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SMOKE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

Example:

he showed batters nothing but smoke

Synonyms:

bullet; fastball; heater; hummer; smoke

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

delivery; pitch ((baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smoke"):

slider (a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of smoking tobacco or other substances

Example:

smoking stinks

Synonyms:

smoke; smoking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

breathing; external respiration; respiration; ventilation (the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation)

Meronyms (parts of "smoke"):

drag; puff; pull (a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smoke"):

puffing (blowing tobacco smoke out into the air)

Derivation:

smoke (inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Street names for marijuana

Synonyms:

dope; gage; grass; green goddess; locoweed; Mary Jane; pot; sens; sess; skunk; smoke; weed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

cannabis; ganja; marihuana; marijuana (the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect)

Derivation:

smoke (inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder

Synonyms:

roll of tobacco; smoke

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

baccy; tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smoke"):

cigar (a roll of tobacco for smoking)

butt; cigaret; cigarette; coffin nail; fag (finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking)

Derivation:

smoke (inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Something with no concrete substance

Example:

it was just smoke and mirrors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

insubstantiality (lacking substance or reality)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 6

Meaning:

An indication of some hidden activity

Example:

with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

indicant; indication (something that serves to indicate or suggest)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

Synonyms:

fume; smoke

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

aerosol (a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smoke"):

gun smoke (smoke created by the firing of guns)

smother (a stifling cloud of smoke)

Derivation:

smoke (emit a cloud of fine particles)

smoky (marked by or emitting or filled with smoke)

Sense 8

Meaning:

A hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion

Example:

the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles

Synonyms:

smoke; smoking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("smoke" is a kind of...):

evaporation; vapor; vaporisation; vaporization; vapour (the process of becoming a vapor)

Derivation:

smoke (emit a cloud of fine particles)

smoky (marked by or emitting or filled with smoke)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes

Example:

Do you smoke?

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "smoke" is one way to...):

habituate; use (take or consume (regularly or habitually))

"Smoke" entails doing...:

breathe out; exhale; expire (expel air)

breathe in; inhale; inspire (draw in (air))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "smoke"):

chain-smoke (smoke one cigarette after another; light one cigarette from the preceding one)

puff; whiff (smoke and exhale strongly)

inhale (draw deep into the lungs in by breathing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

smoke (the act of smoking tobacco or other substances)

smoke (street names for marijuana)

smoke (tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder)

smoker (a person who smokes tobacco)

smoking (the act of smoking tobacco or other substances)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Emit a cloud of fine particles

Example:

The chimney was fuming

Synonyms:

fume; smoke

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "smoke" is one way to...):

emit; give off; give out (give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

smoke (a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas)

smoke; smoking (a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Exposure to tobacco smoke products among individuals who do not smoke.

(Passive Smoke Exposure, NCI Thesaurus)

Not smoking and avoiding alcohol can help.

(Peptic Ulcer, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

It is also important to not smoke or drink alcohol.

(Pancreatitis, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

One pack-year is smoking 20 cigarettes a day for one year.

(Pack year, NCI Thesaurus)

It is calculated by multiplying the number of packs of cigarettes smoked per day by the number of years the person has smoked.

(Pack year, NCI Dictionary)

EXAMPLE(S): 2 months is the focalDuration for a question such as "Have you smoked in the last 2 months?".

(Performed Observation Focal Duration, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The main risk factor for PAD is smoking.

(Peripheral Arterial Disease, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Then you passed out and closed the window, standing on the lawn outside smoking a cigar and watching what occurred.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is smoke yonder upon the right.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And then there is a chimney which is generally smoking; so somebody must live there.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)