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SMELL

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smell I. substantiv

1. miros, simţul mirosului; (despre câini) miros, nas;

to have a keen sense of smell a avea un miros / un simţ al mirosului foarte fin.

2. miros; parfum, mireasmă;

a nice smell of perfume un miros plăcut de parfum;

a smell of cooking un miros de gătit de bucătărie;

unpleasant smell miros / iz neplăcut.

3. to take a smell at smth. a mirosi / a simţi ceva.

smell II. verb past şi part trec. smelt sau smelled A. tranzitiv

1. a mirosi (o floare, un parfum etc.); a mirosi, a simţi (ceva); a avea simţul mirosului, a simţi (un miros); (fig.) a simţi, a presimţi (ceva);

(fig.) to smell a rat a mirosi un pericol, a presimţi ceva;

(fig.) to smell powder a mirosi a praf de puşcă.

2. to smell out a) (despre câini) a adulmeca, a mirosi, a simţi (vânatul), a da de urma (vânatului); b) a descoperi (un secret).

smell II. verb past şi part trec. smelt sau smelled B. intranzitiv

1. (despre o floare, un parfum etc.) a mirosi (a ceva) a mirosi plăcut;

to smell nice a mirosi plăcut, a răspândi un miros plăcut;

room that smells damp cameră care miroase a umezeală;

(fig.) to smell of the lamp a mirosi a gaz.

2. a mirosi urât, a avea un miros urât / greu / tare.

3. a adulmeca, a mirosi;

the dog smelt at my shoes câinele a mirosit ghetele mele.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

There is peace in its smell; I feel sleep coming already. Good-night, everybody.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

He smelled the meat carefully; but he did not look at it.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Then Dora held my flowers to Jip to smell.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Smell, however, doesn’t have any known dimensions.

(Humans Can Identify More Than 1 Trillion Smells, NIH, US)

A disorder characterized by an abnormal body smell resulting from the growth of bacteria on the body.

(Body Odor, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Body smell resulting from the growth of bacteria on the body.

(Body Odor, NCI Thesaurus)

I heard a gentle sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the smell grew stronger.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You remember, Inspector Martin, when the servants said that on leaving their room they were at once conscious of a smell of powder, I remarked that the point was an extremely important one?”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A type of learning in which repeated exposure to something may affect a person's behavior when they encounter an unrelated object, sound, or smell that occurred at the same time as the initial exposure.

(Conditioning, NCI Dictionary)

A type of learning in which repeated exposure to something may affect a person’s behavior when they encounter an unrelated object, sound, or smell that occurred at the same time as the initial exposure.

(Conditioned response, NCI Dictionary)

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