amerikai:
brit:
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. The sense that detects odours.
3. A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
1. To sense a smell or smells.
I can smell fresh bread.
Szinonimák: detect, sense
2. Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
Her feet smell of cheese.
Szinonimák: pong, reek, stink, whiff
3. (without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
Ew, this stuff smells.
4. To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
A report smells of calumny.
5. To exercise sagacity.
6. To detect or perceive; often with out.
7. To give heed to.