smoke
1. a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas (Freq. 65)
• Syn:
fume
• Derivationally related forms:
fume (for: fume), fumigate (for: fume), smoky
• Hypernyms:
aerosol
• Hyponyms:
gun smoke, smother
2. a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion (Freq. 4)
- the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles
• Syn:
smoking
• Derivationally related forms:
smoke (for: smoking), smoky
• Hypernyms:
vaporization, vaporisation, vapor, vapour, evaporation
3. an indication of some hidden activity
- with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere
• Hypernyms:
indication, indicant
4. something with no concrete substance
- his dreams all turned to smoke
- it was just smoke and mirrors
• Usage Domain:
colloquialism
• Hypernyms:
insubstantiality
5. street names for marijuana
• Syn:
pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed,
gage, sess, sens, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane
• Derivationally related forms:
dope (for: dope)
• Hypernyms:
cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, ganja
6. tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
• Syn:
roll of tobacco
• Hypernyms:
tobacco, baccy
• Hyponyms:
cigar, cigarette, cigaret, coffin nail, butt, fag
7. the act of smoking tobacco or other substances
- he went outside for a smoke
- smoking stinks
• Syn:
smoking
• Derivationally related forms:
smoke (for: smoking)
• Hypernyms:
breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation
• Hyponyms:
puffing
• Part Meronyms:
puff, drag, pull
8. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- he swung late on the fastball
- he showed batters nothing but smoke
• Syn:
fastball, heater, hummer, bullet
• Topics:
baseball, baseball game
• Hypernyms:
pitch, delivery
• Hyponyms:
slider
1. inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes (Freq. 12)
- We never smoked marijuana
- Do you smoke?
• Derivationally related forms:
smoker, smoking
• Hypernyms:
consume, ingest, take in, take, have
• Hyponyms:
chain-smoke, puff, whiff, inhale
• Entailment:
inhale, inspire, breathe in, exhale, expire, breathe out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
2. emit a cloud of fine particles
- The chimney was fuming
• Syn:
fume
• Derivationally related forms:
smoking, fume (for: fume)
• Hypernyms:
emit, give out, give off
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
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