smoke

smoke
    n 1: a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas [syn: {smoke},
         {fume}]
    2: 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" [syn: {smoke}, {smoking}]
    3: an indication of some hidden activity; "with all that smoke
       there must be a fire somewhere"
    4: something with no concrete substance; "his dreams all turned
       to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors"
    5: tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder [syn:
       {roll of tobacco}, {smoke}]
    6: street names for marijuana [syn: {pot}, {grass}, {green
       goddess}, {dope}, {weed}, {gage}, {sess}, {sens}, {smoke},
       {skunk}, {locoweed}, {Mary Jane}]
    7: the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went
       outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks" [syn: {smoke},
       {smoking}]
    8: (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung
       late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke"
       [syn: {fastball}, {heater}, {smoke}, {hummer}, {bullet}]
    v 1: inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We
         never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?"
    2: emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming"
       [syn: {fume}, {smoke}]
    

Smoke \Smoke\ (sm[=o]k), n. [AS. smoca, fr. sme['o]can to smoke;
   akin to LG. & D. smook smoke, Dan. sm["o]g, G. schmauch, and
   perh. to Gr. ??? to burn in a smoldering fire; cf. Lith.
   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.
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   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.
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   2. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
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   3. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. --Shak.
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   4. The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a
      smoke. [Colloq.]
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   Note: Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. forming
         self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming,
         smoke-dried, smoke-stained, etc.
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   {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.
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   Syn: Fume; reek; vapor.
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Smoke \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.
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   2. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense;
      to perfume. "Smoking the temple." --Chaucer.
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   3. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
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            I alone
            Smoked his true person, talked with him. --Chapman.
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            He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. --Shak.
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            Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a
            parcel of mummers.                    --Addison.
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   4. To ridicule to the face; to quiz. [Old Slang]
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   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.
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   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.
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Smoke \Smoke\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Smoked}; p. pr. & vb n.
   {Smoking}.] [AS. smocian; akin to D. smoken, G. schmauchen,
   Dan. sm["o]ge. See {Smoke}, n.]
   1. To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of
      vapor or exhalation; to reek.
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            Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.     --Milton.
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   2. Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
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            The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke
            agains. that man.                     --Deut. xxix.
                                                  20.
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   3. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
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            Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   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.
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   5. To suffer severely; to be punished.
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            Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. --Shak.
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smoke
 vi.

   1. To {crash} or blow up, usually spectacularly. "The new version
   smoked, just like the last one." Used for both hardware (where it
   often describes an actual physical event), and software (where it's
   merely colorful).

   2. [from automotive slang] To be conspicuously fast. "That processor
   really smokes." Compare {magic smoke}.
    

smoke

   1. To {crash} or blow up, usually spectacularly. "The new
   version smoked, just like the last one."  Used for both
   hardware (where it often describes an actual physical event),
   and software (where it's merely colourful).

   2. [Automotive slang] To be conspicuously fast.  "That
   processor really smokes."  Compare {magic smoke}.

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285 Moby Thesaurus words for "smoke":
      aerate, aerify, afterdamp, air, air-dry, airy nothing, anhydrate,
      ash, ashes, atomize, attaint, bake, be livid, be pissed, becloud,
      bedarken, bedaub, befog, begrime, bemire, bemist, bemud, besmear,
      besmirch, besmoke, bestain, black, blackdamp, blacken, blackwash,
      blast-freeze, blot, blotch, blow, blur, bluster, boil, brand,
      breath, breathe out, brine, browned off, brush, bubble, bucket,
      bullet, burn, butt, calx, carbon, carbonate, carry on, chafe,
      chain-smoke, charcoal, chaw, chew, chewing, chlorinate, chokedamp,
      cinder, clabber up, clinker, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, coal,
      coke, coom, cork, corn, crow, cure, damp, darken, darken over,
      daub, dehumidify, dehydrate, denigrate, desiccate, dinge, dirt,
      dirty, dirty up, discolor, distill, drag, drain, draw, dross, dry,
      dry-cure, dry-salt, dust, ebon, ebonize, ebony, effluvium, embalm,
      emit, encloud, enmist, ephemera, ephemeral, ephemerid, ephemerides,
      ephemeris, ether, etherify, etherize, evacuate, evaporate,
      exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expire, exsiccate, fag, fetid air,
      fire, firedamp, flatus, fluid, fluidize, fly, fog, fractionate,
      freeze, freeze-dry, fret, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off,
      give out, give vent to, go on, grime, habitual smoking, hasten,
      have a conniption, haze, hydrogenate, illusion, inhale,
      inhale snuff, ink, insolate, irradiate, jerk, jet, kiln, kipper,
      lava, let out, malaria, marinade, marinate, mark, mayfly, melanize,
      mephitis, miasma, mire, mist, muck, muck up, muddy, mummify, murk,
      nicotine addiction, nicotinism, night, nigrify, nubilate,
      obnubilate, obscure, open the floodgates, open the sluices,
      overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, oxygenate, parch,
      perfume, phantom, pickle, pissed off, pitch, preservatize, puff,
      puff of smoke, pull, quick-freeze, rage, raise Cain, raise hell,
      raise the devil, raise the roof, rant, rant and rave, rave, raven,
      reek, refrigerate, rub, run, rush, salt, scorch, scoria, sear,
      season, seethe, send out, shade, shadow, shrivel, simmer, singe,
      sizzle, slag, slime, sloe, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smog,
      smoke-cure, smokes, smoking, smoking habit, smokings, smolder,
      smudge, smut, smutch, snows of yesteryear, soak up, soil, soot,
      speed, spirit, sponge, spray, stain, steam, stew, stigmatize,
      storm, stuff, sublimate, sublime, sullage, sun, sun-dry, swab,
      tabacism, tabacosis, tabagism, taint, take on, take snuff, tar,
      tarnish, thin air, throw a fit, throw off, tobaccoism, torrefy,
      towel, vapor, vaporize, volatile, volatilize, water vapor, weazen,
      whiz, wipe, wither, wizen, zip