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词汇 puff
释义 puff
verb
uk /pʌf/ us /pʌf/

puffverb (BREATHE)


[ I ]
to breathe fast and with difficulty, usually because you have been exercising: 气喘吁吁
He came puffing up the stairs.他气喘吁吁地上了楼。
[ + speech ]"I ran all the way home," she puffed (= said while puffing).“我是一路跑回家的,”她气喘吁吁地说。
 puff and pant
to breathe fast and with difficulty, usually because you have been exercising气喘吁吁
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Animal physiology: breathing & stopping breathing
aerobic
asphyxia
asphyxiation
aspirate
aspiration
breathable
breathe (something) in
choke
draw breathphrase
expire
huff and puffidiom
hyperventilation
lungful
non-breathing
out of breath
pant
puffed
puffed out
stifle
strangulation

puffverb (SMOKE)


[ I or T ]
to smoke tobacco: 吸(烟),抽(烟)
She was puffing on a cigarette at the time.她当时正在吸烟。
He sat there, puffing away at a cigarette.他坐在那里,抽着烟。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Tobacco & smoking
anti-tobacco
ashtray
big tobacco
briar
butt
chain-smoker
cigarette
cigarette butt
cigarette holder
lighter
nicotine patch
passive smoking
puffer
roll up!idiom
roll-your-own
second-hand smoke
shisha
smokeless
tar
weed

puffverb (BLOW)


[ I or T ]
to blow out in clouds, or make steam or smoke do this: 吹,喷出,冒出
The engine puffed a huge cloud of steam, then rolled down the tracks.火车头喷出一大股水蒸气,沿着轨道开始移动。
The chimney was puffing out clouds of smoke.烟囱向外冒出一股股的烟。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Emitting and ejecting
carbon emissions
discharge
displace
displaced
eject
ejection
ejector
emission
emitter
expel
expulsion
exude
give something off
loose
send
send something out
shed
shedding
spew
toss

Phrasal verbs


puff something out
puff up
puff someone/something up
puff something up
puff
noun
uk /pʌf/ us /pʌf/

puffnoun (SMALL AMOUNT)


[ C ]
a small amount of smoke, air, or something that can rise into the air in a small cloud: 一小口(烟雾),一小股(空气)
Sean blew a puff of smoke at his reflection in the mirror.肖恩朝镜中的自己喷了一口烟。
He hit the ground with his stick and a puff of dust rose up into the air.他用拐杖敲打地面,扬起一股浮尘。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Precipitation: clouds, dew, fog & steam
billow
brume
chemtrail
cirrus
cloud-capped
cloudily
cloudlessly
haze
haze over
lowering
misty
moisture
overcast
pall
Scotch mist
steam (something) up
steamily
sub-visible
vapour trail
vog

puffnoun (FOOD)


[ C ]
a piece of food made of puff pastry filled with something sweet or with food such as cheese: 泡夫,松饼
a cream/jam puff奶油/果酱松饼
cheese puffs奶酪松饼
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Pastry & pies
apple pie
baked goods
banoffee pie
barquette
bear claw
Danish pastry
elephant ear
empanada
en croute
mincemeat
napoleon
open-faced
pain au chocolat
pandowdy
rough puff pastry
samosa
sausage roll
shoofly pie
shortcrust pastry
éclair

puffnoun (PRAISE)


[ C ]informal mainly disapproving(US alsopuff piece)
a piece of writing or speech that praises something too much吹捧文字,吹捧的言论
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Praising and applauding
acclaim
acclamation
accolade
adulate
adulation
clap
compliment
encomium
enthrone
enthronement
eulogistic
eulogistically
hail
laurel wreath
lay it on a bit thickidiom
ode
ooh
ooh and aahidiom
ovation
overpraise

puffnoun (BREATHE)


 be out of puffUKinformal
to be breathing with difficulty because you have been doing physical exercise气喘吁吁,呼吸急促
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Animal physiology: breathing & stopping breathing
aerobic
asphyxia
asphyxiation
aspirate
aspiration
breathable
breathe (something) in
choke
draw breathphrase
expire
huff and puffidiom
hyperventilation
lungful
non-breathing
out of breath
pant
puffed
puffed out
stifle
strangulation

puffnoun (SMOKING)


[ C ]
an act of smoking: 吸烟,抽烟
She took a puff on her cigarette and thought for a moment.她抽了一口烟,沉思了一会儿。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Tobacco & smoking
anti-tobacco
ashtray
big tobacco
briar
butt
chain-smoker
cigarette
cigarette butt
cigarette holder
lighter
nicotine patch
passive smoking
puffer
roll up!idiom
roll-your-own
second-hand smoke
shisha
smokeless
tar
weed

Idiom


vanish/go up/disappear in a puff of smoke

puff | American Dictionary


puff
verb
us/pʌf/

puffverb (BREATHE)


[ I ]
to breathe quickly and with a lot of force, usually as a result of an activity that needs a lot of physical effort:
Ricardo was puffing hard after he raced up five flights of stairs.
[ I ]
To puff is also to breathe in and blow out smoke from a cigarette, cigar (= rolled tobacco), or pipe (= device for smoking).

puffverb (SWELL)


[ I/T ]
to swell or increase in size:
[ T ]One eye was puffed and her cheek was bruised dark as a coal smear.
[ T ]The child held a deep breath and puffed her cheeks until they turned red.
puff
noun[ C ]
us/pʌf/

puffnoun[C] (SMALL BURST)


a small burst of smoke, air, or something that can rise into the air in a small cloud:
We felt a puff of wind as the door open and closed.

puffnoun[C] (CAKE)


a small, round cake or other food, esp. one made from pastry with a filling inside:
a cream puff

puffnoun[C] (BREATHE)


an act of puffing out air, often with a soft sound
A puff is also an act of breathing in and blowing out smoke.

puff | Business English


puff
noun[ C ]
 MARKETINGuk /pʌf/us(also USpuff piece)
a piece of writing that praises or advertises a product:
They asked me to write a puff for her latest book.
a puff (piece) on sthHe's gone to New York to do a puff piece on a starlet.
puff
verb[ T ]
 MARKETINGuk /pʌf/us
to praise or advertise a product in order to increase sales:
He was at the festival to puff his new movie.

Examples of puff


puff
X-ray emission from laser irradiated gas puff targets.
In symbolizing the body's physical permeability, the powder puff became a proxy for the instability of the social body at large.
By allowing men to cross social boundaries the powder puff suggested just how fragile they were.
The qualitative agreement between the two sets of data suggests that the present transitional flow can be regarded as a 'puff '-type flow.
The plume width is assumed to be equal to the width of a corresponding puff, which may not be correct.
Spatially resolved spectrograph confirms better axial uniformity with solid-fill gas puff.
To test the effect of nicotine application on maintained rate, nicotine was bath or puff applied without concurrent light stimulation.
After the interview, the second saliva sample was collected, 20 - 30 min after the first air puff of the fear-potentiated startle paradigm.
However, their initial puff is larger than the integral scale, so the experiment is not relevant for relative diffusion within inertial-subrange distances.
The rules just stated have been recognized and applied in several previous studies of the turbulent puff or the turbulent vortex ring.
In contrast, the gas puff loads do show a systematic zipper.
In all nozzle configurations, the outer shell was an annular gas puff, while the inner shell was a solid fill.
The gas puff target is formed by pulsed injection of a small amount of gas under high-pressure into a laser focus region.
The electromagnetic valve system equipped with a double-nozzle setup to form new gas puff targets is presented and characterized.
However, glutamate puff responses were not affected (n 3).
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