Smell | Mean of smell in English Dictionary

/ˈsmɛl/

• Noun
• the quality of a thing that you can sense with your nose
1. the distinctive smell of onions
2. the smell [=scent] of her perfume
• an unpleasant odor
1. What is that smell?
• the ability to notice or recognize odors
1. Dogs have a keen sense of smell.

• an act of smelling something
1. One smell [=whiff] of this perfume and you will fall in love with it.
• Verb
• to use your nose to sense smells
1. She leaned over and smelled the flowers.
2. She smelled [=sniffed] the milk to see if it was sour.
• to be able to use your nose to sense smells
1. I have a cold right now so I can't smell.
2. I can't smell anything because I'm so stuffed up.
• to notice something because of its smell
1. I could smell dinner cooking.
2. I think I smell gas.
• to have a particular smell
1. This car smells like mold.
2. That soup smells good.
3. He smelled of alcohol.
• to have a bad smell
1. Whew, what smells?
2. These sneakers smell. [=stink]
• to sense or detect (something)
1. Can't you smell the profits?
2. As the end of the game got closer, our team began to smell victory. [=began to sense/feel that victory was very near]
3. I smell trouble. [=I think there's going to be trouble]
• to appear or seem to have a certain quality
1. Something doesn't smell [=seem] right about this deal.
• to find (something) by smelling it
1. Police have trained the dogs to smell out [=sniff out] drugs.