Meaning of smoke | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The 44th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
2. London.
   UK, informal
3. Synonym of Burmilla.
4. The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
   uncountable
5. The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material
6. Something that deceives or distorts the truth: Your explanation is nothing but smoke and mirrors.
7. A cigarette.
   colloquial, countable
8. A cigarette
9. 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.
10. Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
11. a form of divination involving smoke.
12. An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
    colloquial, countable
13. An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act
14. a form of divination involving fire and smoke.
15. A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
    figuratively, uncountable
16. A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result
17. treated with smoke. smoked cheese. gerookte مُدَخَّن опушен defumado uzený geräuchert røget καπνιστόςahumado suitsu-, suitsetatud دودي شده savustettu fuméמעושן भांप निकालना dimljeni (sir) füstölt asap reyktur affumicato くん製の 훈제된 rūkytas kūpināts salai gerooktrøykt, røyke-wędzony دود وهلى fumado afumat копчёный údený prekajen dimljen rökt ใช้ควัน tütsülenmiş 燻製的 копчений دھوئیں کی مدد سے پکایا گیا hun khói 熏制的
18. Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
    figuratively, uncountable
19. a person who smokes cigarettes etc. When did you become a smoker?; He's a pipe-smoker. roker مُدَخِّن пушач fumante kuřák der/die Raucher(in) ryger; -ryger καπνιστήςfumador suitsetaja سيگاري tupakoitsija fumeur/-euse מעשן धूम्रपान करने वाला pušač dohányos, dohányzó perokok reykingamaður fumatore, fumatrice 喫煙者 흡연자 rūkalius smēķētājs penghisap rokok rokerrøykerpalacz څكوونكى fumador fumător курильщик fajčiar kadilec pušač rökare คนสูบบุหรี่ sigara/puro Vb. tiryakisi 吸煙者 курець تمباکو نوش người...
    etc
20. A light grey color tinted with blue.
    uncountable
21. the habit of smoking cigarettes etc. He has given up cigarette-smoking at last; Smoking can damage your health. rook تَدْخين пушене tabagismo kouření das Rauchen rygning; -rygning κάπνισμαfumar suitsetamine استعمال دخانيات tupakointi fait de fumer עישון धूम्रपान pušenje dohányzás merokok reykingar fumo, il fumare 喫煙 흡연 rūkymas smēķēšana merokok het roken røykingpalenie څكول fumar fumat; tabagism курение fajčenie kajenje pušenje rökning การสูบบุหรี่ sigara/puro Vb. içme 吸煙 паління, куріння تمب...
    etc
22. Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.
    slang, uncountable
23. fumacento savuisuus keadaan penuh asap 연기 남, 연기 참 rokerigheid ควัน; เขม่า 煙霧 烟雾性，烟熏程度
24. Any cloud of solid particles or liquid vapor dispersed into the air; particularly one of:
    countable, uncountable
25. Opaque aerosol released on a battlefield, used e.g. to signal or to degrade enemy observation via smokescreen.
    countable, uncountable
26. a device in a building which sounds a fire alarm when smoke passes through it. rookalarm كاشف الدُخان противопожарна аларма detetor de fumaça detektor kouře der Rauchdetektor røgdetektor ανιχνευτής καπνού detector de humo suitsuandur آژير حساس به دود savuhälytin détecteur de fumée גָלַאי עָשָן धुंआ का पता लगाने वाला यंत्र detektor dima füstjelző detektor asap reykskynjari rilevatore di fumo 煙探知機 (화재 경보용) 연기 탐지기 dūmų detektorius dūmu detektors pengesan asap rookmelderrøykvarsler wykrywacz dymu...
27. Pollen scattered by a plant.
    countable, uncountable
28. A mixture of gases and small suspended particles of soot or other solids, resulting from the burning of materials such as wood or coal.
29. Mist, fog, or drizzle; water vapour, such as from exhalation into cold air.
    countable, uncountable
30. A fastball.
    countable, slang, uncountable
31. A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
    countable

Equivalents

Examples

“If those were the days, however, when steam was triumphant, they were also the days of smoke. Nowhere was this so apparent as at "Kings Cross (Suburban)" where, one after another, the Great Northern tank engines thumped their way up the incline and emerged from the tunnel, in clouds of steam and smoke, to pound their way up the last few hundred feet of gradient alongside the platform.”

“Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.”

“Can I bum a smoke off you?; I need to go buy some smokes.”

“2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance. I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out”

“Hey, you got some smoke?”

“ERCS Guard: Got a smoke? We're all out.”

“I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke, and went on watching.”

“I'm going out for a smoke.”

“The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.”

“I fed her a lot of smoke about a sheep station outside Adelaide and a big property in the high street with a glass front and ‘Thomas’ in lights. She didn’t believe me.”

“The smoke of controversy.”

“You better not be giving me no smoke.”

“There has been a great deal of smoke in the yew-trees this year. One day there was such a cloud that it seemed to be a fire in the shrubbery. […]”

“A gustful April morn / That puff'd the swaying branches into smoke.”

“[…] "fruitful cloud and living smoke" of pollen that rises from every spray. The two kinds of flowers are borne on separate trees and the resulting berries are pretty at all stages, and, when ripe, […]”

“[…] the "smoke" of pollen is so thick that distant hills look as if they are on fire. The culprit is the male cedar, which bears miniscule golden pine cones that release pollen when they pop open. The female tree produces a[…]”

“[…] a smoke of pollen drifts down upon the mat, it is covered and sealed in the ongoing growth of the sphagnum. A dusting of ash from a volcanic eruption halfway around the world becomes incorporated into the time line of its day,[…]”

“[…] steeds, whose lowdnes filled the aire with terrour, and whose breathes dimmed the sun with smoake, converted to delicate tunes and amorous glances?”

“You'll find that one of these days. If there's work ahead you ought to have sense enough not to knock smoke out of fresh horses before we begin.”

“[…] and a smoke of rain was drifting everywhere. In the thin drizzle the sheep were bleating among the dripping heather, and the birds were chattering and chirming in the shelter of the trees and bushes, and on the top of a sapling larch a[…]”

“[…] in a smoke of rain and spray on the long grey shore. The cry of curlews. Your footprints filling up with water the moment you make them. […]”

“Should the commander of one column desire to communicate with the other, he raises three smokes simultaneously, which, if seen by the other party, should be responded to in the same manner.”

“[…] and we could not discern any settlement or any people, but we did see two smokes up-river in some thick groves of oak and cork and willows and other high trees, of a good thickness, resembling ash trees.”

“In the evening haze, even the Calton Gaol took on something of the savage grandeur of a Doré drawing, and this was by no means spoilt by the rising smokes of North British engines in the ravine below.”

“During the night, a severe lightning storm passed over this area and in the morning the towerman reported two smokes separated by about two miles distance.”

“The aerial reconnaissance did see active flame on heavy fuels (logs) and fine fuels (duff/understory), and several smokes.”

“I'm heading down to the Smoke later this week.”

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