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scent English

Meaning scent meaning

What does scent mean?
Definitions in simple English

scent Noun

— A scent is a smell. The scent of fresh bread filled the house. The dogs followed the scent to a hole in the ground.

scent Verb

— If mathx/math sents mathy/math, mathx/math gives mathy/math a smell. The flowers scented the room. He gave her a scented card. — If you scent something such as danger or a story, you have a feeling that it exists. When the president didn't appear, the newspapers scented a story. — ((transitive)) If an animal scents something, it smells it. The deer ran when they scented the hunter.

scent

— noun (= aroma) a distinctive odor that is pleasant — noun an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced — noun (= olfactory property) any property detected by the olfactory system — verb (= nose, wind) catch the scent of; get wind of The dog nosed out the drugs — verb (= perfume) apply perfume to She perfumes herself every day — verb (= odorize) cause to smell or be smelly

Synonyms scent synonyms

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scent English » English

smell perfume odour odor fragrance aroma sniff wind sweet smell nose trail taste sense clue smack odorize key incense hint flavor zest whiff track tinge tincture tang sweetness suspect snuff savor relish olfactory property olfaction odourise nose out good smell fumigate fume flair feel essence body odor wallop vestige trace to stench spot spoor smelling

Topics scent topics

What do people use scent to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive

Smell
Daily life Adornment

Anoint the body
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Hunt
Physical actions Move Pursue

Escape

Conjugation scent conjugation

How do you conjugate scent?

scent · verb

Examples scent examples

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Simple sentences

The flowers give off a very pleasant scent.
This wild rose gives off a sweet scent.
The dog has a keen scent.
The hunting dogs followed the scent of the fox.
The lotus blossoms diffused an inexpressibly pleasant scent.
The scent of musk is one of the best smells there is.
It seems like the cat caught the scent of a mouse.
This flower has a strong scent, can you smell it?
But, soft! Methinks I scent the morning air; brief let me be.
Beauty without grace is like a rose without a scent.
Do the dancing maidens sleep, or are they dead? The scent of the flower says that they are corpses. The evening bell tolls their knell.
Beauty without kindness is like a rose without its scent.
This flower has a scent all its own.
Her exotic perfume has a subtle scent.
There was a fine scent in the room.
The room was pervaded with the scent of perfume.
The scent of lilacs is pervading the garden.
I can feel the scent of resedas.
I can't forget the scent of his hair.
The scent of flowers filled our home.
The scent of earth after rain is called petrichor.
At the foot of the mountain, the fields stretched far and wide and in these fields the cherry blossoms were in bloom, giving off a sweet scent.
The scent of cedar repels moths.

Movie subtitles

We're closer than ever to finding the answers, because scientists have picked up the scent in this cosmic hunt.
Jed fakes a break-in to throw us off the scent.
The scent of dollars is in the air!
George couldn't leave the waiting room where Nana's dresses were giving off a voluptuous scent.
Renfield reacted very violently to its scent.
We sent out police dogs. The best trackers are on the scent to no avail.
Couldn't we say something to put him clean off the scent?
Why not bloodhounds? - The bloodhounds have lost the scent.
It's the scent of the unknown I am attracted to.
And the scent.
Do I scent romance?
They've picked up Dilg's scent.
The right wing press should stop attacking the left wing press to achieve a balance, to throw them off the scent.
Got a scent?
All sensuous magic, scent of flowers, heavy and inebriating.
Not until I have drunk the breath of her mouth and my hands are soaked with the scent of her hair, not until this woman, if she refuses to be my wife, has been my whore!
The bloodhounds have lost the scent.
It's foolish, maybe. but I thought if she saw some of the latest dresses. got the feel of silk, scent of perfume.
Because a boot that had never been worn wouldn't have the scent of the owner and the black one had.
Scent.
Now turn a somersault and beg. - Can you smell scent?
I never did come across scent before.
Mr. Jones. - Yes, Bessie. I got some scent on my hands.
He tried to put me off the scent.
My shark had torn himself from the hook and the scent, or maybe the stain it was, and him bleeding his life away drove the rest of them mad.
This is where the scent leads.
And in order to put you off the scent, I thought of many little disguises.
I don't trust that fellow. We've got to throw him off the scent somehow.
I thought I caught a faint scent of gunpowder in the air, and I wanted to make sure.
Randall probably picked up a scent leading from Marriott to Helen.
Don't you notice the scent?
It was full of her scent.
Rick, the mimosa scent!
The mimosa scent, it's flooding the room.
That was mary's scent.
No, my father only wrote it was my Mother's scent.
The scent's gone.
They may get thrown off the scent.
They only loved your skin, your smooth skin and your scent.

News and current affairs

But if international currency speculators get the scent of near-inevitable profits from an ongoing dollar decline in their nostrils, all Asian central banks together will not be able to keep the dollar high.
But does the uncertainty now circling Blair like a vulture now smell the appetizingly foul scent of a lie?
If we model smell on local terms, we can trace how nasal neurons interact with scent particles, sending signals through a network of other neurons to the brain.
If you are newly in love (or experience a trauma) and a scent is associated with it, you may develop a heightened sensitivity to that scent.
Vietnam remembered remains the stuff of dreams, a voluptuous mix of reproduced scent and sound.

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