Smoke vs Waste - What's the difference?
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(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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, chapter=1 A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
A large tract of uncultivated land.
A vast expanse of water.
A disused mine or part of one.
The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
Gradual loss or decay.
A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
(rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste"
Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
Excrement
(legal) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
Uncultivated, uninhabited.
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Barren; desert.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 255:
*:For centuries the shrine at Mecca had been of merely local importance, far outshone by the Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, whose cult Christians had in good measure renewed by their pilgrimage in honour of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, while leaving the actual site of the Jerusalem Temple dishonoured and waste .
Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
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Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
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*:His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.
Unfortunate; disappointing. (rfex)
To devastate or destroy.
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* Dryden
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
* Bible, Numbers xiv. 33
* Robertson
To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
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Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
* Bible, 1 Kings xvii. 14
(legal) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
Smoke is a related term of waste.
As a proper noun smoke
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(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
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 *Anagrams
* 1000 English basic wordswaste
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
- That was a waste of time
- Her life seemed a waste
- The cage was littered with animal waste
Derived terms
* ameliorative waste * cotton waste * industrial waste * lay waste * nuclear waste * permissive waste * radioactive waste * rock waste * silk waste * toxic waste * trade waste * voluntary waste * wasteful * wasteless * waste of space * waste of time * waste pipe * wastyEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
Usage notes
Same meanings as wasted.Derived terms
* affirmative waste * ameliorative waste * go to waste * lay waste * lie waste * nonwasted * nonwasting * permissive waste * run to waste * unwasted * voluntary waste * waste pipe * wasteland * wasteness * wastrifeEtymology 3
From (etyl) .Verb
(wast)- Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted , / Art made a mirror to behold my plight.
- The Tiber / Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
- until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness
- Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- E. Kay (1822-1897), afterwards Lord Justice of Appeal, had rooms on the same staircase as myself, and we wasted a great deal of time together, both in term and in my second summer vacation.'' 1909. Francis Galton, ''Memories of my life , p. 69.
- The barrel of meal shall not waste .
