Meaning of scent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A distinctive smell.
   countable, uncountable
2. A distinctive smell
3. A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
   countable, uncountable
4. A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing
5. To hunt prey by means of the sense of smell. Used of hounds.
6. The sense of smell.
   countable, uncountable
7. The sense of smell
8. (negative unscented) sweet-smelling. scented soap. gegeur مُطَيَّب، مُعَطَّر ароматизиран perfumado voňavý duftend parfumeret αρωματικός, αρωματισμένος perfumado lõhnama خوش بو hajustettu parfumé מְבוּשָׂם सुगन्धित mirisan, namirisan illatos(ított) wangi ilmandi; með ilmefnum profumato よい匂いのする 향기로운 kvepiantis smaržīgs; smaržojošs wangi geparfumeerdparfymertpachnący, perfumowany خوږ بويه perfumado parfumat душистый voňavý odišavljen mirišljav parfymerad กลิ่นหอม (hoş) kokulu 有香味的 ароматизовани...
   negative
9. A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
   uncountable
10. A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell
11. to give (a person) wrong information so that he will not find the person, thing etc he is looking for. She told the police a lie in order to throw them off the scent. van die spoor af bring يُعْطي مَعلومات خاطِئَه заблуждавам despistar svést ze stopy von der richtigen Spur ablenken vildlede παραπλανώ, δίνω ψευδείς πληροφορίες despistar a alguien eksiteele viima رد گم كردن eksyttää jäljiltä dérouter לְהַטעוֹת, לְהָסִית भटकाना, भटका देना, बहकाना smesti sa traga hamis nyomra vezet vkit menyesatk...
    etc
12. Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
13. Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase
14. olor; aroma, perfume.
15. Sense, perception.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
16. A distinctive, often agreeable odor. See Synonyms at fragrance, smell.
17. A perfume: an expensive French scent.
18. An odor left by the passing of an animal.
19. The trail of a hunted animal or fugitive: The hounds are on the scent.
20. The sense of smell: a bear's keen scent.
21. A hint of something imminent; a suggestion: caught the scent of a reconciliation.

Equivalents

Examples

“the scent of flowers / of a skunk”

“to give off / release / exude a scent”

“to breathe in / inhale a scent”

“hunger and thirst at once, / Powerful perswaders, quick’nd at the scent / Of that alluring fruit,”

“The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer,”

“Behind me the forest stood wrapped in mist, its scents still sleeping.”

“The air is thick with the unexpected scent of rain.”

“The dogs picked up / caught the scent but then quickly lost it.”

“He […] twice to-day pick’d out the dullest scent; / Trust me, I take him for the better dog.”

“But see how the dogs puzzle about there. Come, Mr Frank, the scent’s cold;”

“I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs.”

“His houndes espyde him where he was, and Blacksoote first of all / And Stalker speciall good of sent began aloud to call.”

“No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring:”

“[I]nnumerable flowers, sweet to the scent and the eyes”

“Keen is the scent of the slaveholder; like the fangs of the rattlesnake, his malice retains its poison long; and, although it is now nearly seventeen years since I made my escape, it is well to be careful, in dealing with the circumstances relating to it.”

“a scent shop”

“a scent bazaar”

“He was drowned in scent—fairly stunk with it, Captain Marlow.”

“He receives deputations from the bazaar, and they all chew betel nut and smear one another’s hands with scent.”

“He took a clean handkerchief (a lovely one such as you couldn’t buy today) out of the little left-hand drawer and put a few drops of scent on it.”

“He went tripping away under a canvas umbrella, trailing the smell of cheap scent.”

“The minister's off-hand remark put journalists on the scent of a cover-up.”

“The tip put the detectives on a false scent / the wrong scent.”

“to pick up a scent / get scent of something”

discover one of a series of clues in the trail of evidence

“to throw / put someone off the scent”

distract them from following the trail of evidence

“Mrs. Wilkins having […] by Accident, gotten a true Scent of the above Story […] failed not to satisfy herself thoroughly of all the Particulars,”

“Before marriage it is their business to please men; and after, with a few exceptions, they follow the same scent with all the persevering pertinacity of instinct.”

“Gullivant had to be firmly identified with Compton, the convict, in such a way as to bring the police hot on the scent.”

“A fit false dreame, that can delude the sleepers sent.”

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