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SMOKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of smoking tobacco or other substances
Example:
smoking stinks
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("smoking" 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 "smoking"):
drag; puff; pull (a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smoking"):
puffing (blowing tobacco smoke out into the air)
Derivation:
smoke (inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes)
Sense 2
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 ("smoking" is a kind of...):
evaporation; vapor; vaporisation; vaporization; vapour (the process of becoming a vapor)
Derivation:
smoke (emit a cloud of fine particles)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Emitting smoke in great volume
Example:
a smoking fireplace
Classified under:
Similar:
smoky (marked by or emitting or filled with smoke)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb smoke
Context examples:
Not smoking can prevent or delay lung symptoms.
(Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
And even your smoking and your swearing—they are part of you and I will love you for them, too.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
In fact, observational studies have shown that stress could be as potent a risk factor for heart disease as high blood pressure and smoking.
(Biological Link Found Between Stress, Heart Disease, VOA)
Researchers have discovered a mechanism in rats that links cigarette smoking and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
(Nicotine addiction linked to diabetes through a DNA-regulating gene in animal models, National Institutes of Health)
People at high genetic risk of stroke can still reduce their chance of having a stroke by sticking to a healthy lifestyle, in particular stopping smoking and not being overweight.
(A healthy lifestyle cuts stroke risk, irrespective of genetic risk, University of Cambridge)
The scientists then analyzed this information to quantify what kind of turbulence exists in the region, which provided the final smoking gun of an HFA.
(Messenger spots giant space weather effects at Mercury, NASA)
A person who was not smoking at the time of the interview and has smoked less than 100 cigarettes in their life.
(Never Smoker, NCI Thesaurus)
A drug used to help people stop smoking by acting the same way nicotine acts in the brain.
(Chantix, NCI Dictionary)
One pack-year is smoking 20 cigarettes a day for one year.
(Pack year, NCI Thesaurus)
