(~s, smoking, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Smoke consists of gas and small bits of solid material that are sent into the air when something burns.
A cloud of black ~ blew over the city...
The air was thick with cigarette ~.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If something is smoking, ~ is coming from it.
The chimney was smoking fiercely.
...a pile of smoking rubble.
VERB: V, V-ing
3.
When someone ~s a cigarette, cigar, or pipe, they suck the ~ from it into their mouth and blow it out again. If you ~, you regularly ~ cigarettes, cigars, or a pipe.
He was sitting alone, smoking a big cigar...
Do you ~?
VERB: V n, V
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Smoke is also a noun.
Someone came out for a ~.
N-SING: a N
~r (~rs)
He was not a heavy ~r.
N-COUNT
4.
If fish or meat is ~d, it is hung over burning wood so that the ~ preserves it and gives it a special flavour.
...the grid where the fish were being ~d.
...~d bacon.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed, V-ed
5.
see also ~d , smoking
6.
If someone says there’s no ~ without fire or where there’s ~ there’s fire, they mean that there are rumours or signs that something is true so it must be at least partly true.
PHRASE
7.
If something goes up in ~, it is destroyed by fire.
More than 900 years of British history went up in ~ in the Great Fire of Windsor.
PHRASE: V inflects
8.
If something that is very important to you goes up in ~, it fails or ends without anything being achieved.
Their dreams went up in ~ after the collapse of their travel agency.
PHRASE: V inflects