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smoke
(smōk)n.
1.
a. A mixture of gases and small suspended particles of soot or other solids, resulting from the burning of materials such as wood or coal.
b. A cloud of such gases and suspended particles.
c. A vapor, mist, or fume that resembles this.
2. Something insubstantial, unreal, or transitory: "What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion" (Henry David Thoreau).
3.
a. The act of smoking a form of tobacco: went out for a smoke.
b. The duration of this act.
4. Informal Tobacco in a form that can be smoked, especially a cigarette: money to buy smokes.
5. A substance used in warfare to produce a smokescreen.
6. Something used to conceal or obscure.
7. A pale to grayish blue to bluish or dark gray.
8. Baseball Pitches thrown at high velocity; fast balls: threw a lot of smoke in the early innings.
v. smoked, smok·ing, smokes
v.intr.
1.
a. To draw in and exhale smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe: It's forbidden to smoke here.
b. To engage in smoking regularly or habitually: He smoked for years before stopping.
2. To emit smoke or a smokelike substance: chimneys smoking in the cold air.
3. To emit smoke excessively: The station wagon smoked even after the tune-up.
4. Slang
a. To go or proceed at high speed.
b. To play or perform energetically: The band was really smoking in the second set.
v.tr.
Phrasal Verb: 1.
a. To draw in and exhale the smoke of (tobacco, for example): I've never smoked a panatela.
b. To do so regularly or habitually: I used to smoke filtered cigarettes.
2. To preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to the aromatic smoke of burning hardwood, usually after pickling in salt or brine.
3.
a. To fumigate (a house, for example).
b. To expose (animals, especially insects) to smoke in order to immobilize or drive away.
4. To expose (glass) to smoke in order to darken or change its color.
5. Slang
a. To kill; murder.
b. To defeat decisively, as in a competition.
6. Baseball To throw (a pitch) at high velocity.
smoke out
Idioms: 1. To force out of a place of hiding or concealment by or as if by the use of smoke.
2. To detect and bring to public view; expose or reveal: smoke out a scandal.
go up in smoke
1. To be destroyed by fire.
2. To experience complete failure in an attempt to do or achieve something: Our plans to open a bakery went up in smoke when we were unable to secure funding.
smoke and mirrors
Something that deceives or distorts the truth: Your explanation is nothing but smoke and mirrors.
[Middle English, from Old English smoca.]
smok′a·ble, smoke′a·ble adj.
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smoked
(sməʊkt)adj
1. (Cookery) cookery (of meat, fish, cheese, etc) cured by treating with smoke
2. (Ceramics) darkened or tinted by exposure to smoke
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smoked
[sməʊkt] ADJ [bacon, fish, cheese] → ahumadosmoked glass → cristal m or (LAm) vidrio m ahumado
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smoke
(sməuk) noun1. the cloudlike gases and particles of soot given off by something which is burning. Smoke was coming out of the chimney; He puffed cigarette smoke into my face.humo
2. an act of smoking (a cigarette etc). I came outside for a smoke.cigarrillo, acción de fumar
verb1. to give off smoke. fumar
2. to draw in and puff out the smoke from (a cigarette etc). I don't smoke, but he smokes cigars.fumar
3. to dry, cure, preserve (ham, fish etc) by hanging it in smoke. ahumar
smoked adjective treated with smoke. smoked cheese.ahumado
ˈsmokeless adjective1. allowing no smoke. Our part of the town is a smokeless zone. libre de humos
2. burning without smoke. smokeless fuel. sin humo
ˈsmoker nounˈsmoking noun the habit of smoking cigarettes etc. He has given up cigarette-smoking at last; Smoking can damage your health.fumar
ˈsmoky adjective1. filled with, or giving out (too much) smoke. The atmosphere in the room was thick and smoky. lleno/cargado de humo
2. like smoke in appearance etc. humeante
ˈsmokiness
nounsmoke detector
a device in a building which sounds a fire alarm when smoke passes through it. detector de humo
ˈsmokescreen noun1. a cloud of smoke used to conceal the movements of troops etc. cortina de humo
2. something intended to conceal one's activities etc. cortina de humo
go up in smoke1. to be completely destroyed by fire. The whole house went up in smoke. hacerse humo/cenizas, ser consumido por las llamas
2. to vanish very quickly leaving nothing behind. All his plans have gone up in smoke.esfumarse, fracasar, venir abajo, malograrse
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smoked
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