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As a proper noun smoke

is london.

smoke

English

(wikipedia smoke)

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
  • (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
  • (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
  • * 1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII:
  • I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke , and went on watching.
  • (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
  • (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors .
  • (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
  • (military, uncountable) 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.
  • (baseball, slang) A fastball.
  • Synonyms

    * (cigarette) cig, ciggy, cancer stick, fag (qualifier)

    Derived terms

    * Big Smoke * holy smoke * no smoke without fire * secondhand smoke/second-hand smoke * sidestream smoke * smoke alarm * smoke and mirrors * smoke bomb * smokebox * smoke detector * smoke-dried * smoke eater * smoke-filled room * smoke-free zone * smokeho * smokehouse * smokejack * smoke jumper, smokejumper * smokeless * smoke ring * smokescreen/smoke screen/smoke-screen * smoke signal * smokestack * smoke tree * smoke wagon * Smokey the Bear * throwing smoke

    Verb

  • To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke , and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
  • * , chapter=12
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=To Edward
  • To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually.
  • To give off smoke.
  • * Milton
  • Hard by a cottage chimney smokes .
  • To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
  • (slang) To perform ( music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
  • (US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
  • (NZ, slang) To beat someone at something.
  • (obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
  • * (Geoffrey Chaucer)
  • Smoking the temple.
  • (obsolete) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
  • * Chapman
  • I alone / Smoked his true person, talked with him.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.
  • * Addison
  • Upon that I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.
  • (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
  • To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxix. 20
  • The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man.
  • To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
  • * Dryden
  • Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
  • To suffer severely; to be punished.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.
    (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the verb "smoke") * chain-smoke * smoker * smoke out * smoking

    Adjective

  • Of the colour known as smoke.
  • Made of or with smoke.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 citation , passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the

    See also

    * bogue * cigar * cigarette * hypercapnia * reek * pipe * smudge pot * tobacco * typhus *

    pot

    English

    (wikipedia pot)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from late (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vessel used for cooking or storing food, or for growing plants in, especially flowers.
  • * , chapter=10
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots , such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
  • (label) The money wagered in poker or similar games.
  • A trap for catching lobsters, crabs, eels, or fish.
  • (label) An iron hat with a broad brim.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1786, author=(Francis Grose), title=A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page=12,
  • passage=The pot is an iron hat with broad brims: there are many under the denomination in the Tower, said to have been taken from the French; one of them is represented in plat 7, fig. 1 and 2.}}
  • A glass of beer, of a size that varies regionally but is normally 10 fl oz (285 ml).
  • * 2009 , Deborah Penrith, Jodie Seal, Live & Work in Australia , page 187,
  • There are plenty of pubs and bars all over Australia (serving beer in schooners – 425ml or middies/pots ~285ml), and if you don?t fancy those you can drink in wine bars, pleasant beer gardens, or with friends at home.
  • A potshot.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , passage=England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.}}
  • (label) A protruding belly; a paunch.
  • (label) Ruin or deterioration.
  • The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket.
  • (label) A potentiometer.
  • (label) A non-conducting, usually ceramic, stand that supports the third rail while keeping it electrically insulated from the ground.
  • (label) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
  • A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
  • A crucible.
  • a graphite pot'''; a melting '''pot
  • A perforated cask for draining sugar.
  • (Knight)
  • A size of paper; pott.
  • (label) toilet
  • * 2011 , Ben Zeller, Secrets of Beaver Creek (page 204)
  • Synonyms
    * (cooking vessel) * (money wagered in a card game) * (trap for crustaceans or fish) * middy (qualifier), schooner (South Australia) * (potshot) * (protruding belly) beer belly * * (in English billiards) winning hazard * (potentiometer) * (non-conducting stand for a third rail)
    Derived terms
    * pot head * chamberpot * pisspot * pot ale * pot boiler * pot life * pot holder * pot roast * pot-au-feu * potbelly * potboil * potboiler * pothole * potpie * potpourri * potshot * potsherd * pot stirrer * pottage * potter * pottery * potty * hot pot * potted plant * stir the pot * teapot * two pot screamer
    See also
    * cooker * multicooker

    Verb

  • To put (something) into a pot.
  • to pot a plant
  • To preserve by bottling or canning.
  • potted meat
  • (label) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
  • (label) To be capable of being potted.
  • The black ball doesn't pot ; the red is in the way.
  • To shoot.
  • (label) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
  • To tipple; to drink.
  • * Feltham
  • It is less labour to plough than to pot it.
  • (label) To drain.
  • to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc. with perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off
  • To seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
  • Could you please pot the children before sending them to bed?

    Etymology 2

    Possibly a shortened form of Mexican (etyl) , supposedly denoting a drink of wine or brandy in which marijuana buds were steeped.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The drug marijuana.
  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * pothead

    Etymology 3

    (potentiometer) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
  • Derived terms
  • slide pot, a sliding (linear) potentiometer typically designed to be manipulated by a thumb or finger
  • thumb pot, a rotating potentiometer designed to be turned by a thumb or finger
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