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What (who) is Smell - definition
smell
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Smells; Smell (disambiguation)
(smells, smelling, smelled, smelt)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: American English usually uses the form 'smelled' as the past tense and past participle. British English uses either 'smelled' or 'smelt'.
1.
The smell of something is a quality it has which you become aware of when you breathe in through your nose.
...the smell of freshly baked bread.
...horrible smells...
N-COUNT: oft N of n
2.
Your sense of smell is the ability that your nose has to detect things.
...people who lose their sense of smell.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If something smells in a particular way, it has a quality which you become aware of through your nose.
The room smelled of lemons...
It smells delicious.
...a crumbly black substance that smells like fresh soil.
V-LINK: V of n, V adj, V like n
4.
If you say that something smells, you mean that it smells unpleasant.
Ma threw that out. She said it smelled...
Do my feet smell?
VERB: V, V
5.
If you smell something, you become aware of it when you breathe in through your nose.
As soon as we opened the front door we could smell the gas.
VERB: V n
6.
If you smell something, you put your nose near it and breathe in, so that you can discover its smell.
I took a fresh rose out of the vase on our table, and smelled it.
= sniff
VERB: V n
7.
smell
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Smells; Smell (disambiguation)
I. v. a.
Scent, get scent of.
II. v. n.
Have an odor, have a scent.
III. n.
Scent, odor, perfume, fragrance, aroma.
smell
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Smells; Smell (disambiguation)
¦ noun
1. the faculty of perceiving odours by means of the organs in the nose.
2. a quality in something that is perceived by this faculty; an odour.
an unpleasant odour.
3. an act of inhaling in order to ascertain an odour.
¦ verb (past and past participle smelt or smelled)
1. perceive or detect the odour of.
sniff at (something) in order to ascertain its odour.
(smell something out) detect or discover something by the faculty of smell.
detect or suspect by means of instinct or intuition.
2. emit an odour of a specified kind.
have a strong or unpleasant odour.
be suggestive of something.
Phrases
smell a rat informal suspect trickery.
Derivatives
smellable adjective
smeller noun
-smelling adjective
Origin
ME: of unknown origin.
Examples of use of Smell
1. "You can still smell the smoke and smell the fire.
2. You could smell a gunpowder, cordite kind of smell.
3. "And the smell of cordite as well, the gunpowder smell, that sort of acrid sort of gunpowder smell.
4. You could smell it." What, I asked her, could you smell?
5. The smell the sour sweet smell of rotting flesh cut it short.