Word Finder - smoke

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The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.

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A cigarette.

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Can I bum a smoke off you?;  I need to go buy some smokes.

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Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)

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Hey, you got some smoke?

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(never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.

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I'm going out for a smoke.

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A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.

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The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.

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Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.

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The smoke of controversy.

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A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.

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A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.

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A fastball.

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Of the colour known as smoke.

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Made of or with smoke.

Dark memories lingered like smoke after a fire.

She hadn't seen him smoke since.

The engine turned over and backfired, black smoke frothing out of the tail pipe.

The smoke tickled her nose.

And there was a smell of cigarette smoke, a definite no-no, one of the few points on which he and the old man agreed.

Several cars were on fire, and black smoke spiraled toward the sky.

I heard once that an Indian can smell cigarette smoke for six miles.

Unless you smoke, you don't pay attention to cigarettes.

I think the smoke bothered Mr. Louden too.

It dissipated into black smoke in his hands.

It was Lydia's trailing smoke that floated it to life.

She added, Most old pictures and records went up in smoke when the old building burned.

They moved like smoke, shifting and swirling as they crawled the walls.

Green smoke swirled from the man's ears and mouth, forming a fog around Gabe's hand before crystallizing into a small emerald.

She followed the two through the acrid smoke into the command hub.

The music blared louder, the smoke became thicker, and the scent of food intermingled with body odor.

The air was filled with marijuana smoke and the scent of bodies sweating as people danced, drank or huddled with friends.

The smoke proved to be too much for Adrienne and two other girls, so they decided to walk each other home.

The smoke was bothering me and I didn't want to ruin the party for all of you, so I simply walked home.

If he isn't blowing smoke, it's a world-class opportunity.

There was a lingering smell of wood smoke in the night air and all earlier efforts at shoveling the walkway and stairs were lost in the smooth swirls of new fallen whiteness.

She couldn't tell how many there were, not with the smoke and darkness.

But all his good intentions and promises went up in smoke minutes later with another phone call.

I don't care if people smoke, but I wish they'd respect the fact that I don't want to smoke.

The smoke funneled into the red ruby, disappearing into its depths.

Tobacco is the great luxury of the men of all classes in Egypt, who begin and end the day with it, and generally smoke all day with little intermission.

For live aboard's the use of a solid fuel cabin heater should be treated with caution as all wood smoke contains carbon monoxide.

First Floor Landing - Loft access, smoke detector, textured ceiling.

A properly qualified electrician may be able to advise you about linking smoke alarms.

Yes I know this is a steam tutorial, and were using a smoke sprite!

If the plan member does not answer the hands-free contact from the dispatcher, emergency workers are also sent out.The smoke detectors used by the company do not just make a noise if smoke is detected as most smoke detectors do.

The milk is then carefully dried by turning the mould round and round in the smoke produced by burning wood mixed with certain oily palm nuts; those of A ttalea excelsa are considered best, the smoke being confined within certain limits by the narrowness of the neck of the pot in which the nuts are heated.

Its situation, general plan and literary associations suggested a comparison that gave Edinburgh the name of " the modern Athens "; but it has a homelier nickname of " Auld Reekie," from the cloud of smoke (reek) which often hangs over the low-lying quarters.

Both men and women avoided washing, but there was something of the nature of a vapour bath, with which Herodotus has confused a custom of using the smoke of hemp as a narcotic. The women daubed themselves with a kind of cosmetic paste.

Men, women and children all smoke tobacco.

In his cosmogonic treatise on nature and the gods, called Hevr4tvxo (Preller's correction of Suidas, who has E7rTaµuXos) from the five elementary or original principles (aether, fire, air, water, earth; Gomperz substitutes smoke and darkness for aether and earth), he enunciated a system in which science, allegory and mythology were blended.

The collection also contains treatises on eloquence, some historical fragments, and literary trifles on such subjects as the praise of smoke and dust, of negligence, and a dissertation on Anion.

But of late years the beauties of the Rhine have become sadly marred; the banks in places, especially between Coblenz and Bonn, disfigured by quarrying, the air made dense with the smoke of cement factories and steam-tugs, commanding spots falling a prey to the speculative builder and villages growing into towns.

They sometimes cause a serious dislocation of railway and other traffic. Their principal cause is the smoke from the general domestic use of coal.

Huge caves, of which the most noted are the Farm Caves, occur in the hills near Moulmein, and they too are full of relics of their ancient use as temples, though now they are chiefly visited in connexion with the bats, whose flight viewed from a distance, as they issue from the caves, resembles a cloud of smoke.

The term tobacco appears not to have been a commonly used original name for the plant, and it has come to us from a peculiar instrument used for inhaling its smoke by the inhabitants of Hispaniola (San Domingo).

The instrument, described by Oviedo (Historia de las Indias Occidentales, Salamanca, 1535), consisted of a small hollow wooden tube, shaped like a Y, the two points of which being inserted in the nose of the smoker, the other end was held into the smoke of burning tobacco, and thus the fumes were inhaled.

The fillers or inner contents of the cigar must be of uniform quality, and so packed and distributed in a longitudinal direction that the tobacco may burn uniformly and the smoke can be freely drawn from end to end.

The thurible, the proper ecclesiastical term for the vessel in the Western Church, is usually spherical in form, though often square or polygonal, containing a small receptacle for the charcoal and covered by a perforated lid; it is carried and swung by three chains, a fourth being attached to the lid, thus allowing it to be raised at intervals for the volume of smoke to be increased.

An outbreak in 1894 produced numerous rifts in the inner walls from which steam and smoke have issued ever since.

The roof was thatched, and perhaps had a gable at each end with a hole to allow the smoke of the wood fire to escape.

He suffered much from asthma, a complaint which was aggravated by the London smoke.

It was almost dark when the Prussians approached the French position between Rezonville and the woods to the northward, and the troops soon lost direction in the smoke and became involved in the direst confusion; the firing again blazed out for a few moments, only to die away as utter exhaustion at length put an end to the Prussian advance.

The conditions were rendered difficult by spray, heavy sea and smoke driving down the line, but the shot fell only Soo yd.

This class of c coal burns with a very small amount of flame, produc ing intense local heat and no smoke.