smoke
Because it is a word with a single syllable, smoke is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofsmoke
- The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- A cigarette.
Example: "Can I bum a smoke off you?; I need to go buy some smokes."
- Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
Example: "Hey, you got some smoke?"
- (never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
Example: "I'm going out for a smoke."
- A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
Example: "The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke."
- Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
Example: "The smoke of controversy."
- A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
- 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.
- Of the colour known as smoke.
- Made of or with smoke.
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