SMOKE


Meaning of SMOKE in English

I.

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ dense , heavy , thick

▪ black , blue , grey/gray , white , etc.

▪ billowing

▪ acrid , choking

▪ stale

the smell of stale cigarette ~ on your clothes

▪ wood

▪ cigar , cigarette , pipe , tobacco

▪ second-hand

Hundreds of people die each year as a result of exposure to second-hand ~ ( = smoke from other people's cigarettes, cigars, etc. ).

… OF SMOKE

▪ cloud , column , haze , pall , plume , puff , spiral , wisp

We sat drinking in a haze of cigarette ~.

The witch disappeared in a puff of ~.

VERB + SMOKE

▪ belch , belch out , blow , emit

The car ahead was belching out black ~.

Don't blow ~ in my face!

▪ exhale , inhale

▪ be wreathed in

She sat there wreathed in cigarette ~.

SMOKE + VERB

▪ belch , billow , come , curl , drift , pour , rise

Blue ~ curled up from her cigarette.

Smoke rose into the sky.

▪ fill sth

▪ hang

A pall of yellow ~ hung over the quarry.

▪ clear

When the ~ cleared we saw the extent of the damage.

SMOKE + NOUN

▪ plume , ring

I taught myself to blow ~ rings.

▪ signal

▪ bomb , grenade

▪ alarm , detector

▪ inhalation

▪ machine

The club had a ~ machine and laser show.

▪ break ( informal , esp. AmE )

I was taking a ~ break outside.

PHRASES

▪ go up in ~

The barn went up in ~.

▪ full of ~

▪ thick with ~

The bar was thick with stale tobacco ~.

II.

verb

1 cigarette, pipe, etc.

ADVERB

▪ heavily

He has always ~d heavily.

▪ openly

You see kids openly smoking in the streets.

PHRASES

▪ ~ like a chimney (= smoke a lot)

He ~s like a chimney.

2 meat/fish/cheese

ADVERB

▪ heavily

▪ lightly

The ham is cured, then lightly ~d.

Smoke is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ fire

Smoke is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ cannabis , ↑ cigar , ↑ cigarette , ↑ cocaine , ↑ dope , ↑ heroin , ↑ marijuana , ↑ opium , ↑ pipe , ↑ tobacco

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .