Smoke Definition–noun | 1. | the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, esp. the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter. | | 2. | something resembling this, as vapor or mist, flying particles, etc. | | 3. | something unsubstantial, evanescent, or without result: Their hopes and dreams proved to be smoke. | | 4. | an obscuring condition: the smoke of controversy. | | 5. | an act or spell of smoking something, esp. tobacco: They had a smoke during the intermission. | | 6. | something for smoking, as a cigar or cigarette: This is the best smoke on the market. | | 8. | Slang. a homemade drink consisting of denatured alcohol and water. | | 9. | Physics, Chemistry. a system of solid particles suspended in a gaseous medium. | | 10. | a bluish or brownish gray color. | –verb (used without object) | 11. | to give off or emit smoke, as in burning. | | 12. | to give out smoke offensively or improperly, as a stove. | | 13. | to send forth steam or vapor, dust, or the like. | | 14. | to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of tobacco or the like, as from a pipe or cigarette. | | 15. | Slang. to ride or
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travel with great speed. | –verb (used with object) | 17. | to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of: to smoke tobacco. | | 18. | to use (a pipe, cigarette, etc.) in this process. | | 20. | to fumigate (rooms, furniture, etc.). | | 21. | to cure (meat, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke. | | 22. | to color or darken by smoke. | —Verb phrase | 23. | smoke out, | a. | to drive from a refuge by means of smoke. | | b. | to force into public view or knowledge; reveal: to smoke out the leaders of the spy ring. | | —Idiom | 24. | go up or end in smoke, to terminate without producing a result; be unsuccessful: All our dreams went up in smoke. | |
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Shop Definition–noun | 1. | a retail store, esp. a small one. | | 2. | a small store or department in a large store selling a specific or select type of goods: the ski shop at Smith's. | | 3. | the workshop of a craftsperson or artisan. | | 4. | the workshop of a person who works in a manual trade; place for doing s
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pecific, skilled manual work: a carpenter's shop. | | 5. | any factory, office, or business: Our ad agency is a well-run shop. | | 6. | Education. | a. | a course of instruction in a trade, as carpentry, printing, etc., consisting chiefly of training in the use of its tools and materials. | | b. | a classroom in which such a course is given. | | | 7. | one's trade, profession, or business as a subject of conversation or preoccupation. | –verb (used without object) | 8. | to visit shops and stores for purchasing or examining goods. | | 9. | to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale: Retail merchants often stock their stores by shopping in New York. | | 10. | to seek a bargain, investment, service, etc. (usually fol. by for): I'm shopping for a safe investment that pays good interest. | –verb (used with object) | 11. | to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale in or by: She's shopping the shoe stores this afternoon. | | 12. | Chiefly British Informal. | a. | to put into prison; jail. | | b. | to behave treacherously toward; inform on; betray. | | | 13. | Slang. to try to sell (merchandise or a project) in an attempt to obtain an order or contract. | –interjection | 14. | (used in a store, shop, etc., in calling an employee to wait on a customer.) | —Idioms | 15. | set up shop, to go into business; begin business operations: to set up shop as a taxidermist. | | 16. | shut up shop, | a. | to close a business temporarily, as at the end of the day. | | b. | to suspend business operations permanently: They couldn't make a go of it and had to shut up shop. | | | 17. | talk shop, to discuss one's trade, profession, or business: After dinner we all sat around the table and talked shop. | |
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EDMONTON - An east Edmonton tire shop was engulfed in flames Thursday afternoon, sending a plume of black smoke into the air.
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$1M damage in Ashwaubenon auto body shop fire
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Smoke Shop produced a stunning comeback to beat the sorry SA Seniors 3-2 in the Moshiko Soccer League at the weekend.
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