word-vault/dist/data/cards/sm/smoke.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "smoke",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the grey, white or black gas that is produced by something burning",
            "sensetop": "smoke from something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**cigarette/tobacco smoke**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Plumes of black smoke** could be seen rising from the area."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The explosion sent a huge **cloud of smoke** into the sky."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His eyes were smarting from the smoke from the fire.",
                    "contextForm": "smoke from something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The smoke from their cigarettes curled upwards."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The majority of people who die in fires die of **smoke inhalation**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Check your **smoke detectors** for dead batteries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The witch disappeared in **a puff of smoke**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can definitely smell smoke."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Blue smoke curled up from her cigarette."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't blow smoke in my face!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hundreds of people die each year as a result of exposure to second-hand smoke."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I taught myself to blow smoke rings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The club had a smoke machine and laser show."
                },
                {
                    "text": "When the smoke cleared we saw the extent of the damage."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["The environment"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["dense", "heavy", "thick"],
                "… of smoke": ["cloud", "column", "haze"],
                "verb + smoke": ["belch", "belch out", "blow"],
                "smoke + verb": ["belch", "billow", "come"],
                "smoke + noun": ["plume", "ring", "signal"],
                "phrases": ["go up in smoke", "full of smoke", "thick with smoke"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an act of smoking a cigarette",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Are you coming outside for a smoke?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's in the back garden having a smoke."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Social issues"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "London, or another large city",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to try to trick somebody or lie to somebody, particularly by saying something is better than it really is",
            "labels": "(North American English, offensive, slang)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to be completely burnt",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The whole house went up in smoke."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "if your plans, hopes, etc. go up in smoke, they fail completely",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Hopes of an early end to the dispute have gone up in smoke."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Difficulty and failure"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if something bad is being said about somebody/something, it usually has some truth in it",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the fact of hiding the truth with information that is not important or relevant",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There's a lot of smoke and mirrors in the financing of this film."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a decision that people describe as being made in a smoke-filled room is made by a small group of people at a private meeting, rather than in an open and democratic way",
            "labels": "(disapproving)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sməʊk/",
                "audio": "sm/smoke/smoke__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sməʊk/",
                "audio": "sm/smoke/smoke__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English smoca (noun), smocian (verb), from the Germanic base of smēocan ‘emit smoke’; related to Dutch smook and German Schmauch."
}