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Difference Between Unreal and Smoke

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Unreal

Not real or substantial; illusory.

Smoke

Smoke is a collection of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with the quantity of air that is entrained or otherwise mixed into the mass. It is commonly an unwanted by-product of fires (including stoves, candles, internal combustion engines, oil lamps, and fireplaces), but may also be used for pest control (fumigation), communication (smoke signals), defensive and offensive capabilities in the military (smoke screen), cooking, or smoking (tobacco, cannabis, etc.).

Unreal

(Slang) So remarkable as to elicit disbelief; fantastic.

Smoke

A visible suspension of carbon or other particles in air, typically one emitted from a burning substance
Bonfire smoke

Unreal

Surreal.
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Smoke

An act of smoking tobacco
I'm dying for a smoke

Unreal

Not real or substantial; having no actual presence in reality; lacking the characteristics of reality.

Smoke

A big city, especially London
She was offered a job in the Smoke

Unreal

(informal) very impressive; amazing; unbelievable; incredible; larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.
The video includes unreal footage of an eight-metre wave.
I just had an unreal hamburger.

Smoke

Emit smoke or visible vapour
Heat the oil until it just smokes
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Unreal

Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

Smoke

Inhale and exhale the smoke of tobacco or a drug
Janine was sitting at the kitchen table smoking
He smoked forty cigarettes a day

Unreal

Lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria;
Ghosts and other unreal entities
Unreal propaganda serving as news

Smoke

Treat, fumigate, or cleanse by exposure to smoke.

Unreal

Not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary;
This conversation is getting more and more unreal
The fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy
The unreal world of advertising art

Smoke

Kill (someone) by shooting
They gotta go smoke this person

Unreal

Contrived by art rather than nature;
Artificial flowers
Artificial flavoring
An artificial diamond
Artificial fibers
Artificial sweeteners

Smoke

Make fun of (someone)
We baited her and smoked her

Unreal

Lacking material form or substance; unreal;
As insubstantial as a dream
An insubstantial mirage on the horizon

Smoke

A mixture of gases and small suspended particles of soot or other solids, resulting from the burning of materials such as wood or coal.

Smoke

A cloud of such gases and suspended particles.

Smoke

A vapor, mist, or fume that resembles this.

Smoke

Something insubstantial, unreal, or transitory
"What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion" (Henry David Thoreau).

Smoke

The act of smoking a form of tobacco
Went out for a smoke.

Smoke

The duration of this act.

Smoke

(Informal) Tobacco in a form that can be smoked, especially a cigarette
Money to buy smokes.

Smoke

A substance used in warfare to produce a smokescreen.

Smoke

Something used to conceal or obscure.

Smoke

A pale to grayish blue to bluish or dark gray.

Smoke

(Baseball) Pitches thrown at high velocity; fast balls
Threw a lot of smoke in the early innings.

Smoke

To draw in and exhale smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe
It's forbidden to smoke here.

Smoke

To engage in smoking regularly or habitually
He smoked for years before stopping.

Smoke

To emit smoke or a smokelike substance
Chimneys smoking in the cold air.

Smoke

To emit smoke excessively
The station wagon smoked even after the tune-up.

Smoke

To go or proceed at high speed.

Smoke

To play or perform energetically
The band was really smoking in the second set.

Smoke

To draw in and exhale the smoke of (tobacco, for example)
I've never smoked a panatela.

Smoke

To do so regularly or habitually
I used to smoke filtered cigarettes.

Smoke

To preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to the aromatic smoke of burning hardwood, usually after pickling in salt or brine.

Smoke

To fumigate (a house, for example).

Smoke

To expose (animals, especially insects) to smoke in order to immobilize or drive away.

Smoke

To expose (glass) to smoke in order to darken or change its color.

Smoke

To kill; murder.

Smoke

To defeat decisively, as in a competition.

Smoke

(Baseball) To throw (a pitch) at high velocity.

Smoke

(uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.

Smoke

A cigarette.
Can I bum a smoke off you?;
I need to go buy some smokes.

Smoke

Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
Hey, you got some smoke?

Smoke

An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
I'm going out for a smoke.

Smoke

A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.

Smoke

Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
The smoke of controversy.

Smoke

(uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.

Smoke

Bother; problems; hassle.
You better not be giving me no smoke.

Smoke

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.

Smoke

A fastball.

Smoke

(countable) A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.

Smoke

(transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.

Smoke

(intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
Do you smoke?

Smoke

(intransitive) To give off smoke.
My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.

Smoke

(intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.

Smoke

(transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.

Smoke

(transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.

Smoke

To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.

Smoke

To make unclear or blurry.

Smoke

To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.

Smoke

To beat someone at something.
We smoked them at rugby.

Smoke

To kill, especially with a gun.
He got smoked by the mob.

Smoke

To thrash; to beat.

Smoke

To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.

Smoke

To ridicule to the face; to mock.

Smoke

To burn; to be kindled; to rage.

Smoke

To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.

Smoke

To suffer severely; to be punished.

Smoke

To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.

Smoke

(transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.

Smoke

The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.

Smoke

That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.

Smoke

Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.

Smoke

The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke.

Smoke

To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.
Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.

Smoke

Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke agains. that man.

Smoke

To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.

Smoke

To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner.

Smoke

To suffer severely; to be punished.
Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.

Smoke

To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.

Smoke

To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.

Smoke

To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
I aloneSmoked his true person, talked with him.
He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.
Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.

Smoke

To ridicule to the face; to quiz.

Smoke

To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar.

Smoke

To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; - often with out; as, to smoke a woodchuck out of his burrow.

Smoke

A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

Smoke

A hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion;
The fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles

Smoke

An indication of some hidden activity;
With all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere

Smoke

Something with no concrete substance;
His dreams all turned to smoke
It was just smoke and mirrors

Smoke

Tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder

Smoke

Street names for marijuana

Smoke

The act of smoking tobacco or other substances;
He went outside for a smoke
Smoking stinks

Smoke

(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity;
He swung late on the fastball
He showed batters nothing but smoke

Smoke

Inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes;
We never smoked marijuana
Do you smoke?

Smoke

Emit a cloud of fine particles;
The chimney was fuming

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