smoke

Pronunciation: /sməʊk/

The English word “smoke” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
A cigarette.
Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
A light grey color tinted with blue.
Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.
Opaque aerosol released on a battlefield, used e.g. to signal or to degrade enemy observation via smokescreen.
Pollen scattered by a plant.
Mist, fog, or drizzle; water vapour, such as from exhalation into cold air.
A fastball.
A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.

verb

To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette or cigar, burning material in a pipe, etc.
To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
To give off smoke.
Of a fire in a fireplace, to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
Of tobacco: to give off or produce smoke (in a certain manner or of a certain type).
To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
To dry or medicate by smoke.

Etymology

From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca (“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb (see below). Related to Dutch smook (“smoke”), Middle Low German smôk (“smoke”), German Schmauch (“smoke (from a gun barrel)”).

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