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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.

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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

Etymology

From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”). Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.

An alternative etymology derives Old French escren from Old Dutch *skrank (“barrier”) (compare German Schrank (“cupboard”), Schranke (“fence”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: skr?n, IPA^(key): /sk?i?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

screen (plural screens)

1. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
2. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
   1. (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
   2. (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects

   3. (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
3. (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
   1. (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
4. Various forms or formats of information display
   1. The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
   2. The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
      • 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems” (song):

   3. One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
      • 1988, Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988

      • 1989, Compute (volume 11, page 51)

   4. (computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.

5. Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
   1. (American football) Short for screen pass.
   2. (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

      Synonym: pick

6. (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
7. (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
8. (architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
9. (Scotland, archaic) A large scarf.

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Verb

screen (third-person singular simple present screens, present participle screening, simple past and past participle screened)

1. To filter by passing through a screen.

   Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.

2. To shelter or conceal.
3. To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing.

   The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.

4. (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).

   The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.

5. To fit with a screen.

   We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.

6. (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
7. (molecular biology) To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
8. (basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

   Synonym: pick

9. To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
   • 1987 April 7, Associated Press (story title as printed in New York Times[1])

     A Phone to Screen Calls

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Further reading

• screen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• screen in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• screen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• censer, scener, scerne, secern