SMOKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smoke mean? 

• SMOKE (noun)
  The noun SMOKE has 8 senses:

1. a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

2. a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion

3. an indication of some hidden activity

4. something with no concrete substance

5. tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder

6. street names for marijuana

7. the act of smoking tobacco or other substances

8. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

  Familiarity information: SMOKE used as a noun is common.

• SMOKE (verb)
  The verb SMOKE has 2 senses:

1. inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes

2. emit a cloud of fine particles

  Familiarity information: SMOKE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMOKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

fume; smoke

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

aerosol (a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smoke"):

gun smoke (smoke created by the firing of guns)

smother (a stifling cloud of smoke)

Derivation:

smoke (emit a cloud of fine particles)

smoky (marked by or emitting or filled with smoke)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

smoke; smoking

Context example:

the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

evaporation; vapor; vaporisation; vaporization; vapour (the process of becoming a vapor)

Derivation:

smoke (emit a cloud of fine particles)

smoky (marked by or emitting or filled with smoke)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An indication of some hidden activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

indicant; indication (something that serves to indicate or suggest)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Something with no concrete substance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

it was just smoke and mirrors

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

insubstantiality (lacking substance or reality)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

roll of tobacco; smoke

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

baccy; tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smoke"):

cigar (a roll of tobacco for smoking)

butt; cigaret; cigarette; coffin nail; fag (finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking)

Derivation:

smoke (inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Street names for marijuana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dope; gage; grass; green goddess; locoweed; Mary Jane; pot; sens; sess; skunk; smoke; weed

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

cannabis; ganja; marihuana; marijuana (the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect)

Derivation:

smoke (inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The act of smoking tobacco or other substances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

smoke; smoking

Context example:

smoking stinks

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

breathing; external respiration; respiration; ventilation (the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation)

Meronyms (parts of "smoke"):

drag; puff; pull (a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smoke"):

puffing (blowing tobacco smoke out into the air)

Derivation:

smoke (inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes)

Sense 8

Meaning:

(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bullet; fastball; heater; hummer; smoke

Context example:

he showed batters nothing but smoke

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

delivery; pitch ((baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smoke"):

slider (a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown)

• SMOKE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they smoke    ... he / she / it smokes   
Past simple: smoked   
Past participle: smoked   
-ing form: smoking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Context example:

Do you smoke?

Hypernyms (to "smoke" is one way to...):

habituate; use (take or consume (regularly or habitually))

"Smoke" entails doing...:

breathe out; exhale; expire (expel air)

breathe in; inhale; inspire (draw in (air))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "smoke"):

chain-smoke (smoke one cigarette after another; light one cigarette from the preceding one)

puff; whiff (smoke and exhale strongly)

inhale (draw deep into the lungs in by breathing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

smoke (the act of smoking tobacco or other substances)

smoke (street names for marijuana)

smoke (tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder)

smoker (a person who smokes tobacco)

smoking (the act of smoking tobacco or other substances)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Emit a cloud of fine particles

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

fume; smoke

Context example:

The chimney was fuming

Hypernyms (to "smoke" is one way to...):

emit; give off; give out (give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

smoke (a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas)

smoke; smoking (a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion)

 Context examples 

"With dark narrow stairs and a kitchen that smokes, I suppose," said Elinor.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He swears, he smokes, he drinks, he has fought with his fists (he has told me so, and he likes it; he says so).

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He drew in the smoke of his cigarette as if the soothing influence was grateful to him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I should not have been surprised if the wet black beard had frizzled and curled and flared up in smoke and flame.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We sat down on a bench within good view, and began to smoke cigars so as to attract as little attention as possible.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mr. Peggotty had smoked his evening pipe and there were preparations for some supper by and by.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I should not sit here smoking with you if I thought that you were a common criminal, you may be sure of that.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were stark naked, men, women, and children, round a fire, as I could discover by the smoke.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)