smell

sustantivo

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.

verbo

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

   figuradoFollowed 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

   obsoletoTo give heed to.

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

Formas

plural

smells

pasado

smelled, smelt

participio

smelled, smelt

gerundio

smelling

3.ª persona del singular

smells