Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - smoke
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n. & v. --n. 1 a visible suspension of carbon etc. in air, emitted from a burning substance. 2 an act or period of smoking tobacco (had a quiet smoke). 3 colloq. a cigarette or cigar (got a smoke?). 4 (the Smoke) Brit. & Austral. colloq. a big city, esp. London. --v. 1 intr. a emit smoke or visible vapour (smoking ruins). b (of a lamp etc.) burn badly with the emission of smoke. c (of a chimney or fire) discharge smoke into the room. 2 a intr. inhale and exhale the smoke of a cigarette or cigar or pipe. b intr. do this habitually. c tr. use (a cigarette etc.) in this way. 3 tr. darken or preserve by the action of smoke (smoked salmon). 4 tr. spoil the taste of in cooking. 5 tr. a rid of insects etc. by the action of smoke. b subdue (insects, esp. bees) in this way. 6 tr. archaic make fun of. 7 tr. bring (oneself) into a specified state by smoking. Phrases and idioms go up in smoke colloq. 1 be destroyed by fire. 2 (of a plan etc.) come to nothing. no smoke without fire rumours are not entirely baseless. smoke-ball 1 a puff-ball. 2 a projectile filled with material emitting dense smoke, used to conceal military operations etc. smoke bomb a bomb that emits dense smoke on exploding. smoke-bush = smoke-plant. smoked glass glass darkened with smoke. smoke-dried cured in smoke. smoke-ho Austral. & NZ colloq. = SMOKO. smoke out 1 drive out by means of smoke. 2 drive out of hiding or secrecy etc. smoke-plant (or -tree) any ornamental shrub of the genus Cotinus, with feathery smokelike fruit-stalks. smoke-ring smoke from a cigarette etc. exhaled in the shape of a ring. smoke-room Brit. = SMOKING-ROOM. smoke-stone cairngorm. smoke-tunnel a form of wind-tunnel using smoke filaments to show the motion of air. Derivatives smokable adj. (also smokeable). Etymology: OE smoca f. weak grade of the stem of smeocan emit smoke
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English smoca; akin to Old English smēocan to emit ~, Middle High German smouch ~, and probably to Greek smychein to smolder Date: before 12th century 1. the gaseous products of burning materials especially of organic origin made visible by the presence of small particles of carbon, a suspension of particles in a gas, 2. a mass or column of ~, smudge, fume or vapor often resulting from the action of heat on moisture, something of little substance, permanence, or value, something that obscures, 6. a. something (as a cigarette) to ~, marijuana 2, an act of smoking tobacco, 7. a pale blue, any of the colors of ~, pitches that are fastballs , ~less adjective ~like adjective II. verb (~d; smoking) Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to emit or exhale ~, to emit excessive ~, to undergo punishment ; suffer, to spread or rise like ~, to inhale and exhale the fumes of burning plant material and especially tobacco, transitive verb 1. fumigate, to drive (as mosquitoes) away by ~, to blacken or discolor with ~ , to cure by exposure to ~ , to stupefy (as bees) by ~, suspect, to inhale and exhale the ~ of , ridicule, kill 1a, to defeat or surpass decisively, to hit (as a baseball) with great force ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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