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• smell — 01. Something [smells] delicious. I wonder what s for supper. 02. Because of their excellent sense of [smell], dogs are often used in airports to look for things such as illegal drugs, or bombs. 03. The garbage [smells]. Someone needs to take it… …   Grammatical examples in English

• Smell-O-Vision — was a system that released odors during the projection of a film so that the viewer could smell what was happening in the movie. The technique was created by Hans Laube and made its only appearance in the 1960 film Scent of Mystery , produced by… …   Wikipedia

• smell — smell,[/p] scent, odor, aroma all denote a property of a thing that makes it perceptible to the olfactory sense. Smell not only is the most general of these terms but tends to be the most colorless. It is the appropriate word when merely the… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Smell and Quim — is a freeform improvised noise band, composed of Milovan Srdenovic (né Davy Walklett) and Stewart Keith (né Walden, then Bizarro, then Treize), who have released music initially in cassette form, but also more recently on compact disc. Artforms… …   Wikipedia

• smell — verb. The form for the past tense and past participle in BrE is smelled or smelt; in AmE smelled is usually preferred. When the verb is used intransitively, the quality of the smell is normally expressed either by a phrase introduced by of or by… …   Modern English usage

• smell — (v.) late 12c., emit or perceive an odor, also (n.) odor, aroma, stench; not found in O.E., perhaps cognate with M.Du. smolen, Low Ger. smelen to smolder (see SMOLDER (Cf. smolder)). OED says no doubt of O.E. origin, but not recorded, and not… …   Etymology dictionary

• smell — smellable, adj. smell less, adj. /smel/, v., smelled or smelt, smelling, n. v.t. 1. to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of: I smell something burning. 2. to test by the sense of… …   Universalium

• smell — [[t]sme̱l[/t]] ♦♦♦ smells, smelling, smelled, smelt (American English usually uses the form smelled as the past tense and past participle. British English uses either smelled or smelt.) 1) N COUNT: oft N of n The smell of something is a quality… …   English dictionary

• smell — I. verb (smelled or smelt; smelling) Etymology: Middle English Date: 12th century transitive verb 1. to perceive the odor or scent of through stimuli affecting the olfactory nerves ; get the odor or scent of with the nose 2. to detect or become… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• smell — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. scent; stink; sniff, snuff, inhale; detect, nose out. See odor, malodorousness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A pleasant smell] Syn. fragrance, odor, scent, perfume, exhalation, redolence, essence, aroma,… …   English dictionary for students

• Smell, inability to — No sense of smell is called anosmia. It can be due to loss of the sense of smell or failure for it to develop. Loss of the sense of smell can be due to a number of things including swelling within the nose that prevents odors from gaining access… …   Medical dictionary