Parola del giorno in inglese

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inglese > italiano
smoke
1. verb. fumare
2. verb. affumicare
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4. sost. fumo
5. sost. *{{it}}:fumo
inglese > inglese
smoke
1. subst. The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
2. subst. (colloquial) A cigarette.
Can I bum a smoke off you?;  I need to go buy some smokes.
3. subst. (colloquial) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
Hey, you got some smoke?
4. subst. (colloquial, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
I'm going out for a smoke.
5. subst. (figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
6. subst. (figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
The smoke of controversy.
7. subst. A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
(color panel, D6E2E2)
8. subst. (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. subst. (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.
italiano > inglese
fumo
1. subst. smoke
2. subst. smudge
3. subst. (slang) hashish

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Esempi d'uso

You may not smoke in this room.      Non si può fumare in questa stanza. That guy standing in the corner over there can finish a smoke in less than a minute.      Quel tizio in piedi in un angolo laggiù riesce a finire una sigaretta in meno di un minuto. Open the windows. There's too much smoke in here.      Apri le finestre. C'è troppo fumo qui dentro. You had better not smoke while on duty.      Avresti fatto meglio a non fumare mentre eri in servizio. The room was filled with cigarette smoke.      La stanza era piena di fumo di sigarette.

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