smell

Substantiv

1. 1

   A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

   I love the smell of fresh bread.

2. 2

   The sense that detects odours.

   In this interest we used the survey to obtain unique data about the memory-evoking power of smell. We found that the stronger the odor, the more likely it was to bring to mind a vivid memory.

3. 3

   A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.

   I’m just saying, this has a bad smell to it.

Verb

1. 1

   To sense a smell or smells.

   I can smell fresh bread.

   Smell the milk and tell me whether it's gone off.

2. 2

   To sense a smell or smells. To detect or perceive; often with out.

   I smell a device.

3. 3

   Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.

   The roses smell lovely.

   Her feet smell of cheese.

   The drunkard smelt like a brewery.

   Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel[…]. Next he put the mackerel in a fry-pan, and the shanty began to smell like a Banks boat just in from a v'yage.

4. 4

   Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad. To smell of; to have a smell of

   I do smell all horse-piss

5. 5

   Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad. To smell bad; to stink.

   Ew, this restroom smells (loathsomely).

6. 6

   übertragenFollowed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad. To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.

   A report smells of calumny.

   Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft.

7. 7

   veraltetTo give heed to.

   So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries.

Formen

Plural

smells

Präteritum

smelled, smelt

Partizip II

smelled, smelt

Partizip I

smelling

3. Person Singular

smells