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Smoke

/sməʊk/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material..

Definitions by Sense

  1. (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
  2. (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
  3. (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
  4. (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
  5. (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
  6. (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
  7. (uncountable) A light grey color tinted with blue.
  8. (uncountable, slang) Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.

Example Sentences

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.
Hey, you got some smoke?
ERCS Guard: Got a smoke? We're all out.
I'm going out for a smoke.
I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke, and went on watching.
The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.

Synonyms for smoke

cigciggycancer stickcoffin nailfaghave a smokegagefumehummerpotweedgrasssessbulletdopesmokingcannabismary janefastballheaterganjamarijuanamarihuanaroll of tobaccosensskunk

Antonyms for smoke

Related Words

fumemarihuanaganjapotmarijuanacannabisdopeheaterweedbulletgrasshummerskunksessgagefastballsensmary janeroll of tobaccosmoker

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does smoke mean?

Smoke means (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material..

What is a synonym for smoke?

Common synonyms include cig, ciggy, cancer stick, coffin nail.

What is the opposite of smoke?

The opposite depends on the specific sense.

How do you use smoke in a sentence?

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.

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