英语词汇“smoke”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

smoke

(smoʊk )

Word forms: smokes , smoking , smoked

1. uncountable noun B1

Smoke consists of gas and small bits of solid material that are sent into the air when something burns.

A cloud of black smoke blew over the city.

The air was thick with smoke.

Synonyms: fumes

2. verb

If something is smoking, smoke is coming from it.

The chimney was smoking fiercely. [VERB]

...a pile of smoking rubble. [VERB-ing]

3. verb A1

When someone smokes a cigarette, cigar, or pipe, they suck the smoke from it into their mouth and blow it out again. If you smoke, you regularly smoke cigarettes, cigars, or a pipe.

He was sitting alone, smoking a big cigar. [VERB noun]

It's not easy to quit smoking cigarettes. [VERB noun]

Do you smoke? [VERB]

Smoke is also a noun.

Someone came out for a smoke.

smoker Word forms: smokers countable noun

He was not a heavy smoker.

4. verb [usually passive]

If fish or meat is smoked, it is hung over burning wood so that the smoke preserves it and gives it a special flavour.

...the grid where the fish were being smoked. [be VERB-ed]

...smoked bacon. [VERB-ed]

5. See also smoked, smoking

6. there's no smoke without fire phrase

If someone says there's no smoke without fire or where there's smoke there's fire, they mean that there are rumours or signs that something is true so it must be at least partly true.

7. go up in smoke phrase

If something goes up in smoke, it is destroyed by fire.

More than 900 years of British history went up in smoke in the Great Fire of Windsor.

8. go up in smoke phrase

If something that is very important to you goes up in smoke, it fails or ends without anything being achieved.

Their dreams went up in smoke after the collapse of their travel agency.

Synonyms: come to nothing, vanish, be shattered, be ruined

Phrasal verbs:

smoke out

phrasal verb

If you smoke out someone who is hiding, you discover them and make them publicly known.

The committee have tried dozens of different ways to smoke him out. [VERB noun PARTICLE]

...technology to smoke out tax evaders. [VERB PARTICLE noun]

Quotations:

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awakeMark Twain70th birthday speech

Idioms:

put that in your pipe and smoke it

said to tell someone that although they may dislike or disagree with something you have just said, they must accept that it is a fact or true

As for rules, the only person who makes rules in this house is me. So you can tell Miss Underwood from me: she can put that in her pipe and smoke it.

blow smoke [mainly US]

to deliberately confuse or mislead someone in order to deceive them

It was time to see if Sam was just blowing smoke or if he actually had some useful information for us.

go up in smoke

to fail or end without anything being achieved

But with just eight minutes to go, their dreams of glory went up in smoke. Liverpool scored twice within minutes and went three-two ahead.

send out smoke signals

to give an indication of your views or intentions, often in an unclear or vague form which then needs to be interpreted

I'll tell you exactly what I think we ought to do, but what kind of smoke signals ought to be sent by the White House is up to them to figure out.

smoke and mirrors [mainly US]

things which are intended to deceive or confuse people

The president claims that his economic plan is free of the smoke and mirrors that have characterized earlier budget plans.

there's no smoke without fire

said to mean that an unpleasant rumour or unlikely story is likely to be at least partly true, as otherwise nobody would be talking about it

I was incredibly upset by the story. It was the main item on the news and people were bound to think there was no smoke without fire.

Collocations:

smoke trails

In others the smoke trails of rockets used to create a calibration backdrop can be seen.