Difference between Smoke and Fume

What is the difference between Smoke and Fume?

Smoke as a verb is to inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc. while Fume as a verb is emit fumes.

Smoke

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc. To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually. To give off smoke. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke. To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form. To kill, especially with a gun.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of the colour known as smoke.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material. A cigarette. An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act. A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result. Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors. 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. (The Smoke) London

Example sentence: To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.

Fume

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A gas or vapour/vapor that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale. Fumes are solid particles formed by condensation from the gaseous state, e.g. metal oxides from volatilized metals. They can flocculate and coalesce. Their particle size is between 0.1 and 1 micron. (A micron is one millionth of a metre)A material that has been vaporized from the solid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Emit fumes.Expose something (especially wood) to ammonia fumes in order to produce dark tints.To feel or express great anger.

We hope you now know whether to use Smoke or Fume in your sentence.

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