different between smoke vs salt
smoke
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)
- (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
- 2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.
- 2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.
- (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- Hey, you got some smoke?
- (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.
- 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII:
- (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.
- 1974, John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, New York: Knopf, Chapter 6, p. 44,[1]
- (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
- (uncountable, slang) bother; problems; hassle
- (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.
- (baseball, slang) A fastball.
- (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
- Of the colour known as smoke.
- 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)
- (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- (intransitive) To give off smoke.
- 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro
- Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.
- (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro
- (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
- (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 […]
- (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.
- Smoke your bits of glass,
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- (intransitive, slang, chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
- (US, Canada, New Zealand, slang) To beat someone at something.
- (transitive, US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
- (transitive, slang, obsolete) To thrash; to beat.
- (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
- Template:RQ:Addison Freeloader
- 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. […]
- Template:RQ:Addison Freeloader
- (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man.
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
- (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)
- smoke
Descendants
- English: smoke
- Yola: smock
References
- “sm?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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salt
English
Etymology
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-Germanic *salt? (compare Dutch zout, German Salz, Norwegian Bokmål salt and Swedish salt), from Proto-Indo-European *séh?ls (“salt”) (compare Welsh halen, Irish salann, Latin sal, Russian ???? (sol?), Ancient Greek ??? (háls), Albanian ngjelmë (“salty, savory”), Old Armenian ?? (a?), Tocharian A s?le, Sanskrit ???? (salila)). Doublet of sal.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: s?lt, IPA(key): /s?lt/
- (Conservative RP) enPR: sôlt, IPA(key): /s??lt/
- (US) enPR: sôlt, sält, IPA(key): /s?lt/, /s?lt/
- (General New Zealand) enPR: s?lt, IPA(key): /s?lt/, [s???t]
- Rhymes: -?lt
Noun
salt (countable and uncountable, plural salts)
- A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
- c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
- Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]
- c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
- (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 1
- I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 1
- (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
- (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
- Attic salt
- (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
- I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts.
- (figuratively) Skepticism and common sense.
- Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.
- (Internet slang) Indignation; outrage; arguing.
- There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
- (Britain, historical) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
Synonyms
- sal (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
- salary
Translations
See salt/translations § Noun.
Adjective
salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)
- Salty; salted.
- Saline.
- Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
- The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
- (figuratively, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 4,[1]
- I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me;
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 4,[1]
- (figuratively, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
- 1653, Thomas Urquhart (translator), The First Book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Book 2, Chapter 22, p. 153,[2]
- And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their accesse to her, and every way keeping such a coyle with her, as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
- 1653, Thomas Urquhart (translator), The First Book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Book 2, Chapter 22, p. 153,[2]
- (colloquial, archaic) Costly; expensive.
Derived terms
- saltness
- salt spray
Translations
Verb
salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)
- (transitive) To add salt to.
- to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
- (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- The brine begins to salt.
- To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
- To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
- (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.
- (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
- 1964, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (page 417)
- The composition of the fallout can also be changed by "salting" the weapon to be detonated. This consists in the inclusion of significant quantities of certain elements, possibly enriched in specific isotopes, for the purpose of producing induced radioactivity. There are several reasons why a weapon might be salted.
- 1964, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (page 417)
- (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
- They salted the document with arcane language.
- 1993, The Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy (page 154)
- These were pamphlets, often written in various Jewish vernaculars, describing the location of the Holy sites and salting the accounts with mythic and homiletical materials.
- (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- To render a thing useless.
- (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
- In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas.
- (wiki) to lock a page so it cannot be created
- (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
Antonyms
- (add salt): desalt
Derived terms
- desalt
- salt away
Translations
Anagrams
- Alts, LTAs, TLAs, alts, last, lats, slat
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan sal, from Latin saltus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?salt/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?sal/
Noun
salt m (plural salts)
- jump
- waterfall
Related terms
- saltar
Further reading
- “salt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Crimean Gothic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *salt?, from Proto-Indo-European *seh?l-.
Noun
salt
- salt
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
- Salt. Sal.
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
Czech
Noun
salt
- genitive plural of salto
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse saltr (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh?l-, *séh?ls, *sáls.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /salt/, [sal?d?]
Adjective
salt
- salty, salt
Inflection
Etymology 2
From Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *salt?, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?l-, *séh?ls. Compare Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish salt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /salt/, [sal?d?]
Noun
salt n (singular definite saltet, plural indefinite salte)
- salt
Inflection
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
salt
- imperative of salte
Related terms
- salte
- mineralsalt
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sal?t]
Etymology 1
From Old Norse salt, from Proto-Germanic *salt?, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?l-, *séh?ls, *sáls.
Noun
salt n (genitive singular salts, plural sølt)
- salt
Declension
Related terms
- pipar
- edikur
- sinnopur
- olivinolja
- epli
- pannukøka
- rosina
- sukur
- drúvusukur
- vaniljusukur
- súltusukur
- siropur
Etymology 2
From Old Norse saltr (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh?l-, *séh?ls, *sáls.
Adjective
salt
- salty
Declension
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin saltus.
Noun
salt m (plural salts)
- jump, leap, spring
Related terms
- saltâ
Gothic
Romanization
salt
- Romanization of ????????????????
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse salt, from Proto-Germanic *salt?, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?l-, *séh?ls, *sáls.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sal?t/
- Rhymes: -al?t
Noun
salt n (genitive singular salts, nominative plural sölt)
- salt
- Geturðu rétt mér saltið?
- Can you pass me the salt?
- Geturðu rétt mér saltið?
Declension
Derived terms
- salta
- saltstaukur
- saltsýra
- vega salt
Adjective
salt
- positive degree neuter singular nominative/accusative of saltur
Latvian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *?el- (“cold; hot”). Cognates include Lithuanian šálti.
Pronunciation
Verb
salt (intr., 1st conj., pres. salstu, salsti, salst, past salu)
- to freeze
Declension
Middle English
Alternative forms
- selt, sealt, salte, zalt, saulte, sawt, scealte
Etymology
From Old English sealt, from Proto-Germanic *salt? (noun) and Proto-Germanic *saltaz (adjective).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /salt/, /s?lt/
Noun
salt (uncountable)
- salt (sodium chloride)
- Something containing or for storing salt
- Any of a group of crystalline compounds that resemble salt
Related terms
- salten
- salthous
Descendants
- English: salt
- Scots: sawt, salt, saut
References
- “salt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
Adjective
salt (plural and weak singular salte, comparative salter, superlative saltest)
- salty, tasting of salt
- salted, coated in salt
Descendants
- English: salt
- Scots: sawt, salt, saut
References
- “salt, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse saltr.
Adjective
salt (neuter singular salt, definite singular and plural salte, comparative saltere, indefinite superlative saltest, definite superlative salteste)
- salty, salt, salted
- salte peanøtter - salted peanuts
Etymology 2
From Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *salt?, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?l-, *séh?ls. Compare Danish, Swedish and Icelandic salt.
Noun
salt n (definite singular saltet, indefinite plural salter, definite plural salta or saltene)
- salt
Etymology 3
Verb
salt
- imperative of salte
Derived terms
References
- “salt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?lt/
Etymology 1
From Old Norse saltr.
Adjective
salt (neuter singular salt, definite singular and plural salte, comparative saltare, indefinite superlative saltast, definite superlative saltaste)
- salty, salt, salted
Etymology 2
From Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *salt?, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?l-, *séh?ls.
Noun
salt n (definite singular saltet, indefinite plural salt, definite plural salta)
- salt
Derived terms
References
- “salt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse salt.
Noun
salt n
- salt
Descendants
- Danish: salt
Etymology 2
From Old Norse saltr.
Adjective
salt
- salty, salt
Descendants
- Danish: salt
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *salt? (“salt”), *saltaz (“salty, salted”).
Noun
salt n
- salt
Inflection
Descendants
- North Frisian: saalt
- Saterland Frisian: Soalt
- West Frisian: sâlt
Adjective
salt
- salty, salted
Descendants
- West Frisian: sâlt
Old Norse
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *salt?.
Noun
salt n
- salt
Declension
Related terms
- salta (“to salt”)
- saltr (“salty”)
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Adjective
salt
- strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of saltr (“salty”)
References
- salt in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin saltus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?salt/
Noun
salt n (plural salturi)
- leap
- saltation
Declension
Related terms
- s?lta
- s?ltare
- s?ltat
- s?lt?re?
- s?lt?tor
- s?lt?tur?
Verb
salt
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of s?lta
Swedish
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish salter, from Old Norse saltr, from Proto-Germanic *saltaz, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?l-, *séh?ls, *sáls.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /salt/
Adjective
salt (comparative saltare, superlative saltast)
- salty
Declension
Etymology 2
From Old Swedish salt, from Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *salt?, from Proto-Indo-European *séh?l-, *séh?ls. Compare Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian salt.
Noun
salt n
- salt
- (uncountable) sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
- (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
Declension
Synonyms
- bordssalt
Derived terms
- bergsalt
- havssalt
- medelhavssalt
- saltlake
- saltkristall
- saltstänkt
- saltsyra
Related terms
- salta
- sälta
Anagrams
- last, lats, stal, tals
Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *sal- (“unleash”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa?t/
Adverb
salt
- exclusively, only, just, absolute
- Synonyms: bir, sade, sadece, s?rf, tek, yaln?z, yaln?zca
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