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smoke
I. \ˈsmōk\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English smoca; akin to Old English smēocan to emit smoke, Middle Dutch smieken to emit smoke, Middle High German smouch smoke, Greek smychein to smolder, Lithuanian smáugti to suffocate, choke
1.
a.
(1) : the gaseous products of burning carbonaceous materials made visible by the presence of small particles of carbon
(2) : a similar incompletely burned volatilized product resulting from incomplete combustion and finally settling as soot — compare flame 1
b. : a suspension of solid or liquid particles in a gas : fume 1
2.
a.
(1) : a mass or column of smoke
< the fifty smokes … curling from the valley — J.F.Cooper >
(2) : a smudge used especially to drive away insects
b. archaic : fireside, hearth
3.
a. : fume or vapor often resulting from the action of heat on moisture
< steeds … whose breaths dimmed the sun with smoke — John Lyly >
b. smokes plural : dense white mists occurring in the dry season along the Guinea coast of Africa
4. : visible or tangible evidence (as of secret activity)
< such a hell of a lot of smoke … that there must be enough flame to justify refusing a divorce — F.M.Ford >
5. : something of little substance, permanence, or value
< these aspirations and visions were only smoke — Van Wyck Brooks >
6. : something tending to cloud or obscure
< most of the smoke generated by the alleged conflict between poetry and science — C.I.Glicksberg >
7.
a.
(1) : something to smoke : tobacco — often used in plural
< what they spend each year on smokes is … less than what they spend on liquor — Dwight Macdonald >
(2) : cigarette
< a reduction to seven cents a pack on smokes — G.E.Cruikshank >
b. [smoke (II) ] : an act or spell of smoking tobacco
< let's light our pipes and take a short smoke — A.B.Longstreet >
8.
a. : a pale blue that is redder and paler than average powder blue or Sistine and redder and duller than average cadet gray
b. : any of the colors of smoke viewed against various usual backgrounds (as smoke blue, smoke brown, smoke gray, smoke yellow)
c. : a nearly neutral slightly reddish dark gray that is darker than grebe or lead
9.
a. : cheap liquor
b. : any of various drinks used as a substitute for liquor; specifically : a drink consisting of wood alcohol and water
10. : speed
< a pitcher with plenty of smoke on his fast ball >
11. : negro — often taken to be offensive
12. : smoke cat
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English smoken, from Old English smocian, from smoca, n.
intransitive verb
1.
a.
(1) : to emit or exhale smoke
< hard by a cottage chimney smokes — John Milton >
(2) : to emit smoke as the result of faulty burning or inadequate draft
< the wick … flared and smoked — D.R.Murphy >
b. : to give off something resembling smoke
< the marsh smokes in the sun >
especially : steam
< the horse's flanks smoked >
2. archaic : to undergo severe pain or punishment : suffer
< some of you shall smoke for it in Rome — Shakespeare >
3.
a. : to spread like smoke
< a yellow mist far smoking o'er the interminable plain — James Thomson †1748 >
b. : to rise like or as if like smoke
< the anger of the Lord and his jealousy would smoke against that man — Deut 29: 20 (Revised Standard Version) >
4.
a. : to inhale and exhale the fumes of tobacco or something resembling tobacco from a pipe, cigar, or cigarette
< has been smoking for six years >
b. : to serve in a specified way for smoking
< the larger sizes smoked the best — Ben Riker >
5. archaic : to have a notion or understanding of something : comprehend
6. : to go at a rapid rate : speed
< smoked along over the levels as fast as a pack in full cry — Rudyard Kipling >
7. Australia : to run away : abscond
8. of a clay pigeon : to break into small pieces : shatter
transitive verb
1. : to subject to the action of smoke: as
a. : fumigate
< a good day for smoking ship — R.H.Dana >
b. : to drive away (as mosquitoes) by smoke
c. : to blacken or discolor with smoke
< looked at the sun through smoked glasses — Ellen Glasgow >
d. : to cure (as meat) by exposure to smoke
< smoked ham >
< smoked salmon >
e. : to stupefy (as bees) by smoke
2. archaic : to have an inkling or suspicion of : suspect
< it's a capital notion … if he doesn't smoke the trick — Samuel Lover >
3.
a. : to inhale and exhale the smoke of : use in smoking
< smoked one cigarette after another >
< smoked a pipe for many years >
b. : to bring to a specified state by smoking
< if a man smoke himself to death — James I >
4. archaic : to make fun of : ridicule
< smoked her and baited her and … drove her away — John Keats >
5. archaic : to take notice of : observe
< smoke his eyes, how they glare — John Wilson †1854 >
6. : to cover with smoke so as to prevent enemy observation
< the wind and terrain were adaptable to smoking another mountainside on our right forward flank — G.E.Lynch >
7. : to cause (a clay pigeon) to break into small pieces
III. transitive verb
1. slang : kill 1a
2. slang : to defeat decisively
< smoked the competition > |