smoked
/'smoukt/ Cách viết khác : (smoked-dried) /'smouk'draid/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Preserved by exposure to smoke: Describes food, especially meat or fish, that has been dried, flavored, and preserved by hanging in the smoke from burning wood.
- Having a smoky color or appearance: Can describe something that has a grayish or hazy color reminiscent of smoke.
Usage
- The adjective smoked is used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb like 'is' or 'tastes').
- It primarily describes food products that have undergone a smoking preservation process.
- It can also describe non-food items that have a color or appearance similar to smoke.
Examples
- Attributive use (before a noun):
- We bought some smoked salmon for the appetizer.
- He prefers smoked turkey to roasted turkey.
- Predicative use (after a linking verb):
- This ham is smoked over hickory wood.
- The cheese tasted intensely smoked.
Advanced Usage
- "to be smoked": This passive construction emphasizes the process applied to the food.
- The fish was smoked for twelve hours.
- Used in compound adjectives to specify the type of smoke or method:
- cold-smoked salmon, applewood-smoked bacon
Variants and Related Words
- Smoke (verb): The action of curing or flavoring food with smoke.
- They smoke the meat in a traditional shed.
- Smoking (noun/gerund): The process of preserving food with smoke.
- The smoking of meats is an ancient practice.
- Smoky (adjective): Having the taste, smell, or appearance of smoke. (Note: "Smoky" is more general and can describe air, flavor, or color, not just preserved food).
- The room had a smoky atmosphere.
Synonyms
- Cured: Treated to preserve it, often by smoking, salting, or drying.
- Kippered: Specifically refers to herring or salmon that has been split, salted, and smoked.
Related Phrases
- Smoked out: This is a phrasal verb for the verb 'smoke' and is not directly related to the adjective 'smoked'. It means to force someone or something out of a place by filling it with smoke.
- The police smoked out the fugitive.
Related Idioms
- There's no smoke without fire: This idiom uses the noun 'smoke' and means rumors usually have some basis in truth. It is not directly related to the adjective 'smoked'.
Adjective
- (used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke