smoke
has definitions from the fields of baseball,biology,pharmacology,chemistry
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[ noun ] a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
Synonyms Used in print (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)The third level leans_on a belief that a_lot of smoke means some fire . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)Al_'s_Little_Cafe was small , dark , narrow , and filled with the mingled scent of beer , tobacco smoke , and Italian cooking . (Howard Fast, April Morning....)We were less than a quarter of a mile from the road , and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke and dust that hung over it . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)The smoke from that chimney rose as sluggishly as smoke from any other , and hung as sadly in the drizzle , creeping back_down along the sopping canvas of the roof . The smoke from that chimney rose as sluggishly as smoke from any other , and hung as sadly in the drizzle , creeping back_down along the sopping canvas of the roof . |
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[ verb ] inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
Examples "We never smoked marijuana" "Do you smoke?" Used in print (Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)Then Rector , attired in his best blue serge suit , sat in a chair out on the lawn , in the shade of a tree , smoking a cigarette and waiting . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)He had lived for almost thirty years in this same stone farmhouse with the same wife , a remarkably childish thing in itself ; he rose at half past six every morning , made himself some French coffee , had his corn_flakes and more coffee , smoked four cigarettes while reading last Sunday 's Herald_Tribune and yesterday 's Pittsburgh_Gazette , then put_on his high-topped farmer 's shoes and walked under a vine bower to his workshop . (Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)They all sat around and drank ice_water , and the men smoked , and everybody had a good time . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young_man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot_Sands - he of the porch steps anecdotes - who smoked cigarettes , performed the tango , wore fifty dollar suits , and sneaked_off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)He would order her to bring coffee , and would take from his vest_pocket a thin black pipe which he would stuff - he would not remove his gloves - and light and smoke . Related terms consume puff inhale chain-smoke dope smoker roll_of_tobacco exhale inhale |
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[ noun ] (chemistry) a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
Synonyms Examples "the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles" Used in print (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)Behind him billowed a small pungent cloud of smoke . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)Leaves were burning somewhere and the smoke smelled , for all its ammoniac acidity , of beginnings . Related terms |
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[ noun ] tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
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[ noun ] (informal) something with no concrete substance
Examples "his dreams all turned to smoke" "it was just smoke and mirrors" Related terms |
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[ noun ] an indication of some hidden activity
Examples "with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (pharmacology) the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect
Related terms soft_drug controlled_substance dope acapulco_gold hemp joint |
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