The difference between Cig and Smoke
When used as nouns, cig means cigarette, whereas smoke means the visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
Smoke is also verb with the meaning: to inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
Smoke is also adjective with the meaning: of the colour known as smoke.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cig and Smoke
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Cig as a noun (informal):
cigarette
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Smoke as a noun (uncountable):
The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
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Smoke as a noun (colloquial, countable):
A cigarette.
Examples:
"Can I bum a smoke off you?; I need to go buy some smokes."
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Smoke as a noun (colloquial, uncountable):
Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
Examples:
"Hey, you got some smoke?"
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Smoke as a noun (colloquial, countable, never plural):
An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
Examples:
"I'm going out for a smoke."
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Smoke as a noun (uncountable, figuratively):
A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
Examples:
"The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke."
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Smoke as a noun (uncountable, figuratively):
Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
Examples:
"The smoke of controversy."
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Smoke as a noun (uncountable):
A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
Examples:
"color paneD6E2E2"
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Smoke as a noun (military, uncountable):
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.
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Smoke as a noun (baseball, slang):
A fastball.
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Smoke as a verb (transitive):
To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
Examples:
"He's smoking his pipe."
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Smoke as a verb (intransitive):
To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
Examples:
"Do you smoke?"
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Smoke as a verb (intransitive):
To give off smoke.
Examples:
"My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs."
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Smoke as a verb:
To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
Examples:
"You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours."
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Smoke as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
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Smoke as a verb (slang):
To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
Examples:
"The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune."
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Smoke as a verb (US, Canada, NZ, slang):
To beat someone at something.
Examples:
"We smoked them at rugby."
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Smoke as a verb (US, slang):
To kill, especially with a gun.
Examples:
"He got smoked by the mob."
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Smoke as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
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Smoke as a verb (slang, obsolete, transitive):
To ridicule to the face; to mock.
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Smoke as a verb:
To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
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Smoke as a verb:
To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
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Smoke as a verb:
To suffer severely; to be punished.
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Smoke as a verb (transitive, US, _, military slang):
To punish for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
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Smoke as an adjective:
Of the colour known as smoke.
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Smoke as an adjective:
Made of or with smoke.