Smoke vs Whiff - What's the difference?
smoke | whiff |
(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.
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(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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(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 waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air
An odour carried briefly through the air
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* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), Chapter 2
A short inhalation of breath, especially of smoke from a cigarette or pipe
* Longfellow
(figurative) a slight sign of something; a glimpse
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(baseball) A strike (from the batter’s perspective)
The megrim, a fish .
To waft.
To sniff.
(baseball) To strike out.
(slang) to attempt to strike and miss, especially being off-balance/vulnerable after missing.
To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away.
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(colloquial) Having a strong or unpleasant odor.
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In transitive terms the difference between smoke and whiff
is that smoke is to inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc while whiff is to sniff.As a proper noun Smoke
is london.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
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 wordswhiff
English
Noun
(en noun)- everyone has always known, widely promiscuous heterosexual men have, as I say, a whiff of the bathhouse about them.
- A whiff of rotten eggs had vanquished the pale clouded yellows which came pelting across the orchard and up Dods Hill and away on to the moor
- The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, / And a scornful laugh laughed he.
- This was a rare whiff of the big-time for a club whose staple diet became top-flight football for so long - the glamour was in short supply, however. Thousands of empty seats and the driving Yorkshire rain saw to that.
Synonyms
* puff * sniff * waftVerb
(en verb)- Old Empedocles, who, when he leaped into Etna, having a dry, sear body, and light, the smoke took him, and whiffed him up into the moon.
Adjective
(en adjective)rec.crafts.metalworking
- Whoo boy that gear oil is pretty whiff . If you actually do this, spend the extra money for the synthetic gear oil as it will not have as bad a sulfur stink as the regular stuff.