I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a column/plume of smoke
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He could see a thin black column of smoke rising vertically into the sky.
nom de plume
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
smoke
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But the smoke plumes fascinated her.
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The first wells were set alight in February 1991 and their smoke plumes were clearly visible on satellite images of the region.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the hot-spot plume that created this island has been erupting in this way since long before the Tristanians came.
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The slow-moving plume has moved thousands of yards past the five-acre yard at Bernardo Avenue and Gamble Lane, health officials say.
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There was no wind to bend the plume of black smoke rising from the hospital's incineration chimney.
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These and other observations have led to the obvious speculation that plumes arise at the core-mantle boundary.
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They are extraordinary plumes, and they certainly altered the face of international wildlife conservation.
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To complicate matters was the fact that plumes had been such a fashionable notion.
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Tubeworms grow so as to keep their plumes in the region where the vent water and seawater mix.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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She plumed smoke from her nostrils.
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The door was shut, and no smoke plumed skywards from its grey chimneys.
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The magazine in her hand plumed upwards in a long flame, belching smoke.