Smoke Screen

Definition: Smoke Screen

Smoke Screen

Noun

1. (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Military

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Crosswords: Smoke Screen

Smoke Screen (1957)

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Books

• Smoke Screen (Ag Fiction (American Girl)) (reference)

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Ships in Kerama Retto anchorage spread an anti-kamikaze smoke screen, 3 May 1945, seen from USS Sargent Bay (CVE-83). TBM and FM-2 aircraft are on her flight deck. Ship in left center is USS Pinkney (APH-2), which had been damaged by a Kamikaze on 28 April. Photographed by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Oliver E. Pfeiffer. Credit: NAVY.

Smoke rises from two enemy planes shot down during a Japanese air attack on U.S. ships off Guadalcanal, 12 November 1942. Photographed from USS President Adams (AP-38). Ship at right is USS Betelgeuse (AK-28). That at left, barely visible beyond President Adams' structure, is USS Libra (AK-53). Smoke in the center distance appears to be a smoke screen. Credit: NAVY.

A U.S. Navy destroyer lays a smoke screen during a "Red Alert" for air attack, off the Salerno invasion beaches in September 1943. Photographed from the port bridge wing of USS Philadelphia (CL-41). Note manned and ready 20mm and 40mm guns on Philadelphia and elevated fire control radar antenna and 5"/38 guns on the destroyer. Credit: NAVY.

USS Philadelphia (CL-41) and a motor minesweeper (YMS) making a smoke screen to cover the landing area from German air attack, circa 9 September 1943. Credit: NAVY.

Steams through an aircraft-deployed smoke screen, 26 February 1929, shortly after that year's "Fleet Problem" exercises. Credit: NAVY.

Laying a smoke screen during exercises, circa 1920-1921. Photographed by O.W. Waterman. Note that the ship's guns, torpedo tubes and rangefinder are manned and trained on targets. Credit: NAVY.

U.S. Navy minelayers steaming in column in the North Sea, September 1918. At left, British destroyers are covering the formation's flank with a smoke screen. Ships in the minelayer column are (from front to rear): Roanoke, Housatonic, Quinnebaug and Baltimore. Credit: NAVY.

The smoke screen. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. troops in training on Italian front: advancing through a smoke screen. Credit: Library of Congress.

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Soliders walking through a smoke screen. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expression using "smoke screen": cover up with a smoke screen. Additional references.

Albanian

perde tymi (haze). (various references)

Arabic 

‏الستار الدخاني لحجب نشاطات عسكرية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

димна завеса (smoke-cloud). (various references)

Czech

kouřová clona. (various references)

Dutch

afleidingsmanoeuvre (diversion, red herring). (various references)

Esperanto

deturna manovro (diversion, red herring). (various references)

Finnish

savuverho (smoke-screen). (various references)

French

rideau de fumée, écran de fumée. (various references)

German

vernebelt (covered by a smoke screen), vernebeln (befog, cover by a smoke screen, cover up with a smoke screen, fug up, obfuscate, obscure). (various references)

Greek 

προπέτασμα καπνού. (various references)

Hebrew 

מסך עשן. (various references)

Italian

cortina fumogena. (various references)

Pig Latin

okesmay eenscray

Romanian

perdea de fum (screen). (various references)

Russian 

дымовая завеса (smoke-cloud). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dimna zavesa (smoke-cloud). (various references)

Swedish

rökridå. (various references)

Turkish

yapay sis, kamuflaj dumanı, esrar perdesi. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: smokescreen.

-2 letters: kerosenes.

-3 letters: kermeses, kermesse, kerosene, meekness, necroses.

-4 letters: censers, censors, conkers, creeses, encores, essence, keeners, kermess, mockers, moreens, neckers, necrose, nemeses, reckons, reseeks, screens, secerns, seekers, seemers, senores, serenes, sermons, smokers, sockmen, sokemen.

-5 letters: censer, censes, censor, comers, conker, corses, creeks, creese, cremes, crones, crosse, emcees, emeers, emeses, encore, eroses, eskers, keener, kermes, kernes.

+1 letter: smokescreens.

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