Found 7 hits - Term: smoke, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
smoke \smoke\ sm=ok, n. as. smoca, fr. sme'ocan to smoke;
akin to lg. d. smook smoke, dan. sm"og, g. schmauch, and
perh. to gr. ??? to burn in a smoldering fire; cf. lith.
smaugti to choke.
1. the visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes,
or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning
vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.
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note: the gases of hydrocarbons, raised to a red heat or
thereabouts, without a mixture of air enough to produce
combustion, disengage their carbon in a fine powder,
forming smoke. the disengaged carbon when deposited on
solid bodies is soot.
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2. that which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
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3. anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. --shak.
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4. the act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a
smoke. colloq.
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note: smoke is sometimes joined with other word. forming
self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming,
smoke-dried, smoke-stained, etc.
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smoke arch, the smoke box of a locomotive.
smoke ball mil., a ball or case containing a composition
which, when it burns, sends forth thick smoke.
smoke black, lampblack. obs.
smoke board, a board suspended before a fireplace to
prevent the smoke from coming out into the room.
smoke box, a chamber in a boiler, where the smoke, etc.,
from the furnace is collected before going out at the
chimney.
smoke sail naut., a small sail in the lee of the galley
stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on
deck.
smoke tree bot., a shrub rhus cotinus in which the
flowers are mostly abortive and the panicles transformed
into tangles of plumose pedicels looking like wreaths of
smoke.
to end in smoke, to burned; hence, to be destroyed or
ruined; figuratively, to come to nothing.
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syn: fume; reek; vapor.
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see also:
smoke arch smoke ball smoke black smoke board smoke box smoke sail
smoke tree rhus cotinus to end in smoke
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
smoke \smoke\, v. t.
1. to apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to
cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected
clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.
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2. to fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense;
to perfume. "smoking the temple." --chaucer.
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3. to smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
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i alone
smoked his true person, talked with him. --chapman.
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he was first smoked by the old lord lafeu. --shak.
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upon that . . . i began to smoke that they were a
parcel of mummers. --addison.
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4. to ridicule to the face; to quiz. old slang
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5. to inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn
or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar.
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6. to subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of
annoying or driving out; -- often with out; as, to smoke a
woodchuck out of his burrow.
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- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
smoke \smoke\, v. i. imp. p. p. smoked; p. pr. vb n.
smoking. as. smocian; akin to d. smoken, g. schmauchen,
dan. sm"oge. see smoke, n.
1. to emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of
vapor or exhalation; to reek.
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hard by a cottage chimney smokes. --milton.
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2. hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
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the anger of the lord and his jealousy shall smoke
agains. that man. --deut. xxix.
20.
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3. to raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
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proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
--dryden.
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4. to draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a
pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to
habitually use tobacco in this manner.
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5. to suffer severely; to be punished.
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some of you shall smoke for it in rome. --shak.
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see also:
smoked smoking smoke
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
smoke
n 1: a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas syn: fume
2: a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being
produced by combustion; "the fire produced a tower of
black smoke that could be seen for miles" syn: smoking
3: an indication of some hidden activity; "with all that smoke
there must be a fire somewhere"
4: something with no concrete substance; "his dreams all turned
to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors"
5: tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder syn: roll
of tobacco
6: street names for marijuana syn: pot, grass, green
goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, skunk,
locoweed, mary jane
7: the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went
outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks" syn: smoking
8: baseball a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung
late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but
smoke" syn: fastball, heater, hummer, bullet
v 1: inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "we
never smoked marijuana"; "do you smoke?"
2: emit a cloud of fine particles; "the chimney was fuming"
syn: fume
see also:
fume smoking roll of tobacco pot grass green goddess
dope weed gage sess sens
skunk locoweed mary jane fastball heater
hummer bullet
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
285 moby thesaurus words for "smoke":
aerate, aerify, afterdamp, air, air-dry, airy nothing, anhydrate,
ash, ashes, atomize, attaint, bake, be livid, be pissed, becloud,
bedarken, bedaub, befog, begrime, bemire, bemist, bemud, besmear,
besmirch, besmoke, bestain, black, blackdamp, blacken, blackwash,
blast-freeze, blot, blotch, blow, blur, bluster, boil, brand,
breath, breathe out, brine, browned off, brush, bubble, bucket,
bullet, burn, butt, calx, carbon, carbonate, carry on, chafe,
chain-smoke, charcoal, chaw, chew, chewing, chlorinate, chokedamp,
cinder, clabber up, clinker, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, coal,
coke, coom, cork, corn, crow, cure, damp, darken, darken over,
daub, dehumidify, dehydrate, denigrate, desiccate, dinge, dirt,
dirty, dirty up, discolor, distill, drag, drain, draw, dross, dry,
dry-cure, dry-salt, dust, ebon, ebonize, ebony, effluvium, embalm,
emit, encloud, enmist, ephemera, ephemeral, ephemerid, ephemerides,
ephemeris, ether, etherify, etherize, evacuate, evaporate,
exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expire, exsiccate, fag, fetid air,
fire, firedamp, flatus, fluid, fluidize, fly, fog, fractionate,
freeze, freeze-dry, fret, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off,
give out, give vent to, go on, grime, habitual smoking, hasten,
have a conniption, haze, hydrogenate, illusion, inhale,
inhale snuff, ink, insolate, irradiate, jerk, jet, kiln, kipper,
lava, let out, malaria, marinade, marinate, mark, mayfly, melanize,
mephitis, miasma, mire, mist, muck, muck up, muddy, mummify, murk,
nicotine addiction, nicotinism, night, nigrify, nubilate,
obnubilate, obscure, open the floodgates, open the sluices,
overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, oxygenate, parch,
perfume, phantom, pickle, pissed off, pitch, preservatize, puff,
puff of smoke, pull, quick-freeze, rage, raise cain, raise hell,
raise the devil, raise the roof, rant, rant and rave, rave, raven,
reek, refrigerate, rub, run, rush, salt, scorch, scoria, sear,
season, seethe, send out, shade, shadow, shrivel, simmer, singe,
sizzle, slag, slime, sloe, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smog,
smoke-cure, smokes, smoking, smoking habit, smokings, smolder,
smudge, smut, smutch, snows of yesteryear, soak up, soil, soot,
speed, spirit, sponge, spray, stain, steam, stew, stigmatize,
storm, stuff, sublimate, sublime, sullage, sun, sun-dry, swab,
tabacism, tabacosis, tabagism, taint, take on, take snuff, tar,
tarnish, thin air, throw a fit, throw off, tobaccoism, torrefy,
towel, vapor, vaporize, volatile, volatilize, water vapor, weazen,
whiz, wipe, wither, wizen, zip
- [6] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
smoke vi. 1. to crash or blow up, usually spectacularly. "the new
version smoked, just like the last one." used for both hardware where
it often describes an actual physical event, and software where it's
merely colorful. 2. from automotive slang to be conspicuously fast.
"that processor really smokes." compare magic smoke.
see also:
crash magic smoke
- [7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
smoke
1. to crash or blow up, usually spectacularly. "the new
version smoked, just like the last one." used for both
hardware where it often describes an actual physical event,
and software where it's merely colourful.
2. automotive slang to be conspicuously fast. "that
processor really smokes." compare magic smoke.
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see also:
crash magic smoke jargon file
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