Smog vs. Smoke

Smognoun

A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.

Smokenoun

(uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.

Smogverb

(informal) To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.

‘If the car is more than five years old, you'll have to have it smogged before you can register it.’;

Smokenoun

A cigarette.

‘Can I bum a smoke off you?;’; ‘I need to go buy some smokes.’;

Smognoun

air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog

Smokenoun

Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)

‘Hey, you got some smoke?’;

Smog

Smoke fog, or smog for short, is a type of intense air pollution. The word was coined in the early 20th century, and is a contraction (portmanteau) of the words smoke and fog to refer to smoky fog due to its opacity, and odor.

‘smog’;

Smokenoun

An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.

‘I'm going out for a smoke.’;

Smokenoun

A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.

‘The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.’;

Smokenoun

Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.

‘The smoke of controversy.’;

Smokenoun

(uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.

Smokenoun

A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.

Smokenoun

A fastball.

Smokeverb

(transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.

‘He's smoking his pipe.’;

Smokeverb

(intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.

‘Do you smoke?’;

Smokeverb

(intransitive) To give off smoke.

‘My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.’;

Smokeverb

To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.

‘You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.’;

Smokeverb

To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.

Smokeverb

(slang) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.

‘The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.’;

Smokeverb

To beat someone at something.

‘We smoked them at rugby.’;

Smokeverb

To kill, especially with a gun.

‘He got smoked by the mob.’;

Smokeverb

To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.

Smokeverb

To ridicule to the face; to mock.

Smokeverb

To burn; to be kindled; to rage.

Smokeverb

To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.

Smokeverb

To suffer severely; to be punished.

Smokeverb

To punish for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.

Smokeadjective

Of the colour known as smoke.

Smokeadjective

Made of or with smoke.

Smokenoun

The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.

Smokenoun

That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.

Smokenoun

Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.

Smokenoun

The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke.

Smokeverb

To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.

‘Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.’;

Smokeverb

Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.

‘The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke agains. that man.’;

Smokeverb

To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.

‘Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.’;

Smokeverb

To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner.

Smokeverb

To suffer severely; to be punished.

‘Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.’;

Smokeverb

To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.

Smokeverb

To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.

Smokeverb

To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.

‘I aloneSmoked his true person, talked with him.’; ‘He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.’; ‘Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.’;

Smokeverb

To ridicule to the face; to quiz.

Smokeverb

To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar.

Smokeverb

To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; - often with out; as, to smoke a woodchuck out of his burrow.

Smokenoun

a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

Smokenoun

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’;

Smokenoun

an indication of some hidden activity;

‘with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere’;

Smokenoun

something with no concrete substance;

‘his dreams all turned to smoke’; ‘it was just smoke and mirrors’;

Smokenoun

tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder

Smokenoun

street names for marijuana

Smokenoun

the act of smoking tobacco or other substances;

‘he went outside for a smoke’; ‘smoking stinks’;

Smokenoun

(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity;

‘he swung late on the fastball’; ‘he showed batters nothing but smoke’;

Smokeverb

inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes;

‘We never smoked marijuana’; ‘Do you smoke?’;

Smokeverb

emit a cloud of fine particles;

‘The chimney was fuming’;

Smokenoun

a visible suspension of carbon or other particles in air, typically one emitted from a burning substance

‘bonfire smoke’;

Smokenoun

an act of smoking tobacco

‘I'm dying for a smoke’;

Smokenoun

a cigarette or cigar

‘you're going to buy some smokes of your own’;

Smokenoun

a big city, especially London

‘she was offered a job in the Smoke’;

Smokeverb

emit smoke or visible vapour

‘heat the oil until it just smokes’;

Smokeverb

inhale and exhale the smoke of tobacco or a drug

‘Janine was sitting at the kitchen table smoking’; ‘he smoked forty cigarettes a day’;

Smokeverb

treat, fumigate, or cleanse by exposure to smoke.

Smokeverb

cure or preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to smoke

‘smoked salmon’;

Smokeverb

treat (glass) so as to darken it

‘the smoked glass of his lenses’;

Smokeverb

subdue (insects, especially bees) by exposing them to smoke

‘they then smoke the bees until they are stupid’;

Smokeverb

drive someone or something out of a place by using smoke

‘we will fire the roof and smoke him out’;

Smokeverb

force someone to make something known

‘as the press smokes him out on other human rights issues, he will be revealed as a social conservative’;

Smokeverb

kill (someone) by shooting

‘they gotta go smoke this person’;

Smokeverb

defeat overwhelmingly in a fight or contest

‘I got smoked in that fight’;

Smokeverb

make fun of (someone)

‘we baited her and smoked her’;

Smoke

Smoke is a collection of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with the quantity of air that is entrained or otherwise mixed into the mass. It is commonly an unwanted by-product of fires (including stoves, candles, internal combustion engines, oil lamps, and fireplaces), but may also be used for pest control (fumigation), communication (smoke signals), defensive and offensive capabilities in the military (smoke screen), cooking, or smoking (tobacco, cannabis, etc.).