smoke Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Smoke noun
Etymology
AS. smoca, fr. smeócan to smoke; akin to LG. & D. smook smoke, Dan. smög, G. schmauch, and perh. to Gr. to burn in a smoldering fire; cf. Lith. smaugti to choke.
Definitions
  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. ✍ 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. ✍ Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. forming self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming, smoke-dried, smoke-stained, etc. Syn. -- Fume; reek; vapor.
Smoke intransitive verb
Etymology
AS. smocian; akin to D. smoken, G. schmauchen, Dan. smöge. See Smoke, n.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Smoked ; present participle & verbal noun Smoking
Definitions
  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.
    To be smoking, (a) [Colloq] (Entertainment, sports) To perform in an exciting manner. (b) (Gambling) To be winning in a long streak
Smoke transitive verb
Definitions
  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. also used metaphorically, to expose, to cause to be made public; to drive out, as if by smoke.

Webster 1913