smog
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- (UK) IPA(key): /smɒɡ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) enPR: smäg, IPA(key): /smɑɡ/ also IPA(key): /smɔɡ/
- Rhymes: -ɒɡ
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smog (countable and uncountable, plural smogs)
- A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.
- Synonyms: pea-souper, pea-soup fog
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- black smog (combination of smoke and fog; stereotypical 19th century London smog)
- photochemical smog (brown haze and ozone; stereotypical 1980s Los Angeles afternoon smog)
- summer smog
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urban air pollution
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smog (third-person singular simple present smogs, present participle smogging, simple past and past participle smogged)
- (informal) To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.
- If the car is more than five years old, you'll have to have it smogged before you can register it.
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References edit
- “smog”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225
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smog m inan
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smog m (uncountable)
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smog m (plural smogs)
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smog m (invariable)
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- ^ smog in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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smog m inan
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Declension of smog
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adjective
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Unadapted borrowing from English smog.
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- Hyphenation: smog
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smog m (uncountable)
- smog (urban air pollution)
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smog n (uncountable)
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smȍg m (Cyrillic spelling смо̏г)
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smog m (plural smogs)