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Smoker

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Smoker is a noun derived from "smoke"/"smoking" and may have the following specialized meanings:

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  • Hydrothermal vent, a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water issues
  • A colloquial name for the Regent Parrot
  • A smoker, or copper-burner, is on of the types of allomancer in Brandon Sanderson's fantasy Mistborn series
  • Commodore Smoker, a character from the anime One Piece
  • A smoking car on a train
  • A boxing smoker is a formal, exclusively male event involving illegally staged and unregulated boxing shows of the early to mid-1900s
  • A name for performances by Cambridge Footlights, typically late-night shows presenting a collection of sketches and comedy songs
Smoke is the airborne solid and liquid particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes pyrolysis or combustion, together with the quantity of air that is entrained or otherwise mixed into the mass.
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Tobacco smoking is the act of burning the dried or cured leaves of the tobacco plant and inhaling the smoke for pleasure, for ritualistic or social purposes, self-medication, or simply to satisfy physical dependence.
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Cannabis, also known as marijuana[1] or ganja,[2] is a psychoactive product of the plant Cannabis sativa L. subsp. indica (= C. indica Lam.).
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Smoking is the process of flavouring, cooking, or preserving food by exposing it to the smoke from burning or smoldering plant materials, most often wood. Meats and fish are the most common smoked foods, though cheeses, vegetables, and ingredients used to make beverages such as
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A bee smoker (usually called simply a smoker) is a device used in beekeeping to calm honey bees. It is designed to generate smoke from the smouldering of various fuels, hence the name.
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A hydrothermal vent, also called a "black smoker", is a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water issues. Hydrothermal vents are commonly found near volcanically active places, tectonic plates that are moving apart, ocean basins, and hotspots.
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P. anthopeplus

Binomial name
Polytelis anthopeplus
(Lear, 1831)

subspecies
P. a. anthopeplus
 LC
P. a.
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The Mistborn, or allomancers, are a fictional group of people from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. They have the ability to "burn" (or use) ingested metals, thereby enhancing various physical and mental capacities.
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Commodore Smoker (スモーカー准将
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train is a series of rail vehicles that move along guides to transport freight or passengers from one place to another. The guideway (permanent way) usually consists of conventional rail tracks, but might also be monorail or maglev.
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Boxing (or pugilism) is a combat sport of English origin in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists in a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds.
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Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, run by the students of Cambridge University and now also the Anglia Ruskin University (formerly Anglia Polytechnic University).
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Without commenting on his last remark, she took the smoker from him and set to work.
Michel Ardan had volunteered to superintend the transport of the cartridges to the mouth of the Columbiad; but the president, having surprised him with an enormous cigar in his mouth, while he was hunting out the rash spectators to whom he himself offered so dangerous an example, saw that he could not trust this fearless smoker, and was therefore obliged to mount a special guard over him.
Two days later, as the steamer Mariposa plied her customary route between Tahiti and San Francisco, the passengers ceased playing deck quoits, abandoned their card games in the smoker, their novels and deck chairs, and crowded the rail to stare at the small boat that skimmed to them across the sea before a light following breeze.
 
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