smoke

Definitions of smoke in various dictionaries:

noun - a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

noun - a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion

noun - an indication of some hidden activity

noun - something with no concrete substance

noun - tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder

noun - street names for marijuana

noun - the act of smoking tobacco or other substances

noun - (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

verb - inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes

verb - emit a cloud of fine particles

The vaporous system made up of small particles of carbonaceous matter in the air, resulting mainly from the burning of organic material, such as wood or coal.

A suspension of fine solid or liquid particles in a gaseous medium.

A cloud of fine particles.

Something insubstantial, unreal, or transitory.

The act of smoking a form of tobacco: went out for a smoke.

The duration of this act.

Tobacco in a form that can be smoked, especially a cigarette: money to buy smokes.

A substance used in warfare to produce a smoke screen.

Something used to conceal or obscure.

A pale to grayish blue to bluish or dark gray.

To draw in and exhale smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe: It’s forbidden to smoke here.

To engage in smoking regularly or habitually: He smoked for years before stopping.

To emit smoke or a smokelike substance: chimneys smoking in the cold air.

To emit smoke excessively: The station wagon smoked even after the tune-up.

Slang.

To go or proceed at high speed.

To play or perform energetically: The band was really smoking in the second set.

To draw in and exhale the smoke of (tobacco, for example): I’ve never smoked a panatela.

To do so regularly or habitually: I used to smoke filtered cigarettes.

To preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to the aromatic smoke of burning hardwood, usually after pickling in salt or brine.

To fumigate (a house, for example).

To expose (animals, especially insects) to smoke in order to immobilize or drive away.

To expose (glass) to smoke in order to darken or change its color.

To kill; murder.

To force out of a place of hiding or concealment by or as if by the use of smoke.

To detect and bring to public view; expose or reveal: smoke out a scandal.

adj - to emit smoke (the gaseous product of burning materials) [v SMOKED, SMOKING, SMOKES] : SMOKABLE

SMOKE - Smoke is a collection of airborne solid and liquid particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with th...