smoke
a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,159 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 15,908 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.008% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas also: fume
- a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion also: smoking the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles
- an indication of some hidden activity with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere
- something with no concrete substance his dreams all turned to smokeit was just smoke and mirrors
- tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder also: roll of tobacco
- street names for marijuana also: pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage
smoke in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Jack-tars! pshaw! they are regular smoke jacks on board a steamer!
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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They saw a great ship sail slowly by, making a cloud of smoke.
The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1
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His whole attention seemed fixed upon the curling wreath of blue smoke which hung between us.
The Betrayal · E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim · Chapter 1
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Through a ragged rift aslant in the cannonade’s smoke An iron-clad reveals her repellent broadside Bodily intact.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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It was horrible--the man dying by slow torture in the midst of smoke from his own burning flesh.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1