The difference between Cigarette and Smoke

When used as nouns, cigarette means tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked, whereas smoke means the visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.

When used as verbs, cigarette means to give someone a , and/or to one for them, whereas smoke means 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 Cigarette and Smoke

  1. Cigarette as a noun:

    Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.

  1. Cigarette as a verb:

    To give someone a , and/or to one for them.

  1. Smoke as a noun (uncountable):

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

  2. Smoke as a noun (colloquial, countable):

    A cigarette.

    Examples:

    "Can I bum a smoke off you?; I need to go buy some smokes."

  3. Smoke as a noun (colloquial, uncountable):

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

    Examples:

    "Hey, you got some smoke?"

  4. 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."

  5. 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."

  6. 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."

  7. Smoke as a noun (uncountable):

    A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.

    Examples:

    "color paneD6E2E2"

  8. 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.

  9. Smoke as a noun (baseball, slang):

    A fastball.

  1. Smoke as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "He's smoking his pipe."

  2. Smoke as a verb (intransitive):

    To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.

    Examples:

    "Do you smoke?"

  3. Smoke as a verb (intransitive):

    To give off smoke.

    Examples:

    "My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs."

  4. 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."

  5. Smoke as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

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

  6. 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."

  7. Smoke as a verb (US, Canada, NZ, slang):

    To beat someone at something.

    Examples:

    "We smoked them at rugby."

  8. Smoke as a verb (US, slang):

    To kill, especially with a gun.

    Examples:

    "He got smoked by the mob."

  9. Smoke as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

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

  10. Smoke as a verb (slang, obsolete, transitive):

    To ridicule to the face; to mock.

  11. Smoke as a verb:

    To burn; to be kindled; to rage.

  12. Smoke as a verb:

    To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.

  13. Smoke as a verb:

    To suffer severely; to be punished.

  14. Smoke as a verb (transitive, US, _, military slang):

    To punish for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.

  1. Smoke as an adjective:

    Of the colour known as smoke.

  2. Smoke as an adjective:

    Made of or with smoke.

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