smoke

English

/sməʊk/, /smoʊk/

noun
Definitions
  • (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
  • (colloquial) A cigarette.
  • (colloquial) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
  • (colloquial) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
  • (uncountable) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
  • (uncountable) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
  • (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
  • (military) 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.
  • (baseball) A fastball.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English smoke inherited from Old English smoca (smoke).

Origin

Old English

smoca

Gloss

smoke

Concept
Semantic Field

Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

Emoji
🌋 🚬

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