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a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion; "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 smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors" roll of tobacco: tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder pot: street names for marijuana the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks" inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?" fastball: (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke" fume: emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming"
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1. Foreign particulate matter in the atmosphere resulting from combustion processes; a type of lithometeor. When smoke is present, the disk of the sun at sunrise and sunset appears very red, and during the daytime has a reddish tinge. Smoke that has come a great distance from its source, such as from forest fires, usually has a light grayish or bluish color and is evenly distributed in the upper air. See smog, haze. 2. Applied to some types of fog. See sea smoke.
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A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground and aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
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A suspension in the air of small particles produced by combustion. A transition to haze may occur when smoke particles have traveled a great distance (25 to 100 miles or more) and when the larger particles have settled out and the remaining particles have become widely scattered through the atmosphere.
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to preserve meat or fish by slowly drying in the smoke of a fragrant hard-wood fire.
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