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Definition: Smoking |
SmokingAdjective1. Emitting smoke in great volume; "a smoking fireplace". Noun1. The act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks". 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "smoking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | The use of wood smoke as a preservation process, for meat, fish. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | Use of tobacco, the smoking habit. Source: European Union. (references) |
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- For information about smoking tobacco, see tobacco smoking.
- For information about other substances that can be smoked, see cannabis, hashish, or cocaine.
- For information about curing meat, see smoking (food)
- For information about the film Smoking by Alain Resnais, see Smoking (movie)
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Smoking is the process of curing, cooking, or seasoning food by exposing it for long periods of time to the smoke from a (usually wood) fire. "Hot smoking" is typically a several-hours-long process that can be used to fully cook raw meats or fish, while "cold-smoking" is an hours- or days-long process that is generally used to preserve or flavor foods (usually meats or fish, but sometimes cheeses, vegetables, fruits, and even beer).The fuel used for smoking may contain flavoring adjuncts. For example, Chinese tea-smoking uses a mixture of uncooked rice, raw sugar, and tea, heated at the base of a wok, to slowly smoke and flavor meat and other foods. Hickory and mesquite wood are commonly used for smoking.
See also: Food preservation, curing
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Smoking (food)."
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Tobacco smoking is the practice of drawing tobacco smoke into the mouth. In the case of cigarette smoking, it also involves the inhaling of tobacco smoke. Tobacco smoke contains nicotine, which is highly addictive when inhaled. Nicotine is one of thousands of chemicals contained in cigarette smoke. The most widespread form of tobacco smoking is smoking of cigarettes, followed by pipe smoking and cigar smoking.Lighting a cigarette etc. is done with a lighter or match. One of the most common favors asked from a stranger is for a light; it is also used to get into contact with someone.
History
Tobacco smoking, using both pipes and cigars, was long common to many Native American cultures of the Americas. It is depicted in the art of the Classic era Maya civilization of some 1500 years ago.With the arrival of the Europeans in the New World late in the 15th century, tobacco smoking was brought to Europe, and from there gradually spread to the rest of the world.
The cigarette was less common than the cigar or the smoking pipe until the early 20th century, when cheap mechanically made cigarettes became common.
Health effects
It has been scientifically established that "tobacco use is the single most important preventable risk to human health in developed countries and an important cause of premature death worldwide."1
The most important are lung cancer and other cancers of the respiratory tract. Cancers of the larynx and tongue are also important causes of mortality and morbidity.
There are around 3000 chemicals found in tobacco smoke. Below are chemicals of known or supected carcinogenicity. The classification reflects the fact that there are no direct data on humans :The length of time that a person continues to smoke as well as the amount smoked increases their chances of contracting lung cancer. However, if someone stops smoking, then these chances steadily decrease as the damage to their lungs is repaired.
- Carcinogenic
- 4-Aminobiphenyl
- Benzene
- Cadmium
- Chromium
- 2-Naphthylamine
- Nickel
- Polonium-210
- Radon
- Vinyl chloride
- Probably carcinogenic to humans
- Acrylonitrile
- Benzo[a]anthracene
- Benzo[α]pyrene
- 1,3-Butadiene
- Dibenz(a,h)anthracene
- Formaldehyde
- N-Nitrosodiethylamine
- N-Nitrosodimethylamine
- Possibly carcinogenic to humans
- Acetaldehyde
- Benzo[b]fluoranthene
- Benzo[j]fluoranthene
- Benzo[k]fluoranthene
- Dibenz[a,h]acridine
- Dibenz[a,j]acridine
- 7H-Dibenz[c,g]carbazole
- Dibenzo(a,i)pyrene
- Dibenzo(a,I)pyrene
- 1,1-Dimethylhydrazine
- Hydrazine
- Indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene
- Lead
- 5-Methylchrysene
- 4-(Methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK)
- 2-Nitropropane
- N-Nitrosodiethanolamine
- N-Nitrosomethylethylamine
- N-Nitrosomorpholine
- N'-Nitrosonornicotine (NNN)
- N-Nitrosopyrrolidine
- Quinoline
- iv ortho-Toluidine
- Urethane (Ethyl Carbamate)
Smoking also increases the chance of heart disease. Several ingredients of tobacco lead to the narrowing of blood vessels, increasing the likelihood of a block, and thus a heart attack. Other tobacco chemicals lead to high blood pressure. Also, some chemicals damage the inside of arteries, for example making it possible for cholesterol to adhere to the artery wall, possibly leading to a heart attack.
Diseases linked to tobacco smoking:
Nicotine is a powerful stimulant and is one of the main factors leading to the addictiveness of tobacco smoking. Although the amount of nicotine inhaled with tobacco smoke is quite small (most of the substance is destroyed by the heat) it is still sufficient to cause addiction. The amount of nicotine absorbed by the body from smoking depends on many factors, including the type of tobacco, whether the smoke is inhaled, and whether a filter is used. On average it takes about seven seconds for the substance to reach the brain.
- lung cancer and other cancers
- emphysema
- stroke
- peripheral vascular disease
- birth defects
- Buerger's disease
- impotence
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic bronchitis in particular
Many of the health effects can be avoided through Smoking cessation.
Legal aspects
"Passive smoking" or "secondhand smoke" - also known as "environmental tobacco smoke" (ETS) or "involuntary smoking" - occurs when the smoke from one person's cigarette is inhaled by other people. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1993 issued a report estimating that 3,000 lung-cancer related deaths in the US were caused by passive smoking every year. Lobbyists and researchers supported by the tobacco industry aggressively attacked the EPA study as "junk science," but subsequent research has generally supported its conclusions. In 2002, a group of 29 experts from 12 countries convened by the Monographs Programme of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization reviewed all significant published evidence related to tobacco smoking and cancer. It concluded its evaluation of the carcinogenic risks associated with involuntary smoking, with second-hand smoke also being classified as carcinogenic to humans.[1] An earlier WHO epidemiology study also found "weak evidence of a dose-response relationship between risk of lung cancer and exposure to spousal and workplace ETS."[1] The fact that the evidence was described as "weak" has been interpreted by the tobacco industry and its supporters as evidence that the ETS-lung cancer link has been "disproven." In reality, the "weakness" of the evidence stems from the fact that the risk of ETS for individuals is relatively small, making it difficult to detect through epidemiology. In addition to epidemiology, however, several other types of scientific evidence (including animal experiments, chemical constituent analysis of ETS, and human metabolic studies) support the WHO and EPA conclusions.
Smoking continues to be a major problem because of smokers' addiction to the nicotine in tobacco smoke, and the vigorous marketing of cigarettes by the tobacco industry. Several western countries have put restrictions on cigarette advertising, particularly on advertising that appears to target minors..
In many countries smoking in public buildings is now prohibited. Many office buildings (are required by law to) contain specially ventilated smoking areas.
In the United States and New Zealand, it has long been illegal to sell tobacco products to minors.
See also other forms of tobacco use :
- Chewing tobacco
- Snuff
References:
- Joint Committee on Smoking and Health. Smoking and health: physician responsibility; a statement of the Joint Committee on Smoking and Health. Chest 1995; 198:201- 208
- Boffetta,P., Agudo,A., Ahrens,W., Benhamou,E., Benhamou,S., Darby,S.C., Ferro,G., Fortes,C., Gonzalez,C.A., Jockel,K.H., Krauss,M., Kreienbrock,L., Kreuzer,M., Mendes,A., Merletti,F., Nyberg,F., Pershagen,G., Pohlabeln,H., Riboli,E., Schmid,G., Simonato,L., Tredaniel,J., Whitley,E., Wichmann,H.E., Saracci,R. 1998. Multicenter case-control study of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer in Europe. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 90:1440-1450.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tobacco smoking."
Synonym: SmokingSynonym: smoke (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heat | Red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning. Verb: hot, piping hot; like a furnace, like an oven; burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg. |
Fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling. Verb: in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool. | |
Receptacle | Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement. |
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Screenplays | Well, I see your smoking pot now. I think the use of a sub-controlled drug is a very positive example to set for our daughter (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) We're still alive 'cause we're smoking. (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez) Oh, sure, if it weren't for the smoking, and the verbal diarrhea (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) My smoking doesn't go over at all. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) There's no smoking in this building, Ms. Tramell (Basic Instinct; writing credit: Joe Eszterhas) | |
Lyrics | You've heard me saying that smoking was my only vice (Lay All Your Love On Me; performing artist: Abba) Sweet leaf dreamer you been smoking up the ganja (Just Push Play; performing artist: Aerosmith) I hope the Smoking Man's in this one (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) I'm quitting cigarette smoking (But Anyway; performing artist: Blues Traveler) Sitting smoking feeling high (Crush; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) | |
Clever | To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times. (references; author: Mark Twain) 1968: Popping pills, smoking joints. 1998: Popping joints. (references; author: unknown) How would you like to spend eternity: smoking or non-smoking? (references; author: unknown) Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there? (references; author: unknown) Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Moving Indian Movie Star I Am an Old Smoking (1969) Let's Discuss Smoking (1964) Smuglere i smoking (1957) No Smoking (1955) | |
Song Titles | Smoking Like A Ray Gun (performing artist: The John Ewing Band) Smoking (performing artist: Wally Pleasant) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A black woman is seated on a park bench, smoking in a wooded area. Smoke is being exhaled. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Pictured is a older white man in a pin-striped red shirt in an office setting. He is showing the effects of smoking, on a long-term basis. His skin is wrinkled and his complexion pallid. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Arthur Godfrey, popular entertainer and smoker who later died of lung cancer, touts Chesterfield cigarettes as safe and "best for me." Tobacco, smoking. Credit: CDC. |  | Smoking might look cool in the movies, but in real life it stinks!. Credit: CDC. |
 | Cornelius D. Meaney and the "Belle of Samar" in cigar smoking contest Looks like she's the winner. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | [Health education: smoking and hypertension] / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud.. |
 | [Opium smoking party]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | LCVP landing craft circle while awaiting landing orders, during the invasion of Cape Torokina, Bougainville, 1 November 1943. Photographed by PFC P. Scheer from a 20mm gun position on board USS American Legion (APA-17). The invasion beaches are in the background, being shelled, and there are planes over the beaches. The smoking volcano in the far center distance is Mount Bagana. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Interior of the wet slips, with USS Lardner (Destroyer # 286, builder's Hull # 366) fitting out at right. Further to the right, with smokestacks barely visible behind the building framework, is USS Putnam (Destroyer # 287, builder's Hull # 367), which is also fitting out. Note barrels, mountings, shields and base rings for 4"/50 guns, in the foreground, and warning signs. The largest of the latter, at right, forbids smoking due to the presence of fuel oil. Smaller signs state: "Coal Shortage" "Every leak in air lines Means Waste of Coal". Some of the material present is marked for Hull 370 (USS Dale, Destroyer # 290). Photograph probably taken circa 18 November 1919. Credit: NAVY. |  | Smoking him out. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Smoking" by Tijs Gerritsen Commentary: "An old man enjoying a big fine Cuban cigar, sitting on a bench, somewhere in Cuba." | "Bowness Park" by Megan McLean Commentary: "A picture of two men sitting by the water at bowness park. They are smoking something too, if you can see it." |
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Fletcher Knebel | It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. |
Samuel Johnson | Smoking is a shocking thing -- blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Jondrette had lighted his pipe, sat down on the dismantled chair, and was smoking. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Two boys were standing in the shelter of a doorway, smoking, and before he reached them he had recognised Heron by his voice |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Muley met them near the smoking dust pile which had been their fire |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Smoking cigarettes also can trigger seizures. (references) | |
This includes smoking, alcohol, and loud noise. (references) | ||
A physician can also help patients to stop smoking. (references) | ||
Business | Over the years, one out of every ten women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 39 persons in 1000 will develop lung cancer (with more women now smoking, the 4/1 male/female ratio is beginning to decrease). (references) | |
The oral health of the Australian population is influenced by age, exposure to fluorides, dietary patterns, preventive dental behaviors, smoking, alcohol consumption, stress, infection and immunity, access to and use of preventive and dental restorative services, and attitudes toward treatment preferences. (references) | ||
Economic History | Pakistan | Despite government campaigns to reduce smoking, sales are expected to increase during 2001-02. (references) |
Turkey | As Turkish smoking tastes change from traditional oriental blend cigarettes to American blends, consumption and imports of non-oriental tobaccos have increased. (references) | |
Pakistan | About half of the total production is used for cigarette manufacturing and the remainder used in traditional ways of smoking ( i.e in hand-rolled cigarettes called "birris", in water pipes, and as snuff). (references) | |
Human Rights | Cuba | He suffered from bronchiectasis as a result of smoking. (references) |
Cameroon | The Operational Command also used neighborhood sweeps to search for criminals, occasionally executing suspects for minor offenses such as smoking marijuana. (references) | |
Egypt | The Government has renovated and built several prisons in recent years, and attempted to improve health conditions by, for example, banning smoking; however, human rights groups report that overcrowding and unhealthy conditions continue. (references) | |
Trade | El Salvador | G. Opium with less than nine % morphine, scraps and opium ash, and any material used for smoking those products. (references) |
Armenia | These restrictions include required authorization for weapons, components used in the production of weapons, explosives, nuclear materials, poison, narcotics, strong psychotropic substances, devices for use in opium smoking, and pornographic materials. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Russia | Workers wear little protective equipment in factories, enterprises store hazardous materials in open areas, and smoking is permitted near containers of flammable substances. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes." |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Ann Richards | I know that my alcoholism affected osteoporosis. And I was also a smoker. Smoking is very bad for your bones. So absolutely it is a factor in my osteoporosis. |
Rosemary Clooney | When you quit smoking, I said to myself, I can't do this. I can never do this. Because I enjoy it too much. I gave up pills. Booze is kind of gone, not altogether, but I can't do this. I can't give up smoking. Well, I did. |
Rush Limbaugh | The government isn't serious about stopping smoking. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Let's do what it takes to bring teen smoking down. |
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| "Smoking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 72.71% of the time. "Smoking" is used about 1,676 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 72.71% | 1,219 | 6,391 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.62% | 195 | 21,939 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.63% | 128 | 28,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.57% | 127 | 28,395 |
| Noun (common) | 0.48% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,676 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "smoking": Action on Smoking and Health ♦ ban on smoking ♦ cut out smoking ♦ give up smoking ♦ hashish smoking ♦ his main vice is smoking ♦ i have done with smoking ♦ knock off smoking ♦ lay off smoking ♦ Marijuana Smoking ♦ no smoking ♦ no smoking area ♦ pipe for smoking ♦ quit smoking ♦ smoking addict ♦ smoking area ♦ smoking bean ♦ smoking break ♦ smoking car ♦ smoking carriage ♦ Smoking Cessation ♦ smoking clover ♦ smoking compartment ♦ smoking curing ♦ smoking duck ♦ smoking jacket ♦ smoking mixture ♦ smoking of food ♦ smoking opium ♦ smoking pipe ♦ smoking room ♦ smoking section ♦ spend on smoking ♦ stop smoking. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "smoking": smoking-carriage, smoking-house, smoking-induced, smoking-jacket, smoking-related, smoking-room. | |
Ending with "smoking": anti-smoking, chain-smoking, dope-smoking, non-smoking, no-smoking, pipe-smoking, pot-smoking, still-smoking. | |
Containing "smoking": non-smoking section. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
the smoking gun | 8,532 | meat smoking | 238 |
smoking | 4,583 | smoking glamour | 228 |
quit smoking | 2,084 | smoking celeb | 226 |
smoking fetish | 1,927 | celebrity smoking | 223 |
stop smoking | 1,558 | smoking ban | 208 |
smoking pipe | 970 | smoking sex | 198 |
smoking from all side | 743 | smoking accessory | 191 |
effects of smoking | 630 | smoking jacket | 189 |
cigar smoking | 618 | smoking fact | 183 |
gun.com smoking | 561 | quit smoking help | 161 |
smoking cessation | 473 | smoking pregnancy | 157 |
quitting smoking | 436 | britney smoking spears | 152 |
girl smoking | 366 | anti smoking | 143 |
smoking woman | 354 | female celebrity smoking list | 141 |
no smoking sign | 304 | side smoking | 134 |
tobacco smoking | 277 | smoking statistics | 134 |
cigarette smoking | 274 | smoking fetish links | 134 |
no smoking | 262 | smoking list | 131 |
teen smoking | 255 | smoking pic post | 126 |
smoking picture | 240 | lock stock two smoking barrels | 121 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "smoking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tymosje (fumigation), pirje duhani. (various references) | |
Arabic | تدخين (fumigation, tobacco), تبغ (tobacco, weed). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пушене (smoke), димене. (various references) | |
Chinese | 抽烟, 冒煙 . (various references) | |
Czech | kouření. (various references) | |
Danish | tobaksforgiftning, rygning (fumigation, ridge), roegning, røgning (fumigation). (various references) | |
Dutch | roken (smoke). (various references) | |
Finnish | savustus, savustaminen, tupakointi, tupakanpoltto. (various references) | |
French | tabagisme. (various references) | |
German | rauchen (fume, give off smoke, smoke, to fume, to smoke), rauchend (fuming, reeking, smoky), Räuchern (burn incense, cure, smoke). (various references) | |
Greek | κάπνισμα (smoking habit). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עשון (fumigation, smoking of food, smoky). (various references) | |
Hungarian | dohányzás (smoke). (various references) | |
Indonesian | merokok. (various references) | |
Italian | tabagismo, fumoso (obscure, smokily, smoky), fumo (fume, pother, smoke, steam), fumare (fume, reek, smoke, steam, to smoke), fumante, affunicamento, affumicatura, affumicare (blacken with smoke, cure, fill with smoke, kipper, smoke), affumicamento (fumigation). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 喫煙 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きつえん, くんせい (smoked, smoked foods), くんじょう (fumigation). (various references) | |
Korean | 연기가 남. (various references) | |
Manx | toghtaney (fumigation, smoke), thombaacey (the weed), jaaghey (fumes, fumigate, fumigation, smoke), jaaghagh (smoky), cur jaagh (smoke), as jaagh cheet jeh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | okingsmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tabagismo, fumeiro (flue), fumar (fume, puff, reek, smoke, to smoke), fumagem, fumador, defumação (curing), ato de fumar. (various references) | |
Romanian | fumegos (steaming), fumãtor (smoker), afumare (smoked). (various references) | |
Russian | курение (smoke), копчение, дымить;курить курение курящий. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pušenje (blow), koji (acquiescent, that, what, which, who), dimljenje. (various references) | |
Spanish | fumar (smoke, to smoke). (various references) | |
Swedish | rökning (cure, fumigation), rökande. (various references) | |
Turkish | sigara içme (smoke), sigara içilen, sigara içen, tütme (giving out smoke, reek, smoke), tüten (Reeky, smoky), duman çıkaran (smoky). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | коптіння, паління (smoke). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thuốc lá rời trộn (smoking-mixture). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fumigabunda. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 15, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Epei de egineto o hlioV proV dusmaiV flox egeneto kai idou klibanoV kapnizomenoV kai lampadeV puroV ai dihlqon ana meson twn dicotomhmatwn toutwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cum ergo occubuisset sol facta est caligo tenebrosa et apparuit clibanus fumans et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ða ða sunne eode to setle, ða sloh ðær mycel mist, ond ferde swylce an ofen eal smociende, ond leohtberende fyr ferde ofer ða lac. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne whan the sunne is gon down, there was maad a derk clowd, and a furneys smekynge aperyde, and a lawmpe of fijr, passynge bitwix tho dyuysiouns. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When the sonne was doune and it was waxed darke: beholde there was a smokynge furnesse and a fyre brand that went betwene the sayde peces. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And it came to pass, that when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 15, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | Ug nahitabo nga sa pagkasalop na sa adlaw ug mangitngit na, tan-awa, usa ka hudno nga nag-aso ug usa ka sulo nga kalayo, nga miagi sa taliwala sa mga mananap nga pinikas. |
| Chinese | 日 落 天 黑 、 不 料 有 冒 煙 的 爐 、 並 燒 著 的 火 把 、 從 那 些 肉 塊 中 經 過 。 |
| Croatian | Kad je sunce zašlo i pao gust mrak, pojavi se zadimljen žeravnjak i goruæa zublja te proðu izmeðu onih dijelova. |
| Danish | Da Solen var gået ned og Mørket faldet på, viste der sig en rygende Ovn med en flammende Ildslue, der skred frem mellem de sønderskårne Kroppe. |
| Dutch | En het geschiedde, dat de zon onderging en het duister werd, en ziet, daar was een rokende oven en vurige fakkel, die tussen die stukken doorging. |
| Finnish | Ja kun aurinko oli laskenut ja oli tullut pilkkopimeä, näkyi suitsuava pätsi ja liekehtivä tuli, joka liikkui uhrikappaleiden välissä. |
| French | Quand le soleil fut couché, il y eut une obscurité profonde; et voici, ce fut une fournaise fumante, et des flammes passèrent entre les animaux partagés. |
| German | Als nun die Sonne untergegangen und es finster geworden war, siehe, da rauchte ein Ofen, und ein Feuerflamme fuhr zwischen den Stücken hin. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Apre solèy fin kouche, te fè nwa anpil. Epi men li, yon recho ki t'ap fè lafimen ansanm ak yon gwo bwa dife tout limen parèt. Yo pase nan mitan moso vyann bèt yo. |
| Hungarian | És mikor a nap leméne és setétség lõn, ímé egy füstölgõ kemencze, és tüzes fáklya, mely általmegyen vala a húsdarabok között. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ketika hari sudah malam, tiba-tiba muncul sebuah anglo yang berasap dan obor yang menyala, lalu lewat di antara potongan-potongan daging itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hata, setelah sudah masuk matahari dan malampun telah sampai, sesungguhnya adalah di sana sebuah dapur yang berasap dan sepucuk damar yang bernyala-nyala itu melintas ditengah-tengah segala penggal itu. |
| Italian | Quando, tramontato il sole, si era fatto buio fitto, ecco un forno fumante e una fiaccola ardente passarono in mezzo agli animali divisi. |
| Maori | ¶ Na i te tonga o te ra, no ka pouri, na, ko te oumu paowa, me te rama e ka ana, e tika ana i waenganui o aua porohanga. |
| Norwegian | Da nu solen var gått ned, og det var blitt aldeles mørkt, fikk han se en rykende ovn og en luende ild som for frem mellem kjøttstykkene. |
| Portuguese | Quando o sol já estava posto, e era escuro, eis um fogo fumegante e uma tocha de fogo, que passaram por entre aquelas metades. |
| Rumanian | Dupq ce a asfinyit soarele, s`a fqcut un kntunerec adknc; wi iatq cq a iewit un fum ca dintr`un cuptor, wi niwte flqcqri au trecut printre dobitoacele despicate. |
| Swedish | Då nu solen hade gått ned och det hade blivit alldeles mörkt, syntes en rykande ugn med flammande låga, som for fram mellan styckena. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "smoking": antismoking, besmoking, nonsmoking, outsmoking, oversmoking. (additional references) | |
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"Smoking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: moking, shoking, smokeing, smokin, smoozing, sooking, sumoing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "smoking" (pronounced smō"king) |
| 6 | s m ō" k i ng | antismoking, nonsmoking. |
| 4 | -ō" k i ng | broking, choking, cloaking, coking, croaking, evoking, invoking, joking, poking, provoking, revoking, soaking, stoking, stroking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, chucking, clanking, clicking, clucking, cocking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, politicking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, snaking, sneaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, streaking, striking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-k-m-n-o-s" | |
-2 letters: ginks, gismo, ikons, kings, kinos, minks, monks, oinks, skimo. | |
-3 letters: gink, gins, ikon, inks, ions, king, kino, kins, kois, migs, mink, miso, mogs, monk, mons, mosk, nims, nogs, noms, oink, sign, sing, sink, skim, skin, smog, snog, song. | |
-4 letters: gin, gos, ink, ins, ion, ism, kin, koi, kos, mig, mis, mog, mon, mos. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-k-m-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: kingdoms, smocking. | |
+2 letters: besmoking, embosking, misyoking, smockings. | |
+3 letters: miscooking, misknowing, mosaicking, nonsmoking, outsmoking, sjamboking, snowmaking, subkingdom. | |
+4 letters: antismoking, bookmakings, homemakings, lovemakings, noisemaking, oversmoking, postmarking, subkingdoms, toolmakings. | |
+5 letters: locksmithing, misknowledge, misreckoning, mockingbirds, moneymakings, moviemakings, noisemakings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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