[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/smoke/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [S](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/s/) / smoke # smoke noun (smoke); verb (smoke, smokes, smoked, smoking) «smoke» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. The grey, black or white cloud that rises from something burning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#m1) 2. As a verb, to give off smoke: "The chimney is smoking." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#m2) 3. As a verb, to breathe in smoke from a cigarette or pipe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#m3) 4. As a verb, to keep fish or meat in smoke to give flavour: "smoked salmon". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#m4) 5. When a horse runs very hard, it sweats so much that steam rises from its body, looking like smoke. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#m5) ### In the lessons In science, smoke is tiny bits of burnt material in the air. In safety: smoke is very dangerous; smoke alarms warn of fire — test them; in a fire, crawl low under smoke and get out; smoking cigarettes harms the lungs and heart and is not for children. Phrases: smoke alarm, smoke detector, no smoking, go up in smoke (fail), where there's smoke there's fire. ### Examples - Smoke came out of the chimney. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x1) - If there is smoke, crawl low to get out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x2) - The smoke alarm beeped. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x3) - Smoking is bad for your lungs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x4) - Smoke rises because it is hot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x5) - The toast is burning — I can see smoke! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x6) - Our plans went up in smoke. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x7) - This is a no-smoking area. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x8) - The horses ran till they smoked. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/#x9) ### Note "Smoke" (the cloud) is uncountable. Smoke rises, so the cleaner air is near the floor. Breathing other people's cigarette smoke is also harmful. ## In Jewish tradition In the Torah, to make an offering smoke means to burn it on the altar so that its smoke rises up. In Psalms and Job, smoke is also a picture: God's anger "smokes" against His people, and life passes away like smoke. **Interpretation.** Tradition teaches that the smoke of offerings rose to God as a pleasing "savour." The tradition reads smoking anger as a poet's picture of God's strong displeasure, and fading like smoke as the shortness of human life. ### Examples - And the fat of the sin-offering shall he make smoke upon the altar. (Torah LEV.16.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/smoke/#x1) - And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly made to smoke; it shall not be eaten. (Torah LEV.6.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/smoke/#x2) - And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he made the fat smoke upon the altar. (Torah LEV.9.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/smoke/#x3) - Why doth Thine anger smoke against the flock of Thy pasture? (Writings PSA.74.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/smoke/#x4) - Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes. (Writings JOB.41.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/smoke/#x5) - For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth. (Writings PSA.102.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/smoke/#x6) ### Note "Smoke" (the cloud) is uncountable. Smoke rises, so the cleaner air is near the floor. Breathing other people's cigarette smoke is also harmful. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «smoke» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smoke/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«smoke» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/smoke.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «smoke» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/smoke/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«smoke» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/smoke.html) on Mova free.