Unreal vs. Smoke — What's the Difference?

Not real or substantial; illusory.

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.).

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

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

Surreal.

An act of smoking tobacco

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

A big city, especially London

(informal) very impressive; amazing; unbelievable; incredible; larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.

Emit smoke or visible vapour

Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

Inhale and exhale the smoke of tobacco or a drug

Lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria;

Treat, fumigate, or cleanse by exposure to smoke.

Not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary;

Kill (someone) by shooting

Contrived by art rather than nature;

Make fun of (someone)

Lacking material form or substance; unreal;

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

A cloud of such gases and suspended particles.

A vapor, mist, or fume that resembles this.

Something insubstantial, unreal, or transitory

The act of smoking a form of tobacco

The duration of this act.

(Informal) Tobacco in a form that can be smoked, especially a cigarette

A substance used in warfare to produce a smokescreen.

Something used to conceal or obscure.

A pale to grayish blue to bluish or dark gray.

(Baseball) Pitches thrown at high velocity; fast balls

To draw in and exhale smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe

To engage in smoking regularly or habitually

To emit smoke or a smokelike substance

To emit smoke excessively

To go or proceed at high speed.

To play or perform energetically

To draw in and exhale the smoke of (tobacco, for example)

To do so regularly or habitually

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

To fumigate (a house, for example).

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

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

To kill; murder.

To defeat decisively, as in a competition.

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

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

A cigarette.

Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)

An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.

A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.

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

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

Bother; problems; hassle.

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.

A fastball.

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

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

(intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.

(intransitive) To give off smoke.

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

(transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.

(transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.

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

To make unclear or blurry.

To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.

To beat someone at something.

To kill, especially with a gun.

To thrash; to beat.

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

To ridicule to the face; to mock.

To burn; to be kindled; to rage.

To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.

To suffer severely; to be punished.

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

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

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.

That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.

Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.

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

To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.

Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.

To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.

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.

To suffer severely; to be punished.

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.

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

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

To ridicule to the face; to quiz.

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

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.

A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

A hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion;

An indication of some hidden activity;

Something with no concrete substance;

Tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder

Street names for marijuana

The act of smoking tobacco or other substances;

(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity;

Inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes;

Emit a cloud of fine particles;