Ash vs Smoke - What's the difference?
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The solid remains of a fire.
(chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
(in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
(figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.
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(chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing .
* 1919 , Harry Gordon, Total Soluble and Insoluble Ash in Leather'', published in the ''Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association , W. K. Alsop and W. A. Fox, eds, volume XIV, number 1, on page 253
* 1981 , Hans Weill, Margaret Turner-Warwick, and Claude Lenfant, eds, Occupational Lung Diseases: Research Approaches and Methods'', ''Lung Biology in Health and disease, volume 18 , page 203
* 1989? , Annals of Botany , volume 64, issues 4-6, page 397
* 2010 , S. Suzanne Nielsen, ed, Food Analysis, fourth edition , ISBN 978-1-4419-1477-4, Chapter 12, "Traditional Methods for Mineral Analysis", page 213
To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.
(obsolete, mostly used in the past tense) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.
* 1847 , H., Ashes on Corn.---An Experiment'', published in the ''Genesee Farmer , volume 8, page 281
* 1849 , in a lettre to James Higgins, published in 1850 in The American Farmer , volume V, number 7, pages 227-8
(countable, uncountable) A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus .
(uncountable) The wood of this tree.
The traditional name for the ae ligature (), as used in Old English.
(uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
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, title= (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:
(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.
To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
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, title= To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually.
To give off smoke.
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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.
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(obsolete) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
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* Addison
(slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxix. 20
To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
* Dryden
To suffer severely; to be punished.
* Shakespeare
Of the colour known as smoke.
Made of or with smoke.
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In uncountable terms the difference between ash and smoke
is that ash is the wood of this tree while smoke is a light grey colour/color tinted with blue.As nouns the difference between ash and smoke
is that ash is the solid remains of a fire while smoke is the visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.As verbs the difference between ash and smoke
is that ash is to reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing while smoke is to inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.As proper nouns the difference between ash and smoke
is that ash is {{surname|topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone who lived near ash trees while Smoke is london.As an adjective smoke is
of the colour known as smoke.ash
English
(wikipedia ash)Etymology 1
From (etyl) asshe, from (etyl) ; see it for cognates.Noun
- The audience was more captivated by the growing ash at the end of his cigarette than by his words.
- Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.
- Ashes from the fire floated over the street.
- Ash from the fire floated over the street.
- The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet.
Derived terms
* Ash Wednesday * ash blonde * ash heap * ash hole * ash pan * ash pit * ash stand * ashcan * ashen * ashtray * ashy * the AshesVerb
(es)- I dried the extracted leather very slowly on the steam bath
- The inorganic material left after ashing lung tissue specimens not only contains inhaled particles but also very large quantities of inorganic residue derived from the tissue itself.
- Ash and silica contents of the plant material were determined by classical gravimetric techniques. Tissue samples were ashed in platinum crucibles at about 500 °C, and the ash was treated repeatedly with 6 N hydrochloric acid to remove other mineral impurities.
- A 10-g food sample was dried, then ashed , and analyzed for salt (NaCl) content by the Mohr titration method (AgNO3 + Cl ? AgCl). The weight of the dried sample was 2g, and the ashed sample weight was 0.5g.
- Last spring, after I planted, I took what ashes I have saved during the last year, and put on my corn
- After the corn was planted, upon acre A, I spread broadcast one hundred bushels of lime, (cost $3) and fifty bushels of ashes, (cost $6.)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) asshe, from (etyl) ).Noun
- The ash''' trees are dying off due to emerald '''ash borer.
- The woods planted in ash will see a different mix of species.
Derived terms
* mountain ash * poison ash * prickly ashSynonyms
* (tree) ash treeSee also
* * YggdrasilAnagrams
* * *smoke
English
(wikipedia smoke)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
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- I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke , and went on watching.
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 smokeVerb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=To Edward
- Hard by a cottage chimney smokes .
- Smoking the temple.
- I alone / Smoked his true person, talked with him.
- He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.
- Upon that I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.
- The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man.
- Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
- Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.
Derived terms
(Terms derived from the verb "smoke") * chain-smoke * smoker * smoke out * smokingAdjective
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