sniff

/snif/US // snɪf //UK // (snɪf) //

嗅,闻,嗅嗅,嗅闻

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to draw air through the nose in short, audible inhalations.
- : to clear the nose by so doing; sniffle.
- : to smell by short inhalations.
- : to show disdain, contempt, etc., by or as by sniffing.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to perceive by or as by smelling: to sniff a scandal.
- : to inhale through the nose: to sniff the air.

n.名词 noun

verbbreathe in

Forms: sniffing

Synonyms

One of the final sniff tests happens when the car is fully assembled.
It’s extremely important to keep dogs and other pets away from porcupines, as these rodents won’t hesitate to defend themselves, and can take even a curious sniff as a threat if they feel vulnerable.
The flesh should give slightly when squeezed, and when you take a sniff, the aroma should be unmistakable—somewhere between melon, pineapple, and very ripe peaches.
Look at Billy Carter, my sweater-vested companions sniff derisively; look at Clinton.
But even paranoid melodramatic self-aggrandizers sniff out nefarious and tentacular plots from time to time.
If Letizia did know how to sniff out a media rat in her camp, it was undoubtedly due to her professional training as a journalist.
Duane and Dicky lope backstage afterwards to “do some sniff,” as Dicky terms it.
Late in the afternoon, the day being warm, I raised the window again and leaned out to get a sniff of air.
He was coming out, like myself, to sniff the air; and I was not surprised, for its sweetness after the rain was intoxicating.
Watch sat down gravely near it, and gave an approving sniff at intervals.
The warm wind bore to them the sniff of the sand-dunes, spiced groves, and genii's islands far to southward.

/snif/US // snɪf //UK // (snɪf) //

嗅,闻,嗅嗅,嗅闻

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to draw air through the nose in short, audible inhalations.
- : to clear the nose by so doing; sniffle.
- : to smell by short inhalations.
- : to show disdain, contempt, etc., by or as by sniffing.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to perceive by or as by smelling: to sniff a scandal.
- : to inhale through the nose: to sniff the air.

n.名词 noun

verbbreathe in

Forms: sniffing

Synonyms

One of the final sniff tests happens when the car is fully assembled.
It’s extremely important to keep dogs and other pets away from porcupines, as these rodents won’t hesitate to defend themselves, and can take even a curious sniff as a threat if they feel vulnerable.
The flesh should give slightly when squeezed, and when you take a sniff, the aroma should be unmistakable—somewhere between melon, pineapple, and very ripe peaches.
Look at Billy Carter, my sweater-vested companions sniff derisively; look at Clinton.
But even paranoid melodramatic self-aggrandizers sniff out nefarious and tentacular plots from time to time.
If Letizia did know how to sniff out a media rat in her camp, it was undoubtedly due to her professional training as a journalist.
Duane and Dicky lope backstage afterwards to “do some sniff,” as Dicky terms it.
Late in the afternoon, the day being warm, I raised the window again and leaned out to get a sniff of air.
He was coming out, like myself, to sniff the air; and I was not surprised, for its sweetness after the rain was intoxicating.
Watch sat down gravely near it, and gave an approving sniff at intervals.
The warm wind bore to them the sniff of the sand-dunes, spiced groves, and genii's islands far to southward.