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Smoke is a related term of dry.

As a proper noun smoke

is london.

As an acronym dry is

(computing).

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.

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(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.

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, 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.

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Anagrams

* 1000 English basic words

dry

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) drye, drie, dri, drige, dryge, . See also (l), (l), (l).

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(en-adj)

Free from liquid or moisture.

* Addison

The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season.

* Prescott

Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.

(chemistry) Free of water in any state; anhydrous.

Thirsty; needing drink.

* (William Shakespeare)

Give the dry fool drink.

(of an alcoholic beverage) Lacking sugar or low in sugar; not sweet.

Maintaining temperance; void or abstinent from alcoholic beverages.

(of a person or joke) Subtly humorous, yet without mirth.

* (Washington Irving)

He was rather a dry , shrewd kind of body.

(of a scientist or his laboratory) Not working with chemical or biological matter, but, rather, doing computations.

(masonry) Built without mortar; dry-stone.

(of animals) Not giving milk.

Lacking interest or amusement; barren; unembellished.

* (Alexander Pope)

These epistles will become less dry , more susceptible of ornament.

(fine arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or lacking delicate contours and soft transitions of colour.

Synonyms

* (free from liquid or moisture) arid, parched

Antonyms

* (free from liquid or moisture) wet * (abstinent from alcohol) wet * wet

Derived terms

* bone dry * dry as a bone * dry as a dead dingo’s donger * dry cough * dry hole * dry ice * drily * dry run * dryly * dryness * dry spell * drywall * dry weight * like watching paint dry

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Verb

To lose moisture.

The clothes dried on the line.

To remove moisture from.

Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.

(ambitransitive, figurative) To cease or cause to cease.

Their sources of income dried up.

The stream of chatter dried up.

Derived terms

* drier * dryer * dry out * dry up * nondrying