different between smoke vs film

English

Alternative forms

• smoak (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: sm?k, IPA^(key): /sm??k/
• (US) enPR: sm?k, IPA^(key): /smo?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca (“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb (see below). Related to Dutch smook (“smoke”), Middle Low German smôk (“smoke”), dialectal German Schmauch (“smoke”).

Noun

smoke (countable and uncountable, plural smokes)

1. (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
2. (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
   • 2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.

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

   Hey, you got some smoke?

4. (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
   • 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII:

     I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke, and went on watching.

5. (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
   • 1974, John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, New York: Knopf, Chapter 6, p. 44,^[1]

     I fed her a lot of smoke about a sheep station outside Adelaide and a big property in the high street with a glass front and ‘Thomas’ in lights. She didn’t believe me.

6. (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.

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

8. (uncountable, slang) bother; problems; hassle

9. (military, uncountable) 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.
10. (baseball, slang) A fastball.
11. (countable) A distinct column of smoke, as indicating a burning area or fire.

Synonyms

• (cigarette): cig, ciggy, cancer stick, coffin nail, fag (British, Australia)

Derived terms

Translations

See smoke/translations § Noun.

Adjective

smoke

1. Of the colour known as smoke.
2. Made of or with smoke.

Translations

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English smoken, from Old English smocian (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), from Proto-West Germanic *smok?n, from Proto-Germanic *smuk?n? (“to smoke”), ablaut derivative of Proto-Germanic *smaukan? (“to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg- (“to smoke”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smookje (“to smoke”), West Frisian smoke (“to smoke”), Low German smöken (“to smoke”), German Low German smoken (“to smoke”). Related also to Old English sm?ocan (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), Bavarian schmuckelen (“to smell bad, reek”).

Verb

smoke (third-person singular simple present smokes, present participle smoking, simple past and past participle smoked)

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

2. (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.

3. (intransitive) To give off smoke.
   • 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro

     Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.

   1. (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
4. (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.

5. (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.

   • Smoking the temple, ful of clothes fayre, / This Emelie with herte debonaire / Hire body wesshe with water of a well […]

7. (transitive, obsolete) To make unclear or blurry.
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Smoke your bits of glass,
     Ye loyal Swine, or her transfiguration
     Will blind your wondering eyes.

8. (intransitive, slang, chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.

9. (US, Canada, New Zealand, slang) To beat someone at something.

10. (transitive, US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
11. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To thrash; to beat.
12. (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
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      Upon that […] I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.

    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

      The squire gave him a good curse at his departure; and then turning to the parson, he cried out, "I smoke it: I smoke it. Tom is certainly the father of this bastard. […]

13. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
14. To burn; to be kindled; to rage.

    • The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man.

15. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.

    • Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.

16. To suffer severely; to be punished.
17. (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
18. (transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.

Synonyms

• (to inhale and exhale smoke from a burning cigarette): have a smoke

Derived terms

Descendants

• Dutch: smoken

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• Mesko, mokes

Middle English

Alternative forms

• smok, smoc

Etymology

From Old English smoca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sm??k(?)/

Noun

smoke (uncountable)

1. smoke

Descendants

• English: smoke
• Yola: smock

References

• “sm?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lm/, [f??m]
  • Rhymes: -?lm
• (North East England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [?f?lm?], [?f?l?m]

Etymology

From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminj? (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian pl?v? (“membrane, scab”), Russian ?????? (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek ????? (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid.

Noun

film (countable and uncountable, plural films)

1. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
2. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
3. A movie.
4. (film, uncountable) Cinema; movies as a group.
5. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.

Synonyms

• (motion picture): movie

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

film (third-person singular simple present films, present participle filming, simple past and past participle filmed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.

2. (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.

Translations

Anagrams

• MILF, milf

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch film, from English film, or borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lm/

Noun

film (plural films)

1. film

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

Noun

film m (indefinite plural filma, definite singular filmi, definite plural filmat)

1. film
2. movie

Declension

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [film]

Noun

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filml?r)

1. film, movie

Declension

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?film/

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. film (a movie)

   Synonym: pel·lícula

Related terms

• filmar
• fílmic

Further reading

• “film” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

film

1. film (clarification of this definition is needed)

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lm/

Noun

film m inan

1. (photography) film
2. movie, film, motion picture

Declension

Derived terms

• filmovat
• filma?

Further reading

• film in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• film in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/, [?film]
• Rhymes: -ilm

Noun

film c (singular definite filmen, plural indefinite film)

1. a movie, a film, motion picture
2. film; a thin layer
3. plural indefinite of film

Inflection

Derived terms

• filme
  • filmning
• filmfotograf
• filmhold
• filmproduktion
• filmskole

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?l?m/, /f?lm/
• Rhymes: -?lm, -?l?m

Noun

film m (plural films, diminutive filmpje n)

1. film, movie

Derived terms

• filmproducent
• filmregisseur
• speelfilm
• tekenfilm
• verfilmen

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

film (genitive filmi, partitive filmi)

1. movie

Declension

Derived terms

• filmindus
• filmilint
• värvifilm

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. movie, film

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Albanian: film
• ? Romanian: film
• ? Turkish: film

Further reading

• “film” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?film]
• Hyphenation: film
• Rhymes: -ilm

Noun

film (plural filmek)

1. (photography) film (a medium used to capture images in a camera)
2. film, movie, motion picture, picture (a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion)
3. film, cinematic art, cinema, cinematography (the art of making films and movies)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• film in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From earlier pilem, from Dutch film, from English film.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): [?f?lm]
• (Betawi) IPA^(key): /?f?l(?)m/, /?pel?m/

Noun

film (first-person possessive filmku, second-person possessive filmmu, third-person possessive filmnya)

1. film,
   1. a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
   2. (photography) a medium used to capture images in a camera.
   3. a movie, a motion picture, a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion.

Alternative forms

• filem (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Affixed terms

Further reading

• “film” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From English film.

Noun

film m (invariable)

1. film, movie

   Synonym: pellicola

Derived terms

See also

• cinema

Further reading

• film in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. (Jersey) movie, film

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmer, definite plural filmene)

1. a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
2. a film (thin material, layer or coating)
3. a film, movie (cinematic production)

Derived terms

Related terms

• filme

Verb

film

1. imperative of filme

References

• “film” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmar, definite plural filmane)

1. a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
2. a film (thin material, layer or coating)
3. a film, movie (cinematic production)

Derived terms

References

• “film” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ilm/

Noun

film m inan (diminutive filmik)

1. film, movie, motion picture
2. film (medium used to capture images in a camera)

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) filmografia, filmowiec
• (adjectives) filmowy, filmograficzny

Further reading

• film in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

film m (plural filmes)

1. Superseded spelling of filme.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, German Film, from English film.

Noun

film n (plural filme)

1. movie, film

Declension

References

• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From English film, from Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminj? (“thin skin, membrane”), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?filim/

Noun

film m (genitive singular film, plural filmichean)

1. film, movie

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

f?lm m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. film (photography)
2. film (motion picture)

Declension

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi?m/

Noun

film m (genitive singular filmu, nominative plural filmy, genitive plural filmov, declension pattern of dub)

1. photographic film
2. movie, motion picture

Declension

Derived terms

• filmár
• filmova?
• filmový
• filmovo
• filmík

Further reading

• film in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Etymology

From English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?film/, [?film]

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. film, motion picture

Further reading

• “film” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

film c

1. film; a thin layer
2. film; medium used to capture images in a camera
3. a movie

Declension

Related terms

References

• film in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/
• IPA^(key): /filim/ (colloquial)

Noun

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmler)

1. a medium used to capture images in a camera
2. a movie

Declension

Uzbek

Etymology

From Russian ????? (fil?m), from English film.

Noun

film (plural filmlar)

1. film, movie, motion picture

   Synonyms: kino, kinofilm, kartina

Declension

Related terms

• filmoskop
• filmoteka