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单词 smoke
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smokenoun

uk/sməʊk/us/smoʊk/

smoke noun (GREY GAS)

B1 [ U ] the grey, black, or white mixture of gas and very small pieces of carbon that is produced when something burns:

cigarette smoke
a tiny smoke-filled room
The fire produced a pall (= large mass) of smoke visible 20 miles away.
Plumes of smoke billowed from the chimney.
She leaned back thoughtfully and blew a puff of (= a small amount of) smoke into the air.
go up in smoke

to be destroyed by burning:

Because of the fire, hundreds of houses went up in smoke.

Something that goes up in smoke fails to produce the result that was wanted:

When the business went bankrupt, 20 years of hard work went up in smoke.

More examples

  • The smoke made me cough.
  • The alarm should go off automatically as soon as smoke is detected.
  • I saw her through a haze of cigarette smoke.
  • I heard a loud bang and then saw black smoke.
  • Breathing in other people's cigarette smoke is bad for you .

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Products of fire

  • ash
  • cinder
  • clinker
  • ember
  • fumes
  • smokeless
  • smoky
  • smut
  • soot

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Burning, burnt & on fire
Failing and doing badly

smoke noun (CIGARETTE)

[ S ] the act of smoking a cigarette:

I really enjoy a smoke at the end of a meal.

[ C ] informal a cigarette:

Would you buy me some smokes while you're out?

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Tobacco & smoking

  • baccy
  • butt
  • cheroot
  • cig
  • cigarette butt
  • cigarette paper
  • e-cigarette
  • light (sth) up
  • nicotine
  • nicotine patch
  • non-smoker
  • non-smoking
  • pipe
  • roll-your-own
  • second-hand smoke
  • smoker
  • smoking
  • stub
  • tar
  • tobacconist

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smoke noun (CITY)

the (big) smoke UK and Australian English informal

any large city, especially London, Sydney, or Melbourne:

He was a young lad of 16 when he first came to the big smoke.

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Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general)

  • aerotropolis
  • backwater
  • bedroom community
  • Cantabrigian
  • capital
  • conurbation
  • county borough
  • dormitory town
  • ghost town
  • Greater
  • hill station
  • hometown
  • megacity
  • metropolis
  • one-horse town
  • port
  • settlement
  • small-town
  • town
  • urbanite

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Idiom(s)

there's no smoke without fire

smokeverb

uk/sməʊk/us/smoʊk/

smoke verb (BREATHE SMOKE)

A1 [ I or T ] to breathe smoke into the mouth and usually lungs from a cigarette, pipe, etc.:

Do you mind if I smoke?
I used to smoke a packet of cigarettes a day.

More examples

  • Fewer people smoke these days than used to.
  • In the interests of safety, please do not smoke.
  • She doesn't drink or smoke and I'm sure she'll outlive us all.
  • She can smoke - I don't have a problem with that.
  • He used to smoke 40 cigarettes a day.

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Tobacco & smoking

  • baccy
  • butt
  • cheroot
  • cig
  • cigarette butt
  • cigarette paper
  • e-cigarette
  • light (sth) up
  • nicotine
  • nicotine patch
  • non-smoker
  • non-smoking
  • pipe
  • roll-your-own
  • second-hand smoke
  • smoker
  • smoking
  • stub
  • tar
  • tobacconist

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smoke verb (GREY GAS)

[ I ] to produce smoke as a result of industrial activity or of something such as an electrical fault:

The skyline is dominated by smoking factory chimneys.
Suddenly the TV went blank and started smoking.

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Burning, burnt & on fire

  • ablaze
  • alight
  • blaze
  • burned out
  • burnt
  • burnt out
  • burst
  • char
  • flame
  • flammable
  • forest fire
  • frazzled
  • go up in flames idiom
  • incinerate
  • inextinguishable
  • scald
  • sear
  • singe
  • smolder
  • spontaneous combustion

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smoke verb (PRESERVE)

[ T ] to preserve meat, fish, or cheese using smoke from burning wood:

People in Egypt were salting, drying, and smoking fish and meat 6,000 years ago.

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Preserving & storing food

  • bin
  • bread basket
  • bread bin
  • brine
  • caddy
  • defrost
  • dried
  • foil
  • food technology
  • freeze
  • freeze-dry
  • glacé
  • preserve
  • processed
  • reconstitute
  • refrigerate
  • saltpetre
  • souse
  • Tupperware
  • vacuum-packed

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Phrasal verb(s)

smoke sb/sth out
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