Smoking

Definition

smoke /små7k/ n ၁။ [U] မီးခိုး။ smoke from factory chimneys ❍ The room was full of cigarette smoke. ❍ a smoke alarm (ie a device that gives warning of a fire by detecting smoke). ၂။ [C usu sing ] ( infml ) ေဆးလိပ္ေသာက္ ျခင္း။ They stopped work to have a smoke. ❍ I haven't had a smoke all day. v ၁။ (က) မီးခိုးထြက္သည္။ မီးခိုးအူသည္။ a smoking volcano ❍ smoking factory chimneys. (ခ) (မီး)ခိုးသည္။ This fireplace smokes (badly). ၂။ (က) (ေဆးလိပ္၊ ေဆး တံ) ဖြာသည္၊ ေသာက္သည္။ He smokes a pipe. ❍ She smokes 20 (cigarettes) a day. (ခ) ေဆးလိပ္ေသာက္ (တတ္)သည္။ Do you smoke? ❍ She has never smoked. ၃။ (esp passive) က်ပ္တင္သည္။ က်ပ္တိုက္သည္။ smoked ham/salmon/mackerel. ❏ go up in smoke [ IDM ] ၁။ ျပာက်သြားသည္။ The whole row of houses went up in smoke. ၂။ ပ်က္သုဥ္းသည္။ Hopes of an early end to the dispute have clearly gone up in smoke. ❏ (there is) no smoke without fire [ IDM ] ( saying ) မဟုတ္ဘဲနဲ႔မေက်ာ္။ မေျပးေသာ္ကန္ရာရိွ။ He's denied having an affair with his secretary, but of course there's no smoke without fire. ❏ smoked glass n [U] မိႈင္းခံမွန္။ a smoked glass coffee table. ❏ smoke-free adj ေဆးလိပ္ေငြ႕ကင္းေသာ။ smoke-free public transport (ie where smoking is not allowed). ❏ smokeless adj ၁။ (ေလာင္ကြၽမ္းစဥ္) မီးခိုးမထြက္ေသာ။ smokeless fuel. ၂။ မီးခိုးကင္းစင္ေသာ။ a smokeless zone (ie an area where smoke, eg from factories, is mot allowed). ❏ smoke sb/sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ (ပ်ား စသည္ ကို) မီးခိုး တိုက္သည္၊ မိႈင္းတိုက္သည္။ smoke out wasps from a nest. ၂။ [ဥ] ေတာေျခာက္ထုတ္သည္။ He was determined to smoke out the leaders of the gang. ❏ smoker n ၁။ ေဆးလိပ္ေသာက္(တတ္)သူ။ a heavy smoker (ie sb who smokes very often) ❍ a smoker's cough. ၂။ မီးရထား၌ ေဆးလိပ္ေသာက္ႏိုင္သည့္တြဲ။ Shall we sit in a smoker or a non-smoker? ❏ smoking n [U] ေဆးလိပ္ေသာက္ျခင္း။ ‘No Smoking’ (eg on a notice in a public place) ❍ Smoking isn't allowed in this cinema. ❍ the smoking section of an aircraft. ❏ smoking-jacket n (ေရွး) အမ်ဳိးသား အိမ္ဝတ္ အေပၚအက်ႌ။

Examples

1. The air was thick with cigarette smoke.
2. [a column/pall/cloud of smoke] : A column of black smoke slowly rose above the building.
3. Exploding rockets sent up clouds of smoke.
4. I’m just going out for a smoke.
5. Have a smoke.