smoke

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smoke

smoke (third-person singular simple present smokes, present participle smoking, simple past and past participle smoked)

1. To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.

   Hes smoking his pipe.

2. (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually.

   Do you smoke?

3. (intransitive) To give off smoke.

   My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.

4. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.

   Youll need to smoke the meat for several hours.

5. (slang) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.

   The horn section was really smokin on that last tune.

6. (US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.

   He got smoked by the mob.

smoke (countable and uncountable; plural smokes)

1. (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
2. (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.

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

3. (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.

   Im going out for a smoke.

   • 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII

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

4. (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.

   The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.

5. (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.

   The smoke of controversy.

6. (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.

   smoke colour:

7. (military, uncountable) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
8. (baseball, slang) A fastball.
9. (UK, slang) (The Smoke) London

smoke

1. Of the colour known as smoke.

Definizione dizionario smoke

	fumare
	to inhale and exhale smoke from a burning cigarette
	to inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually
	Inalare fumo, per esempio di sigaro o sigaretta.
	To inhale smoke from for example a cigarette or a cigar.

	fumo
	visible particles and vapour given off by burning material
	Un aerosol, che consiste di particelle visibili e gas, prodotto dalla combustione incompleta di materiali a base di carbonio, come legno o combustibili fossili.
	An aerosol, consisting of visible particles and gases, produced by the incomplete burning of carbon-based materials, such as wood and fossil fuels.

	affumicare
	to preserve or prepare by treating with smoke
	To expose food to the smoke of wood fires in order to preserve it.

	fumata
	colloquial: instance of smoking

	sigaretta
	A product manufactured out of cured and finely cut leaves, which are rolled or stuffed into a paper-wrapped cylinder for smoking.

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Altri significati:

smoke (dispersal)

Of the colour known as smoke.

(colloquial, countable) A cigarette.

(eruption of) smoke

(UK, slang) ( The Smoke ) London

(colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.

(to) smoke

(a) dose

To kill a person or an animal with a shot from a firearm.

smoke (e.g. fire)

(baseball, slang) A fastball.

(intransitive) To give off smoke.

To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.

figurative: fleeting illusion

(US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.

(uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.

smoke colour:

smoke (e.g. a pipe)

To give off smoke.

(uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; '''see also''' smoke and mirrors .

colloquial: cigarette

(slang) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.

of the colour known as smoke

(uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.

To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.

slang: to kill, especially with a gun

(military, uncountable) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.

to give off smoke

something used to obscure or conceal

military: artificial smoke-like aerosol used on the battlefield

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

(intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually.