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Smoke can be a verb, an adjective or a noun.

smoke used as a verb:

  1. To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
    "He's smoking his pipe."
  2. To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually.
    "Do you smoke?"
  3. To give off smoke.
    "My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs."
  4. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
    "You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours."
  5. To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
    "The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune."
  6. To kill, especially with a gun.
    "He got smoked by the mob."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

smoke used as an adjective:

  1. Of the colour known as smoke.

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

smoke used as a noun:

  1. The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
  2. A cigarette.
    "Can I bum a smoke off you? I need to go buy some smokes."
  3. An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
    "I'm going out for a smoke."
  4. A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
    "The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke."
  5. Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
    "The smoke of controversy."
  6. A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
  7. 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, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
  8. A fastball.
  9. (The Smoke) London

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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As detailed above, 'smoke' can be a verb, an adjective or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: He's smoking his pipe.
  2. Verb usage: Do you smoke?
  3. Verb usage: My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.
  4. Verb usage: You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.
  5. Verb usage: The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.
  6. Verb usage: He got smoked by the mob.
  7. Noun usage: Can I bum a smoke off you? I need to go buy some smokes.
  8. Noun usage: I'm going out for a smoke.
  9. Noun usage: The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
  10. Noun usage: The smoke of controversy.
  11. Noun usage:

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of smoke are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of smoke, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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