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smokeless

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smoke·less  (smkls)
adj.
1. Emitting or containing little or no smoke: smokeless factory stacks.
2. Free from the use of smoking tobacco or from the smoke generated by such use: a smokeless society; a smokeless office setting.
smokeless [ˈsməʊklɪs]
adj
having or producing little or no smoke smokeless fuel
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.smokeless - emitting or containing little or no smoke; "smokeless factory stacks"; "smokeless fuel"; "a smokeless environment"
smoky - marked by or emitting or filled with smoke; "smoky rafters"; "smoky chimneys"; "a smoky fireplace"; "a smoky corridor"
Translations
smokeless [ˈsməʊklɪs] ADJ smokeless fuel → combustible m sin humo
smokeless zone → zona f libre de humos
smokeless
adj zone → rauchfrei; fuel → rauchlos


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It stood there, bare and great and smokeless, like a place not lived in; only in one of the top windows, there was the peak of a nightcap bobbing up and down and back and forward, like the head of a rabbit from a burrow.
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There it was, as sure a fact and as substantial a fact as any serene volcano, standing innocent with its smokeless summit in the blue sky and giving no sign of the rising hell in its bowels.
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The police scouted the theory of suicide, murder was dismissed as absurd, and the blame was thrown upon the Eureka Smokeless Cartridge Company.
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