smoke
part of speech
noun (smoke); verb (smoke, smokes, smoked, smoking)
meaning for a pupil
1) The grey, black or white cloud that rises from something burning. tree →
2) As a verb, to give off smoke: "The chimney is smoking." tree →
3) As a verb, to breathe in smoke from a cigarette or pipe. tree →
4) As a verb, to keep fish or meat in smoke to give flavour: "smoked salmon". tree →
5) When a horse runs very hard, it sweats so much that steam rises from its body, looking like smoke. tree →
sense 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 →
- If there is smoke, crawl low to get out. tree →
- The smoke alarm beeped. tree →
- Smoking is bad for your lungs. tree →
- Smoke rises because it is hot. tree →
- The toast is burning — I can see smoke! tree →
- Our plans went up in smoke. tree →
- This is a no-smoking area. tree →
- The horses ran till they smoked. tree →
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 the corpora
- Vivid example: in a kitchen in Manchester the six o'clock news shows smoke over a city and the word "missiles".
- Taffy plans to draw the carp-mouth in the smoke at the back of the Cave, as a surprise for Daddy.
- A firework is a very fast chemical reaction that makes hot gases, light, heat, noise and smoke.
- A smoke alarm senses tiny smoke particles; test it by pressing its button, never with a flame.
- Most people who die in house fires are killed by smoke, not flames, often while asleep.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «smoke» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.