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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

You shouldn't smoke so much.      Tu ne devrais pas fumer autant. "Do you mind if I smoke?" "Not at all. Go ahead."      « Cela vous dérange-t-il que je fume ? » « Pas du tout. Allez-y. » The smoke from the forest fire was seen from very far away.      On voyait la fumée de l'incendie de forêt de très loin. Someone told me that every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes away from your life.      Quelqu'un m'a dit que chaque cigarette que tu fumes te retire sept minutes de la vie. There is no fire without smoke.      Pas de fumée sans feu.

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