suspect or detect
[Old English smoca (n); related to Middle Dutch smieken to emit smoke]
ˈsmokable, ˈsmokeable adj
Smoke
(sməʊk)n
the Smoke short for Big Smoke
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
smoke
(smoʊk)n., v. smoked, smok•ing. n.
1. the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning substance, esp. the mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood or other organic matter.
2. something resembling this, as vapor or mist.
3. something unsubstantial, fleeting, or without result.
4. an obscuring condition: the smoke of controversy.
5. an act or spell of smoking something, esp. tobacco.
6. something for smoking, as a cigarette.
7. Physics, Chem. a system of solid particles suspended in a gaseous medium.
8. a bluish or brownish gray.
v.i. 9. to give off or emit smoke, as in burning.
10. to give out smoke offensively or improperly, as a stove.
11. to send forth steam or vapor, dust, or the like.
12. to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of tobacco or the like, as from a pipe or cigarette.
13. Slang. to move or travel with great speed.
v.t. 14. to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of: to smoke tobacco.
15. to use (a pipe, cigarette, etc.) in this process.
16. to expose to smoke.
17. to fumigate (rooms, furniture, etc.).
18. to cure (meat, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke.
19. to color or darken by smoke.
20. smoke out,
Idioms: a. to drive from a refuge by means of smoke.
b. to force into public view or knowledge; expose.
1. blow smoke,
a. to speak deceitfully or misleadingly.
b. to boast; exaggerate.
2. go up in smoke, to terminate without producing a result; be unsuccessful.
[before 1000; (n.) Middle English; Old English smoca, akin to Middle Dutch smoock, Middle High German smouch; (v.) Middle English smoken, Old English smocian]
smok′a•ble, smoke′a•ble, adj.
smoke′less, adj.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
smoke
(smōk) A mixture of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other gases, usually containing particles of soot or other solids, produced by the burning of carbon-containing materials such as wood or coal.
The American Heritage® Student Science Dictionary, Second Edition. Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Smoke
See also fire.
a form of divination involving smoke.
a form of divination involving fire and smoke.
1. the state or condition of being sooty or smoky.
2. soot or smoke. — fuliginous, adj.
2. soot or smoke. — fuliginous, adj.
-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
smoke
Past participle: smoked
Gerund: smoking
| Imperative |
|---|
| smoke |
| smoke |
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Switch to new thesaurus
| Noun | 1. |  smoke - a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gasaerosol - a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas gun smoke - smoke created by the firing of guns smother - a stifling cloud of smoke |
| 2. | smoke - 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" | |
| 3. | smoke - an indication of some hidden activity; "with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere" indicant, indication - something that serves to indicate or suggest; "an indication of foul play"; "indications of strain"; "symptoms are the prime indicants of disease" | |
| 4. | smoke - something with no concrete substance; "his dreams all turned to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors" insubstantiality - lacking substance or reality colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | |
| 5. | smoke - tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder | |
| 6. |  smoke - street names for marijuana | |
| 7. |  smoke - the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks"breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation - the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation puffing - blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing" | |
| 8. |  smoke - (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke"slider - a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" | |
| Verb | 1. | smoke - inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?" ingest, consume, have, take in, take - serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" chain-smoke - smoke one cigarette after another; light one cigarette from the preceding one inhale - draw deep into the lungs in by breathing; "Clinton smoked marijuana but never inhaled" |
| 2. | smoke - emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming" |
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
smoke
noun
1. fumes The air was thick with cigarette smoke.
verb
2. puff on, draw on, inhale, drag on (informal) He didn't argue, he just quietly smoked a cigarette.
3. preserve The fish was being smoked.
go up in smoke come to nothing, vanish, be shattered, be ruined Their dreams had gone up in smoke.
smoke something or someone out detect, find, catch, reveal, discover, expose, disclose, uncover, track down, unmask new technology to smoke out tax evaders
Quotations
"As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake" [Mark Twain 70th birthday speech]
"As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake" [Mark Twain 70th birthday speech]
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
Translations
kouřitkouřkouřeníuditdým
røgrygesmøgrøge
fumo
suitssuitsetama
دود
savutasavusavunharmaasavustaasavut
dimpušiti
dohányzikfüstölfüst
rokok
reykurreykjareykja, ósa, rjúka
煙煙を出す
연기연기를 뿜다
fumarefumus
be dūmųbedūmisdūmasdūmų detektoriusdūmų uždanga
dūmidūmotkūpinātsmēķēšanasmēķēt
fum
dymdymiťfajčiťúdiť
dimkaditi
rökrökarykacigg
moshi
ควันมีควัน
dumanduman çıkarmakdumanı tütmeksigara/puro içmesigara/puro içmek
bốc khóikhói
smoke
[sməʊk]A. N
1. → humo m
cigarette smoke → humo m de cigarrillos
smoke blue → azul m grisáceo
smoke grey → gris m humo
to go up in smoke [building] → quemarse (totalmente); [plans] → quedar en agua de borrajas; [hopes, money] → esfumarse; [future] → malograrse
the (Big) Smoke (Brit) → Londres
smoke and mirrors (esp US) → artificios mpl
there's no smoke without fire; where there's smoke there's fire → cuando el río suena, piedras or agua lleva
cigarette smoke → humo m de cigarrillos
smoke blue → azul m grisáceo
smoke grey → gris m humo
to go up in smoke [building] → quemarse (totalmente); [plans] → quedar en agua de borrajas; [hopes, money] → esfumarse; [future] → malograrse
the (Big) Smoke (Brit) → Londres
smoke and mirrors (esp US) → artificios mpl
there's no smoke without fire; where there's smoke there's fire → cuando el río suena, piedras or agua lleva
2. (= cigarette) → pitillo m, cigarrillo m, cigarro m
I'm dying for a smoke → tengo unas ganas locas de fumarme un pitillo or un cigarrillo or un cigarro
to have a smoke → fumar(se) un pitillo or un cigarrillo or un cigarro
I'm dying for a smoke → tengo unas ganas locas de fumarme un pitillo or un cigarrillo or un cigarro
to have a smoke → fumar(se) un pitillo or un cigarrillo or un cigarro
B. VT
1. [+ cigarette, cigar, pipe] → fumar
she smoked 60 a day → (se) fumaba 60 al día
she wouldn't let him smoke his pipe (in general) → no le dejaba fumar en pipa; (on one occasion) → no le dejaba fumarse su pipa
she smoked 60 a day → (se) fumaba 60 al día
she wouldn't let him smoke his pipe (in general) → no le dejaba fumar en pipa; (on one occasion) → no le dejaba fumarse su pipa
2. (Culin) [+ bacon, fish, cheese] → ahumar
C. VI
1. (= emit smoke) → echar humo
the chimney always smoked → la chimenea siempre estaba echando humo
the chimney was smoking, so someone was home → salía humo de la chimenea, así que había alguien en casa
the chimney always smoked → la chimenea siempre estaba echando humo
the chimney was smoking, so someone was home → salía humo de la chimenea, así que había alguien en casa
2. [person] → fumar
do you smoke? → ¿fumas?
do you mind if I smoke? → ¿le importa que fume?
to smoke like a chimney → fumar como un carretero or como una chimenea
do you smoke? → ¿fumas?
do you mind if I smoke? → ¿le importa que fume?
to smoke like a chimney → fumar como un carretero or como una chimenea
D. CPD smoke alarm N → detector m de humo, alarma f contra incendios
smoke bomb N → bomba f or granada f de humo
smoke detector N → detector m de humo
smoke ring N → anillo m or aro m de humo
to blow smoke rings → hacer anillos or aros de humo
smoke shop N (US) → estanco m
smoke signal N → señal f de humo
smoke bomb N → bomba f or granada f de humo
smoke detector N → detector m de humo
smoke ring N → anillo m or aro m de humo
to blow smoke rings → hacer anillos or aros de humo
smoke shop N (US) → estanco m
smoke signal N → señal f de humo
smoke out VT + ADV (lit) [+ animal, demonstrators] → hacer salir con humo (fig) (= expose) → poner al descubierto
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
smoke
[ˈsməʊk]Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
smoke
n
→ Rauch m; there’s no smoke without fire, where there’s smoke there’s fire (prov) → wo Rauch ist, da ist auch Feuer (prov); to go up in smoke → in Rauch (und Flammen) aufgehen; (fig) → sich in Wohlgefallen auflösen; (inf: = get angry) → in die Luft gehen (inf); it’s all smoke and mirrors (US) → das ist nur Blendwerk
vi → rauchen; (oil lamp etc) → qualmen; to smoke like a chimney → wie ein Schlot rauchen; do you mind if I smoke? → stört es (Sie), wenn ich rauche?
smoke
:smoke alarm
n → Rauchmelder m
smoke bomb
n → Rauchbombe f
smoke
:smoke-filled
adj room → verräuchert, verqualmt
smoke-free
adj zone → rauchfrei
smoke hood
n (on plane) → Sauerstoffmaske f
smoke
:smoke ring
n → (Rauch)ring m
smokeroom
n → Rauchsalon m, → Rauchzimmer nt
smoke screen
n → Nebelwand f, → Rauchvorhang m; (fig) → Deckmantel m, → Vorwand m; a smoke of words → ein Schwall m → von Worten; his answer was just a smoke → seine Antwort war nur ein Ablenkungsmanöver nt
smoke signal
n → Rauchzeichen nt
smokestack
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
smoke
[sməʊk]1. n
a. → fumo
there's no smoke without fire → non c'è fumo senza arrosto
to go up in smoke (house) → andare distrutto/a dalle fiamme (fig) → andare in fumo
there's no smoke without fire → non c'è fumo senza arrosto
to go up in smoke (house) → andare distrutto/a dalle fiamme (fig) → andare in fumo
b. to have a smoke (cigarette, pipe) → fare una fumatina
2. vt
a. (tobacco) → fumare
b. (bacon, fish, cheese) → affumicare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
smoke
(sməuk) noun1. the cloudlike gases and particles of soot given off by something which is burning. Smoke was coming out of the chimney; He puffed cigarette smoke into my face.
2. an act of smoking (a cigarette etc). I came outside for a smoke.
verb1. to give off smoke.
2. to draw in and puff out the smoke from (a cigarette etc). I don't smoke, but he smokes cigars.
3. to dry, cure, preserve (ham, fish etc) by hanging it in smoke.
smoked adjective treated with smoke. smoked cheese.
ˈsmokeless adjective1. allowing no smoke. Our part of the town is a smokeless zone.
2. burning without smoke. smokeless fuel.
ˈsmoker noun a person who smokes cigarettes etc. When did you become a smoker?; He's a pipe-smoker.
ˈsmoking noun the habit of smoking cigarettes etc. He has given up cigarette-smoking at last; Smoking can damage your health.
ˈsmoky adjective1. filled with, or giving out (too much) smoke. The atmosphere in the room was thick and smoky.
2. like smoke in appearance etc.
ˈsmokiness
nounsmoke detector
a device in a building which sounds a fire alarm when smoke passes through it.
ˈsmokescreen noun1. a cloud of smoke used to conceal the movements of troops etc.
2. something intended to conceal one's activities etc.
go up in smoke1. to be completely destroyed by fire. The whole house went up in smoke.
2. to vanish very quickly leaving nothing behind. All his plans have gone up in smoke.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
smoke
→ دُخَّان, يُدَخِّنُ kouř, kouřit røg, ryge Rauch, rauchen καπνίζω, καπνός fumar, humear, humo savu, savuta fumée, fumer dim, pušiti fumare, fumo 煙, 煙を出す 연기, 연기를 뿜다 roken, rook røyk, røyke dym, palić fumaça, fumegar, fumo дым, дымить(ся) rök, röka ควัน, มีควัน duman, dumanı tütmek bốc khói, khói 冒烟, 烟Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
smoke
n. humo;
___ inhalation → inhalación de ___;
___ screen → cortina de ___;
v. fumar;
Do not ___ here → No fume, no fumes aquí.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
- Where can I smoke?
- My room smells like smoke (US)
My room smells of smoke (UK) - Do you mind if I smoke?
- Do you smoke?
Collins Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
smoke
n humo; secondhand tobacco — humo ambiental del tabaco, humo de tabaco de segunda mano; vt, vi fumarEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.