Tra từ smoke - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

smoke [smoke smokes smoked smoking] noun, verb BrE [sməʊk] NAmE [smoʊk]
noun
1. uncountable the grey, white or black gas that is produced by sth burning
•cigarette smoke
• Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust.
2. countable, usually singular (informal)an act of smoking a cigarette
• Are you coming outside for a smoke?
more at blow smoke (up sb's ass) at ↑blow _v.

Word Origin:
Old English smoca (noun), smocian (verb), from the Germanic base of smēocan ‘emit smoke’; related to Dutch smook and German Schmauch.

Thesaurus:
smoke noun U
•The room was thick with smoke.
fumes • • exhaust • • smog •
toxic/poisonous smoke/fumes
emit/produce/give off smoke/fumes
a cloud of smoke/fumes

Example Bank:
•Blue smoke curled up from her cigarette.
•Don't blow smoke in my face!
•Hundreds of people die each year as a result of exposure to second-hand smoke.
•I taught myself to blow smoke rings.
•I was taking a smoke break outside.
•She sat there wreathed in cigarette smoke.
•Smoke rose into the sky.
•The bar was thick with stale tobacco smoke.
•The barn went up in smoke.
•The car ahead was belching out black smoke.
•The club had a smoke machine and laser show.
•The witch disappeared in a puff of smoke.
•We sat drinking in a haze of cigarette smoke.
•When the smoke cleared we saw the extent of the damage.
•the smell of stale cigarette smoke on your clothes
•Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust.
•a smoke alarm/detector
Idioms: ↑go up in smoke ▪ ↑no smoke without fire ▪ ↑smoke-filled room
Derived: ↑smoke somebody out

verb
1. transitive, intransitive ~ (sth) to suck smoke from a cigarette, pipe, etc. into your mouth and let it out again
• He was smoking a large cigar.
• How many cigarettes do you smoke a day?
•Do you mind if I smoke?
2. intransitive to use cigarettes, etc. in this way as a habit
• Do you smoke?
• She smokes heavily.
•I've never smoked.
•You're too young to smoke.
•He smokes like a chimney (= a lot).
see also ↑chain-smoke
3. intransitive to produce smoke
•smoking factory chimneys
•the smoking remains of burnt-out cars
• This fireplace smokes badly (= sends smoke into the room instead of up the ↑chimney ).
4. transitive, usually passive ~ sth to preserve meat or fish by hanging it in smoke from wood fires to give it a special taste
•smoked salmon
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English smoca (noun), smocian (verb), from the Germanic base of smēocan ‘emit smoke’; related to Dutch smook and German Schmauch.

Example Bank:
•He has always smoked heavily.
•He smokes like a chimney.
•The ham is cured, then lightly smoked.
•You see kids openly smoking in the streets.

See also: ↑where there's smoke, there's fire