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Smoke

Definition: Smoke

Smoke

Noun

1. A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas.

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".

3. An indication of some hidden activity; "with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere".

4. (informal) 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.

6. A soft drug consisting of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect.

7. The act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks".

8. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke".

Verb

1. Inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?".

2. Emit fumes.

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

Date "smoke" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Smoke \Smoke\, noun. [Anglo-Saxon smoca, from sme['o]can to smoke; akin to Low German & Dutch smook smoke, Danish sm["o]g, German schmauch, and perhaps to Greek to burn in a smoldering fire; compare to Lithuanian smaugti to choke.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Smoke

DomainDefinition

Computing

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. Source: Jargon File.

Dream Interpretation

To dream of smoke, foretells that you will be perplexed with doubts and fears.
To be overcome with smoke, denotes that dangerous persons are victimizing you with flattery. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Environment

Suspension in the atmosphere of small particles produced by combustion. Source: European Union. (references)

Industry

Thread of glass differing in colour from the surrounding glass. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Smoke To detect, or rather to get a scent, of some plot or scheme. The allusion is to the detection of robbers by the smoke seen to issue from their place of concealment.
No smoke without fire. Every slander has some foundation. The reverse proverb, "No fire without smoke," means no good without some drawback.
To end in smoke. To come to no practical result. The allusion is to kindling, which smokes, but will not light a fire.
To smoke the calumet (or pipe) of peace. (See Calumet.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Medicine

Airborne particulate resulting from the combustion of organic matter, with particles ranging in size from approximately 0. 01 to 2 micro-m. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

The exhalation, visible vapor, or material that escapes or is expelled from a burning substance during combustion; applied esp. to the volatile matter expelled from wood, coal, peat, etc. together with the solid matter that is carried off in suspension with it. That which is expelled from metallic substances is generally called fume or fumes. See also:fume;metallurgical smoke. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Quebecois (boucane). (references)

Weather

Particles suspended in air after incomplete combustion of materials. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Smoke

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Smoke is a suspension in air of small particles resulting from incomplete combustion of a fuel. It is commonly an unwanted by-product of fires, but may also be used for pest control, communication (smoke signals) or inhalation. Controlled combustion normally takes place in closed containers (such as engines, stoves and lamps) and the exhaust smoke is released through a chimney or exhaust pipe.

Smoke inhalation is a common cause of death in victims of indoor fires. The smoke kills by a combination of thermal damage, asphyxiation and pulmonary irritation.

See also dust, fire fighter, smog, tobacco.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Smoke."

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Tobacco smoking

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

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.

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.

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 :

References:

  1. 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
  2. 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."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Smoke

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
SMOGEnglishSmoke and FogEnvironment

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Smoke

Synonyms: bullet (n), cannabis (n), dope (n), fastball (n), fume (n), gage (n), ganja (n), grass (n), heater (n), hummer (n), marihuana (n), marijuana (n), pot (n), roll of tobacco (n), sens (n), sess (n), skunk (n), smoking (n), weed (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Smoke

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discovery

Be near the truth, be warm, get warmer, burn; smoke, scent, sniff, catch a whiff of, smell a rat.

Disrespect

Have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle, gleek, gird, flout, fleer; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque; laugh to scorn; (contempt); smoke; fool; make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of; play a practical joke; lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob.

Heat

Verb: be hot. Adjective: glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant.

Pungency

Render -pungent. Adjective: season, spice, salt, pepper, pickle, brine, devil. smoke, chew, take snuff.

Nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid, smoke; segar; cigar, cigarette; weed; fragrant weed, Indian weed; Cavendish, fid, negro head, old soldier, rappee, stogy.

Unbelief Doubt

Doubt; be doubtful; (uncertain); doubt the truth of; be skeptical as to; Adjective: diffide; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke, scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts, suspicions; have one's doubts.

Uncleanness

Render unclean; Adjective: dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease;dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear; bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt; (injure); cover with dust; Noun: drabble in the mud; roil.

Dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle.

Vaporization

Verb: render -gaseous; vaporize, volatilize; distill, sublime; evaporate, exhale, smoke, transpire, emit vapor, fume, reek, steam, fumigate; cohobate; finestill.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Smoke

English words defined with "smoke": Frost smokegun smokesmoke alarm, Smoke arch, Smoke board, smoke bomb, Smoke box, smoke grenade, smoke hole, smoke out, Smoke sail, smoke screenTo smoke the pipe of peace. (references)
Specialty definitions using "smoke": coal smokeenvironmental tobacco smokelegitimate smoke, let the smoke out, Long-Haired Smokemainstream smokepall of smoke, Passive Smoking/Secondhand SmokeSMOKE AND FLAME SPECIALIST, smoke and mirrors, Smoke Farthings, Smoke Inhalation Injury, smoke Long-Hair, smoke pall, smoke Persian, Smoke Silver, smoke stick, smoke suppressant, smoke technique, smoke test, smoke vent, smoke washer, smoke zone, SUPERVISOR, SMOKE CONTROLTO SMOKE, Tobacco Smoke Pollution. (references)
Etymologies containing "smoke": fumitory. (references)

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Modern Usage: Smoke

DomainUsage

Screenplays

He's an Irishman who doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, and doesn't chase dames (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward)

Well some people think that 'to puff the magic dragon' means to puff smoke marijuana cigarettes (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke)

These are fine cigars you smoke. (Double Indemnity; writing credit: James M. Cain; Billy Wilder)

Smoke 'em if you got them (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon)

Don't blow smoke up my ass, you'll ruin my autopsy (Meet Joe Black; writing credit: Martin Brest, screenplay adaptation by Walter Ferris. Based on the play 'Death Takes a Holiday' by Alberto Casella.)

Lyrics

Smoke on the water, fire in the sky (Smoke on the Water; performing artist: Deep Purple)

But the smoke ain't got nothing on me (Sunshine; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson)

You wait and see when the smoke clears (You Learn; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Clever

You're trailer trash when you let your twelve-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Smoke (1970)

Up in Smoke (1970)

Where There's Smoke (1970)

Don't Smoke Pot (1968)

Smoke of Evil (1967)

Song Titles

SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES  (performing artist: Platters )

SMOKE OF A DISTANT FIRE (performing artist: SANFORD TOWNSEND BAND)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Smoke

DomainTitle

References

  • The World Market for Gas or Smoke Analysis Apparatus: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Smoke

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Photo Album: Smoke

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A black woman is seated on a park bench in a wooded area inhaling cigarette smoke. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

This is a cartoon from Harper's Weekly circa 1890. It shows an office worker, whose smoking cigar is drooping from his mouth, reading a sign on the wall: "No Smoking In Offices During Office Hours". The caption reads: "another civic-service outrage. Less smoke and more fire". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Burning building and firefighter at Emory Village, Atlanta, Georgia, January 1979. Fire, smoke. Credit: CDC.

Solid Smoke. Credit: NASA.

Texas Wildfires Create Smoke Plumes. Credit: NASA.

Dense Smoke Plumes Visible From Western Fires. Credit: NASA.

Ames Smoke Tunnel. Credit: NASA.

Sea smoke, sea ice, and icicles NOAA Ship SURVEYOR in some co-l-l-l-d weather. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Sea smoke forming towards open water from first year ice at the Bay of Whales. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

U.S. Marines advance after Marine close-air fighters plaster targets ahead during fighting in Korea. Billowing smoke and flames from the small, tight target areas bear out the accuracy of the flying Leathernecks' marksmanship. (Marine Corps photo).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Smoke
 

"Smoke On Water" by Kristoffer Rekstad
Commentary: "When I captured this picture, everything seem to be black. When it was captured it god some mysterious cind of blue..."
"Smoke Repository" by André Guergolet
Commentary: "Smoke....cigar..."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Smoke".

PlayCaption
Alarm; alert; balefire; beam; bonfire; flare; guidepost; heliograph; lamp; lantern; lighthouse; lodestar; pharos; radar; rocket; rocket; sign; signal fire; smoke signal; beacon; warning signal; watchtower.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Smoke

AuthorQuotation

Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Bill Hicks

I smoke, if this bothers anyone, I recommend you looking around the world in which we live and... shutting your fucking mouth. Either that or suffer a facial burn, your choice. After all this is America, land of freedom, so you have that option ahead of you.

George Eliot

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Smoke

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The smoke of its roofs is the ideas of the universe

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

If you want a good smoke, he said, try one of these cigars

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

They rumbled along, putting a little earthquake in the ground, and the standing exhaust pipes sputtered blue smoke from the Diesel oil.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

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

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

I will not have my eyes put out and my ears spoiled by its smoke and steam and hissing

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Tom Stoppard

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us; leaving nothing but a memory of the smell of smoke and a presumption that our eyes once watered

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Smoke

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

You should not smoke. (references)

Do not smoke around your child. (references)

Don't smoke, chew tobacco, or drink alcohol. (references)

Business

German suppliers of smoke and gas detectors also occupy an important market share. (references)

The standards are based on measurements of 33 priority pollutants and smoke stack height. (references)

Competition is, however, limited to video equipment, car alarms and smoke detection devices. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

Under the plan the government will give special incentives to vehicles using compressed natural gas (CNG) and will also impose a pollution tax on smoke emitting vehicles. (references)

Indonesia

Indonesia's most pressing environmental issues include deforestation, water pollution from industrial sources, sewage, air pollution in urban areas, and smoke and haze from forest fires. (references)

Brazil

Products imported from the United States include kitchen accessories and tools, towel heaters, security and surveillance systems, toilet fan systems, smoke detectors, fire resistant doors, air conditioning systems, silverware, china, cleaning carts and accessories, as well as laundry and dry cleaning equipment. (references)

Trade

Indonesia

When the smoke cleared, the total number of banks had declined from 238 pre-crisis to 162 (5 state-owned national banks, 27 state-owned regional development banks, 120 private banks, and 10 foreign branches, not counting joint-venture banks and foreign banks' representative offices). (references)

Travel

Mexico

Mexicans are accustomed to smoke and drink freely at business meals. (references)

Nigeria

Few hotels have working smoke detectors, and emergency exits are often sealed. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. Sylphs were allied to gnomes, nymphs and salamanders, which dwelt, respectively, in earth, water and fire, all now insalubrious. Sylphs, like fowls of the air, were male and female, to no purpose, apparently, for if they had progeny they must have nested in accessible places, none of the chicks having ever been seen.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Smoke

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Bob Barker

I tried to, but I was very fortunate. It made me sick. I couldn't smoke. When I was growing up, everybody smoked.

Howard Lutnick

Well, as I saw the building I could see the smoke engulfing the top of the building and it was clear that things were going to be, things were going to be terrible.

Rush Limbaugh

I, El Rushbo, am about to blow the minds of all of you who have swallowed the one-sided propaganda that tells you second-hand smoke is the deadliest substance known to humanity.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Smoke

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Until then, we see all that rhetorical smoke, billowing out from the Democrats, well ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the example of their nominee.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001People who smoke should pay more for a pack of cigarettes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Smoke

"Smoke" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.16% of the time. "Smoke" is used about 3,398 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)73.16%2,4863,632
Lexical Verb (infinitive)18.17%61710,463
Lexical Verb (base form)7.32%24918,850
Noun (proper)1.32%4550,900
Noun (common)0.03%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3,398N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Smoke

The following table summarizes the usage of "smoke" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
SmokeLast name20032,815
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Smoke

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "smoke".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
AshanN/ABiblical

Smoke

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Smoke

Expressions using "smoke": a cloud of smoke american smoke tree begin to smoke belch out smoke blacken with smoke Blue Smoke by smoke from the altar cloud of smoke column of smoke cover up with a smoke screen dying for a smoke end in smoke environmental tobacco smoke fill with smoke filled with smoke free from smoke frost smoke give off smoke give out smoke giving out smoke go from smoke to smother go up in smoke gun smoke have a smoke it's getting on like smoke legitimate smoke let the smoke out like smoke London smoke magic smoke mainstream smoke no smoke without fire pall of smoke pillar of smoke plume of smoke poisoned by smoke prairie smoke puff of flame and smoke puff of smoke puff out rings of smoke puff smoke raise a big smoke rising smoke smithereens and smoke smoke absorber smoke agent smoke alarm smoke and mirrors smoke arch smoke ball smoke black smoke board smoke bomb smoke box smoke bush smoke chaser smoke consumer smoke detector smoke door smoke dried smoke extractor smoke float smoke flue smoke gas smoke generator smoke grass smoke grenade smoke hash smoke helmet smoke hole smoke house Smoke Inhalation Injury smoke kiln smoke like a chimney smoke louvre smoke mask smoke out smoke outlet smoke pall smoke Persian smoke pipe smoke pot smoke ring Smoke Rise smoke sail smoke screen smoke screening smoke shop smoke signal smoke stack smoke suppressant smoke test smoke the peace pipe smoke the pipe of peace smoke trail smoke tree smoke vent surround with smoke tear smoke the room is full of smoke there is no smoke without fire. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "smoke": smoke-alarm, smoke-ale, smoke-bathing, smoke-belching, smoke-bell, smoke-black, smoke-blackened, smoke-bleared, smoke-blowing, smoke-blue, smoke-bombs, smoke-box, smoke-brown, smoke-busters, smoke-carrying, smoke-cleaning, smoke-cloud, smoke-colored, smoke-cured, smoke-damaged, smoke-darkened, smoke-detector, smoke-dried, Smoke-dry, smoke-dyed, smoke-emitting diode, smoke-filled, smoke-fogged, smoke-free, smoke-grey, smoke-grimed, smoke-houses, smoke-involv, smoke-jack, smoke-laden, smoke-like, smoke-logged, smoke-outline, smoke-producing, smoke-reeked, smoke-rooms, smoke-scented, smoke-screen, smoke-screens, smoke-shrouded, smoke-signal, smoke-signalled, smoke-signals, smoke-smelling, smoke-stack, smoke-stacked, smoke-stained, smoke-stick, smoke-stop, smoke-swirls, smoke-tarred, smoke-tinted, smoke-tired, smoke-trail, smoke-vent, smoke-venting, smoke-wreathed, smoke-yellowed.

Ending with "smoke": cigar-smoke, wood-smoke.

Containing "smoke": stick-that-in-your-pipe-and-smoke-it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Smoke

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

smoke away

1,855

cigar smoke

90

smoke

1,179

smoke machine

89

second hand smoke

410

secondhand smoke

87

smoke detector

388

pancake smoke

86

smoke shop

331

smoke salmon

84

smoke bomb

288

smoke fetish

84

cheap smoke

275

smoke meat

83

smoke signal

258

smoke pipe

80

7 day smoke away

216

smoke eater

77

smoke on the water

195

smoke ring

77

drink only she she smoke when

195

smoke spirits

72

smoke alarm

161

famous smoke shop

64

cigarette smoke

146

smoke bush

63

smoke tree

124

liquid smoke

62

smoke free

123

lyrics smoke water

60

herbal smoke

120

smoke house

60

the up in smoke tour

108

smoke damage

59

smoke grenade

106

blue smoke

58

up in smoke

103

holy smoke

57

smoke spirits.com

90

smoke generator

56
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Smoke

Language Translations for "smoke"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

rook. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

tymoj (fume, fumigate), tym (exhalation, fume, soot), pi duhan (have a smoke), nxjerr tym, duhan (the weed, tobacco), cigare (cigarette, fag, gasper, weed). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏إنتشر كالدخان, ‏إنبعث الدخان, ‏شىء كالدخان, ‏دخن (cure, fume, fumigate, inhale, reek), ‏دخان (fume, reek, smolder, smoulder). (various references)

   

Basque

  

ke. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разярен съм, цигара (burn, cigarette, fag), вдигам пара, опушвам (blacken with smoke, fumigate), одимявам (blacken with smoke), задимявам, лула (pipe, tobacco pipe), пура (cigar, weed), пушек (reek), пушене (smoking), пуша (fume, puff at, reek, smolder, smoulder, whiff), изпущам пара (reek, steam), димя (fume, reek), дим (fume). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

, 煙霧 , (cigarette, tobacco), 硝煙 , 抽煙 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

kouřit (fume, reek), kouř (fume). (various references)

   

Danish

  

røg, ryge (fumigate, to puff). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

smoken, rook (fume), roken (smoking). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

fumo, fumi. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

roykur, roykja, glaða. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مه غلیظ, سیگارکشیدن , استعمال دود, استعمال دخانیات , دودکردن , دوددادن , دود (Whiff). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

savuta (reek), savu. (various references)

   

French

  

fumer (smoking), fumée (smoulder). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

rikje, reek. (various references)

   

German

  

Rauch (fume, reek, rude), rauchen (fume, give off smoke, smoking, to fume, to smoke). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καπνός (fume, tobacco), καπνίζω (cure, fume, fumigate). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לקטור (fume), לעשן (fume, fumigate), להעלות עשן, עתר (odour), עשן (fume). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

füst (fume, reek). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

reykur. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengasapi (cure, fumigate, scent), mengasap (become, cure, scent), berasap (dim, misty), asap (fumes). (various references)

   

Irish

  

deatach. (various references)

   

Italian

  

fumo (fume, pother, smoking, steam), fumare (fume, reek, steam, to smoke). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(fumes), 噴煙 , 排煙 , スマート爆弾 (slice, slide, slider, slider-memory, sliding, smack, smart bomb, smash, smear, smellovision, smile, smiley, Smithsonian Institution, smog, smoked cheese, smoked salmon, smoker, smooth, smoothing operation, variable autotransformer). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふんえん, スモーク , けむり (fumes), はいえん (neglected or abandoned garden, pneumonia). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

연기 (Postponement, Postponing). (various references)

   

Malay

  

asap. (various references)

   

Manx

  

toghtaney (fumigation, smoking), toght (mattress), toghan, jaaghey (fumes, fumigate, fumigation, smoking), jaagh (fumes, reek), cur jaagh (smoking). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

røyk (fume). (various references)

   

Occitan

  

fum. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

huma. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

okesmay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

palić, dymić. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

fumo (fume, reek, tobacco, tobacco leaf, vapor, vapour, weed), fumaça (fume), fumar (fume, puff, reek, to smoke). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

fumar (to smoke). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

fuma (have a smoke, puff). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

курение (smoking), курить (puff), копоть (soot), дымиться (reek), дымить;курить дым, дымить (fume, puff), дым (fume, reek). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

smùid (a blow, attack), smùdan (a particle of dust, a small block of wood, ring dove), smùcan, toit (fume, steam, vapour), deathach , deatach, deathach. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pušiti (blow, have a smoke), nadimiti (fumigate, smoke-dry), dimiti (smoke-dry), dim (aerosol), cigareta (butt, cigarette, fag). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fumar (smoking, to smoke), humo (fume, fumes, steam), humear (fume, reek). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

smoko. (various references)

   

Swahili

  

moshi. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ryka (fly about, fume, reek, steam), röka (bloat, cure, fume, fumigate, reek), rök (fume, fumes, reek, steam). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

úsok. (various references)

   

Thai

  

สูบบุหรี่, ควัน (fume). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sigara içmek (have a smoke, indulge), sigara içme (smoking), sigara (cigaret, cigarette, fag), tüttürmek (give out smoke, puff), tüttürme, tütsülemek (bloat, cense, fume, fumigate, incense, kipper, stove), tütmek (fume, give out smoke, reek), tütme (giving out smoke, reek, smoking), is yapmak (smut, soot), duman tabakası, duman (fog, fume, mist), afyon (opium, opium poppy, poppy), íçmek (drink). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

tьtemek (steam), tьsse. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

чадити, курити (blow), куриво, кіптява, закоптити (besmirch), паління (smoking), палити (blow, burn, funk, grill), диміти (puff), дим (fume, reek). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trừ khói (smoke-consuming), nơi hun khói (smoke-house), muội (smoke-black, soot), máy hút khói (smoke-consumer), hút khói (smoke-consuming), cái nón thông phong (smoke-bell), cái chụp khói (smoke-bell), bom khói (smoke-bomb), bom hoả mù (smoke-bomb), bồ hóng (grime, smoke-black, soot), đạn khói (smoke-ball), đạn hoả mù (smoke-ball). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

smocio. (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

ts'u'uts'ik (kiss, suck), ts'u'uts' (kiss, suck), buts'. (various references)

   

Zulu

  

inthuthu, -bhema. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Smoke

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

i-bi. (various references)

Greek700 BCE-300 CE

typhos. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

fumabat, fumabis, fumans, fumantem, fumet, fumi, fumigans, fumigantium, fumo, fumum, fumus. (various references)

Old French900-1400

fum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Smoke

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 10, Verse 26
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintWsper omfax odousi blaberon kai kapnoV ommasin outwV paranomia toiV crwmenoiV authn
Latin405VulgateSicut acetum dentibus et fumus oculis sic piger his qui miserunt eum
Old English990West SaxonSwa eced toðum ond rec eagum,swa is slawa þam þe hine onsendað.
Middle English1395WyclifAs eisel to teeth, and smoke to eyen; so the slowe to hem that senten hym in the weie.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAs vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Victorian English1833WebsterAs vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Basic English1964OgdenLike acid drink to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the hater of work to those who send him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Smoke

LanguageProverbs Chapter 10, Verse 26
Cebuano¶ Maingon sa suka nga alang sa mga ngipon, ug sa aso nga alang sa mga mata, Mao man usab ang tapulan alang niadtong nagasugo kaniya.
Chinese懶 惰 人 叫 差 他 的 人 、 如 醋 倒 牙 、 如 煙 薰 目 。
CroatianKakav je ocat zubima i dim oèima, takav je ljenivac onima koji ga šalju.
DanishSom Eddike for Tænder og Røg for Øjne så er den lade for dem, der sender ham.
DutchGelijk edik den tanden, en gelijk rook den ogen is, zo is de luie dengenen, die hem uitzenden.
FinnishMitä hapan hampaille ja savu silmille, sitä laiska lähettäjillensä.
FrenchCe que le vinaigre est aux dents et la fumée aux yeux, Tel est le paresseux pour celui qui l`envoie.
GermanWie der Essig den Zähnen und der Rauch den Augen tut, so tut der Faule denen, die ihn senden.
Haitian Creole¶ Pa janm voye parese fè komisyon pou ou. L'ap ennève ou menm jan sitwon fè dan moun gasi, menm jan lafimen fè je moun koule dlo.
HungarianMinémû az eczet a fogaknak és a füst a szemeknek, olyan a rest azoknak, a kik azt elküldötték.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariJangan menyuruh orang malas, ia hanya menjengkelkan saja, seperti cuka melinukan gigi atau asap memedihkan mata.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaSeperti cuka pada gigi dan seperti asap kepada mata, demikianlah orang malas kepada orang yang menyuruhkan dia.
ItalianCome l'aceto ai denti e il fumo agli occhi così è il pigro per chi gli affida una missione.
Korean의 인 의 소 망 은 즐 거 움 을 이 루 어 도 악 인 의 소 망 은 끊 어 지 느 니 라
Maori¶ He winika ki nga niho, he paowa ki nga kanohi: koia ano te mangere ki ona kaiunga.
NorwegianSom eddik for tennene og røk for øinene, slik er den late for den som sender ham.
PortugueseComo vinagre para os dentes, como fumaça para os olhos, assim é o preguiçoso para aqueles que o mandam.   
RumanianCum este oyetul pentru dinyi wi fumul pentru ochi, awa este lenewul pentru cel ce -l trimete. -
RussianюФП ХЛУХУ ДМС ЪХВПЧ Й ДЩН ДМС ЗМБЪ, ФП МЕОЙЧЩК ДМС РПУЩМБАЭЙИ ЕЗП.
SpanishComo es el vinagre a los dientes y el humo a los ojos, así es el perezoso a los que lo envían.
SwedishSåsom syra för tänderna och såsom rök för ögonen, så är den late för den som har sänt honom åstad.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Smoke

Derivations

Words beginning with "smoke": smokeable, smoked, smokehouse, smokehouses, smokejack, smokejacks, smokeless, smokelike, smokepot, smokepots, smoker, smokers, smokes, smokescreen, smokescreens, smokestack, smokestacks, smokey. (additional references)

Words ending with "smoke": antismoke, besmoke, outsmoke, oversmoke. (additional references)

Words containing "smoke": antismoker, antismokers, besmoked, besmokes, nonsmoker, nonsmokers, outsmoked, outsmokes, oversmoked, oversmokes, unsmoked. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Smoke" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amoke, Msika, seoki, Shmekov, shmok, Shoka, shoke, smace, smake, smaken, smakke, smeek, smek, smo, smoak, smok, smokey, smooze, smoue, smove, smue, snoek, snok, snuke. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Smoke

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mokes.

Words within the letters "e-k-m-o-s"

-1 letter: moke, mosk, okes, soke, some.

-2 letters: ems, kos, mos, oes, oke, oms, ose, som.

-3 letters: em, es, me, mo, oe, om, os, so.

 Words containing the letters "e-k-m-o-s"
 

+1 letter: embosk, smoked, smoker, smokes, smokey.

 

+2 letters: bemocks, besmoke, comakes, embosks, gemsbok, irksome, misyoke, mockers, monkeys, mopokes, smocked, smokers, smokier, sockmen, sokeman, sokemen.

 

+3 letters: abelmosk, besmoked, besmokes, comakers, darksome, dukedoms, embosked, gemsboks, hemlocks, homesick, koumises, koumyses, larksome, leukomas, menfolks, meshwork, misspoke, misyoked, misyokes, moleskin, monikers, mosslike, outsmoke, sheikdom, smokable, smokepot, smokiest, stockmen, tokenism, unsmoked.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Frequency
17. Names: Derived from
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern
21. Translations: Ancient
22. Bible Trace
23. Abbreviations
24. Acronyms
25. Derivations
26. Anagrams
27. Bibliography


  

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