smoking
(adjective) emitting smoke in great volume; āa smoking fireplaceā
smoke, smoking
(noun) the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; āhe went outside for a smokeā; āsmoking stinksā
smoke, smoking
(noun) a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion; āthe fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for milesā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
smoking
present participle of smoke
smoking (comparative more smoking, superlative most smoking)
Giving off smoke.
(slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.
(slang) Showing great skill or talent.
smoking (countable and uncountable, plural smokings)
The act or process of emitting smoke.
The burning and inhalation of tobacco.
(by extension) The burning and inhalation of other substances, e.g. marijuana.
The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavoured by smoke
(slang, obsolete) A bantering; teasing; mockery.
Source: Wiktionary
Smok"ing, a. & n.
Definition: from Smoke. Smoking bean (Bot.), the long pod of the catalpa, or Indian-bean tree, often smoked by boys as a substitute for cigars.
– Smoking car, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of passengers who smoke tobacco.
Smoke, n. Etym: [AS. smoca, fr. smeĆ³can to smoke; akin to LG. & D. smook smoke, Dan. smƶg, 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. smƶge. 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
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
