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smoke
1. n. Fumée.
Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. (Bleak House - Charles Dickens)
La fumée tombe des tuyaux de cheminée, bruine molle et noire, traversée de petites pelotes de suie qu'on prendrait pour des flocons de neige portant le deuil du soleil.
2. n. (Canada) (Normandie) Fumée.
3. n. (Argot) (Cigarette) Clope.
4. v. Fumer.
Let's smoke a cigarette.
5. v. Fumer, boucaner.
Let's smoke the meat, to preserve it.
anglais > anglais
smoke
1. n. The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
2. n. (colloquial) A cigarette.
Can I bum a smoke off you?;  I need to go buy some smokes.
3. n. (colloquial) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
Hey, you got some smoke?
4. n. (colloquial, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
I'm going out for a smoke.
5. n. (figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
6. n. (figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
The smoke of controversy.
7. n. A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
(color panel, D6E2E2)
8. n. (military) 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
9. n. (baseball, slang) A fastball.
10. v. To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
He's smoking his pipe.
11. v. (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
Do you smoke?
12. v. (intransitive) To give off smoke.
My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.
13. v. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.
14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.
15. v. (US, Canada NZ slang) To beat someone at something.
We smoked them at rugby.
16. v. (US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
He got smoked by the mob.
17. v. (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
18. v. (slang) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
19. v. To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
20. v. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
21. v. To suffer severely; to be punished.
22. v. (transitive, US military slang) To punish for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
23. adj. Of the colour known as smoke.
24. adj. Made of or with smoke.
français > anglais
fumée
1. adj. feminine singular of fumé
truite fumée - Smoked trout
2. Participle. feminine singular of fumé
3. n-f. smoke
4. n-f. steam
5. n-f. spoor (of game animals)

Exemples de phrases

My father doesn't just smoke, he drinks too.      Mon père ne fait pas que fumer, il boit aussi. "Done!" says the angel, and disappears in a cloud of smoke and a bolt of lightning.      "Exaucé!" dit l'ange, et il disparut en un éclair dans un nuage de fumée. You may smoke in that room, but you mustn't smoke in this room.      Vous pouvez fumer dans cette pièce-là, mais non dans celle-ci. A pregnant woman shouldn't smoke.      Une femme enceinte ne devrait pas fumer. I don't smoke or drink. I just do pills.      Je ne fume ni ne bois pas. Je suis juste sous médicaments.

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