fastball, heater, smoke, hummer, bullet
(noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; “he swung late on the fastball”; “he showed batters nothing but smoke”
smoke, smoking
(noun) the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; “he went outside for a smoke”; “smoking stinks”
pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane
(noun) street names for marijuana
smoke
(noun) something with no concrete substance; “his dreams all turned to smoke”; “it was just smoke and mirrors”
smoke
(noun) an indication of some hidden activity; “with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere”
smoke, fume
(noun) a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
smoke, smoking
(noun) 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”
smoke
(verb) inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; “We never smoked marijuana”; “Do you smoke?”
fume, smoke
(verb) emit a cloud of fine particles; “The chimney was fuming”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Smoke
(British, slang, with "the") London.
The 44th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
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smoke (countable and uncountable, plural smokes)
(uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
(colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
(colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
(colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
(uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
(uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
(uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
(military, uncountable) 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, slang) A fastball.
• (cigarette): cig, ciggy, cancer stick, coffin nail, fag (British)
smoke
Of the colour known as smoke.
Made of or with smoke.
smoke (third-person singular simple present smokes, present participle smoking, simple past and past participle smoked)
(transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
(intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
(intransitive) To give off smoke.
(intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
(transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
(transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
(transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
(transitive, obsolete) To make unclear or blurry.
(intransitive, slang, mostly, as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
(US, Canada, NZ, slang) To beat someone at something.
(transitive, US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
(transitive, slang, obsolete) To thrash; to beat.
(obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
(slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
To suffer severely; to be punished.
(transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
(transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
• (to inhale and exhale smoke from a burning cigarette): have a smoke
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Source: Wiktionary
Smoke, n. Etym: [AS. smoca, fr. smeócan to smoke; akin to LG. & D. smook smoke, Dan. smög, G. schmauch, and perh. to Gr. 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.
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.
2. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
3. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. Shak.
4. The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke. [Colloq.]
Note: Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. forming self- explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming, smoke-dried, smoke- stained, etc. 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.
Syn.
– Fume; reek; vapor.
Smoke, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smoked; p. pr. & vb n. Smoking.] Etym: [AS. smocian; akin to D. smoken, G. schmauchen, Dan. smöge. See Smoke, n.]
1. To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. Milton.
2. Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage. The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke agains. that man. Deut. xxix. 20.
3. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field. Dryden.
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.
5. To suffer severely; to be punished. Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. Shak.
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.
2. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume. "Smoking the temple." Chaucer.
3. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect. I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him. Chapman. He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. Shak. Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers. Addison.
4. To ridicule to the face; to quiz. [Old Slang]
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.
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
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