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# smoke

«smoke» in Mova's school dictionary: **The grey, black or white cloud that rises from something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (smoke); verb (smoke, smokes, smoked, smoking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The grey, black or white cloud that rises from something burning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#m1)

2) As a verb, to give off smoke: "The chimney is smoking." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#m2)

3) As a verb, to breathe in smoke from a cigarette or pipe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#m3)

4) As a verb, to keep fish or meat in smoke to give flavour: "smoked salmon". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#m4)

5) When a horse runs very hard, it sweats so much that steam rises from its body, looking like smoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science, smoke is tiny bits of burnt material in the air. In safety: smoke is very dangerous; smoke alarms warn of fire — test them; in a fire, crawl low under smoke and get out; smoking cigarettes harms the lungs and heart and is not for children. Phrases: smoke alarm, smoke detector, no smoking, go up in smoke (fail), where there's smoke there's fire.

### examples

- Smoke came out of the chimney. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x1)
- If there is smoke, crawl low to get out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x2)
- The smoke alarm beeped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x3)
- Smoking is bad for your lungs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x4)
- Smoke rises because it is hot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x5)
- The toast is burning — I can see smoke! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x6)
- Our plans went up in smoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x7)
- This is a no-smoking area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x8)
- The horses ran till they smoked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x9)

### note

"Smoke" (the cloud) is uncountable. Smoke rises, so the cleaner air is near the floor. Breathing other people's cigarette smoke is also harmful.

### In the corpora

- [Vivid example: in a kitchen in Manchester the six o'clock news shows smoke over a city and the word "missiles".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/3/)
- [Taffy plans to draw the carp-mouth in the smoke at the back of the Cave, as a surprise for Daddy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/13/)
- [A firework is a very fast chemical reaction that makes hot gases, light, heat, noise and smoke.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/13/)
- [A smoke alarm senses tiny smoke particles; test it by pressing its button, never with a flame.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/10/)
- [Most people who die in house fires are killed by smoke, not flames, often while asleep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «smoke» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.