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smell

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+2 rate 1. also called Olfaction, the detection and identification by sensory organs of airborne chemicals. The concept of smell, as it applies to humans, becomes less distinct when invertebrates and lower vertebrates (fish and amphibians) are considered, because many lower animals detect chemicals in the environment by means of receptors in various locations on the body and no invertebrate possesses a chemoreceptive structure resembling the vertebrate nasal cavity. For this reason, many authorities prefer to regard smell as distance chemoreception and taste as contact chemoreception. Olfaction by air-breathing vertebrates depends primarily on chemically sensitive nerves with endings in the lining (epithelium) of the nasal cavity. Mammals such as carnivores, which rely heavily on the sense of smell for locating food or for warning against predators, have intricately curled turbinal bones (which support the nasal epithelium), providing greater surface area, thus increasing olfactory sensitivity. In addition to the nasal epithelium, Jacobson's organ, located in the roof of the mouth, also serves for chemoreception in some animals.
+1 rate 2. v (past:) smelt or (esp. US) smelled My hands smell of onions. The drain's blocked and smells disgustingly of rotten fish. This bag's made of plastic, but something's been added to make it smell like leather. That cake smells good. (L only +adjective) There's something in the fridge that smells mouldy. (L only +adjective) Your feet smell (= have an unpleasant smell) . Why don't you wash them? As I'm your best friend, I think I should tell you that your breath smells. If you come up smelling of roses, a difficult, embarrassing or unpleasant situation has not had a bad effect on you when it was expected that it would. When the results of the fraud investigation were announced last week, the staff came up smelling of roses. If a situation smells fishy to you, you believe that there might be some dishonest activity happening. Webber's account of what happened smells distinctly fishy to me. When something smells out a place/smells a place out (US also smells up), it makes the place unpleasant by filling it with its smell. That aftershave of yours is smelling out the whole house. -smelling (suffix) The prisoners are being held in an evil-smelling barn (= one which has an unpleasant smell) near the police headquarters. When we got back to the apartment the place was full of foul-smelling smoke. Bowls of sweet-smelling flowers had been placed on the table.
rate 3. act of smelling, sniffing; sense of smell; scent, odor, fragrance; characteristic quality, aura
rate 4. perceive an odor through the nose by means of the sense of smell; examine with the nose sniff; stink; emit an odor or fragrance; sense, perceive, discern
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