smog
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /smɒɡ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) enPR: smäg, IPA(key): /smɑɡ/ also IPA(key): /smɔɡ/
- Rhymes: -ɒɡ
Noun
smog (countable and uncountable, plural smogs)
- A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.
- Synonyms: pea-souper, pea-soup fog
- 1973 April 22, Martha Weinman Lear, “Clare Boothe Luce, she who is behind ‘The Women’”, in The New York Times[2]:
- A widow since 1967, she lives now in Honolulu because, she says, she can enjoy the Californialike climate without the smog.
- 2015, Richard Blackshire, Newtown Naughty Boy, page 145:
- Everyone smoked so if the auditorium was full, the whole room would be filled with smoke in next to no time. It was like the legendary London smog of the 1950s in there sometimes. You took it in turn to “flash the ash” as it was called.
Hyponyms
- black smog (combination of smoke and fog; stereotypical 19th century London smog)
- photochemical smog (brown haze and ozone; stereotypical 1980s Los Angeles afternoon smog)
- summer smog
Derived terms
Translations
urban air pollution
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Verb
smog (third-person singular simple present smogs, present participle smogging, simple past and past participle smogged)
- (informal) To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.
- If the car is more than five years old, you'll have to have it smogged before you can register it.
See also
References
- “smog”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsmok]
Noun
smog m inan
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “smog”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- “smog”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
smog m (uncountable)
French
Noun
smog m (plural smogs)
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzmɔɡ/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɔɡ
- Hyphenation: smòg
Noun
smog m (invariable)
References
- ^ smog in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
smog m inan
Declension
Declension of smog
Derived terms
adjective
Further reading
- smog in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- smog in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English smog.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /izˈmɔ.ɡu.i/ [izˈmɔ.ɡʊ.i], /ˈsmɔ.ɡu.i/ [ˈsmɔ.ɡʊ.i], /izˈmɔ.ɡi/, /ˈsmɔ.ɡi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʒˈmɔ.ɡu.i/ [iʒˈmɔ.ɡʊ.i], /ˈsmɔ.ɡu.i/ [ˈsmɔ.ɡʊ.i], /iʒˈmɔ.ɡi/, /ˈsmɔ.ɡi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsmɔ.ɡu.i/ [ˈsmɔ.ɡʊ.i], /izˈmɔ.ɡu.i/ [izˈmɔ.ɡʊ.i], /ˈsmɔ.ɡi/, /izˈmɔ.ɡi/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsmɔ.ɡi/ [ˈsmɔ.ɣi]
- Hyphenation: smog
Noun
smog m (uncountable)
- smog (urban air pollution)
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
smog n (uncountable)
Declension
singular only | indefinite | definite |
---|---|---|
nominative-accusative | smog | smogul |
genitive-dative | smog | smogului |
vocative | smogule |
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /smôɡ/
Noun
smȍg m inan (Cyrillic spelling смо̏г)
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | smog | smogovi |
genitive | smoga | smogova |
dative | smogu | smogovima |
accusative | smog | smogove |
vocative | smogu / smože | smogove |
locative | smogu | smogovima |
instrumental | smogom | smogovima |
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esˈmoɡ/ [ezˈmoɣ̞], /ˈsmoɡ/ [ˈzmoɣ̞]
- Rhymes: -oɡ
- Syllabification: smog
Noun
smog m (plural smogs)