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smell

US: /ˈsmɛɫ/

UK: /smˈɛl/

English Vietnamese dictionary

smell /smel/

danh từ
- khứu giác
  - a fine sense of smell: mũi thính
- sự ngửi, sự hít
  - to have a smell at something: ngửi cái gì
- mùi
  - the smell of roses: mùi hoa hồng
- mùi thối, mùi ôi

ngoại động từ smelt, (từ hiếm,nghĩa hiếm) smelled
- ngửi, ngửi thấy, thấy mùi
  - I am sure I smell gas: tôi cam đoan có mùi hơi đốt
- cảm thấy, đoán được
  - do you smell anything unusual?: anh có cảm thấy có điều gì không bình thường không?
- đánh hơi tìm ra, đánh hơi tìm; (bóng) khám phá, phát hiện
  - to smell out a plot: khám phá ra một âm mưu

nội động từ
- có mùi, toả mùi
  - these flowers smell sweet: những hoa này có mùi thơm dịu
  - to smell of garlic: có nùi tỏi
  - this milk smells sour: sữa này có mùi chua
  - to smell of jobberyd: sặc mùi xoay xở
  - his talk smells of war: bài nói của hắn sặc mùi chiến tranh
- to smell about
  - đánh hơi
- quen hơi (quen với một mùi gì)
- to smell up
  - sặc mùi thối, sặc mùi ôi; làm nồng nặc mùi hôi thối
- to smell of the lamp
  - (xem) lamp
- to smell of the shop
  - quá nặng tính chất chuyên môn, quá nặng tính chất kỹ thuật
- to smell a rat
  - (nghĩa bóng) cảm thấy có âm mưu, nghi có sự dối trá

Advanced English dictionary

verb, noun
+ verb (smelled, smelled) (BrE also smelt, smelt )
1 ~ (of sth) to have a particular smell: [V-ADJ] The room smelt damp. + Dinner smells good. + a bunch of sweet-smelling flowers + [V] His breath smelt of garlic. + What does the perfume smell like? + The house smelt of cedar wood and fresh polish.
2 [no passive] (not used in the progressive tenses; often with can or could) to notice or recognize a particular smell: [VN] He said he could smell gas when he entered the room. + The dog had smelt a rabbit. + I could smell alcohol on his breath. + [VN -ing] Can you smell something burning? [also V (that)]
3 [VN] (not usually used in the passive) to put your nose near sth and breathe in so that you can discover or identify its smell: Smell this and tell me what you think it is. + I bent down to smell the flowers.
4 [V] (not used in the progressive tenses) to have an unpleasant smell: The drains smell. + It smells in here. + He hadn't washed for days and was beginning to smell.
5 [V] (not used in the progressive tenses) to be able to smell: Can birds smell? + Insects smell by turning their antennae to scents in the air.
6 [VN] [no passive] (written) to feel that sth exists or is going to happen: He smelt danger. + I can smell trouble.
Idioms: come up / out of sth smelling of roses (informal) to still have a good reputation, even though you have been involved in sth that might have given people a bad opinion of you: Nobody ever knew the details and he came out of the deal smelling of roses.
smell a rat (informal) to suspect that sth is wrong about a situation
Phrasal Verbs: smell sb/sth<->out
1 to be aware of fear, danger, trouble, etc. in a situation: He could always smell out fear.
2 to find sth by smelling: dogs trained to smell out drugs
+ noun
1 [C, U] the quality of sth that people and animals sense through their noses: a faint / strong smell of garlic + a sweet / fresh / musty smell + There was a smell of burning in the air. + The smells from the kitchen filled the room.
2 [sing.] an unpleasant smell: What's that smell? + Yuk! What a smell!
3 [U] the ability to sense things with the nose: Dogs have a very good sense of smell. + Taste and smell are closely connected.
4 [C] the act of smelling sth: He took one smell of the liquid and his eyes began to water.
Idioms see SWEET adj.
VOCABULARY BUILDING
smells
Describing smells
These adjectives describe pleasant smells: scented candles
aromatic oils
fragrant perfume
sweet-smelling flowers
To describe unpleasant smells you can use: smelly cheese
stinking fish
musty old books
acrid smoke
Types of smell: Pleasant smells:
the rich aroma of fresh coffee
a herb with a delicate fragrance
a rose's sweet perfume
the scent of wild flowers
Unpleasant smells: nasty household odours
the stench of rotting meat
the stink of stale sweat
the reek of beer and tobacco

Thesaurus dictionary

1 odour, scent, aroma, perfume, fragrance, bouquet, breath, whiff:

Don't you love the smell of freshly brewed coffee in the morning?

2 stink, stench, fetor or foetor, fetidness, mephitis, effluvium, Colloq Brit pong:

The smell from the rotting garbage was overpowering.

3 scent, sniff, Colloq get a whiff of:

The moment I smelt that perfume I knew that Nicole had been there.

4 stink, reek, Colloq Brit pong, hum:

The milk had gone off and smelled to high heaven.

Collocation dictionary

ADJ.

overpowering, pervasive, pungent, rich, sharp, strong

There was an overpowering smell of burning tyres.

| faint | distinct | distinctive, particular, unmistakable | funny, peculiar, strange, unusual

What's that funny smell?

| familiar | lingering | aromatic, delectable, delicious, fragrant, fresh, lovely, nice, savoury, sweet, wonderful

the aromatic smells of a spring garden full of herbs

| warm | appalling, awful, bad, evil, horrible, nasty, offensive, terrible, unpleasant, vile | acrid, nauseating, putrid, rank, sickly

An acrid smell filled the air.

| damp, dank, musty, rancid, sour, stale

the sour smell of unwashed linen

| earthy, fishy, masculine, metallic, musky, oily, smoky, spicy | cooking

Cooking smells drifted up from the kitchen.

VERB + SMELL

be filled with, have

The air was filled with a pervasive smell of chemicals. The cottage had a musty smell after being shut up over the winter.

| give off

The skunk gives off an unpleasant smell when attacked.

| catch, detect

As she walked into the house she detected the smell of gas.

SMELL + VERB

come, emanate, drift, float, waft

A delicious smell of freshly baked bread wafted across the garden.

| fill sth, hang | hit sb

Then the pungent smell hit us?rotting fish and seaweed.

PREP.

~ from

the putrid smell from the slaughterhouse

| ~ of

The faint smell of her perfume hung in the air.

¹ notice/identify sth by using your nose

ADV.

properly, well

I had a streaming cold, so I could not smell properly.

| almost

Snow fell so that you could almost smell the cold.

VERB + SMELL

can/could

² have a particular smell

ADV.

strongly

His clothes smelled strongly of fish.

| faintly, slightly, vaguely

He smelled faintly of sweat.

| deliciously, pleasantly, sweetly

PREP.

like

It smells like rotten meat!

| of

The kitchen smelled sweetly of herbs and fruit.

Concise English dictionary

smelt|smells|smelled|smellingsmel
noun
+the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
+any property detected by the olfactory system
+the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
+the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
+the act of perceiving the odor of something
verb
+inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
+emit an odor
+smell bad