smokescreen

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• smoke screen

Etymology

From smoke + screen

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

smokescreen (plural smokescreens)

1. Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.
2. Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.

   All that talk is just a smokescreen to disguise the fact that he has nothing to say.

Translations

disguise, mask, cover

• Armenian: ծխածածկույթ (hy) (cxacackuytʿ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煙幕 (cmn), 烟幕 (cmn) (yānmù)

• Dutch: rookgordijn (nl) f
• Finnish: savuverho (fi)
• French: écran de fumée (fr) m
• German: Nebelwand (de) f

• Japanese: 煙幕 (ja) (えんまく, enmaku)
• Korean: 연막 (ko) (yeonmak) (煙幕 (ko))
• Latvian: dūmu aizsegs (lv) m
• Polish: zasłona dymna (pl) f
• Russian: дымовая завеса (ru) (dymovája zavésa) f
• Swedish: rökridå (sv) c

anything used to conceal or distract

• Armenian: ծխածածկույթ (hy) (cxacackuytʿ)
• Finnish: savuverho (fi)
• French: écran de fumée (fr) m
• Japanese: 煙幕 (ja) (えんまく, enmaku)

• Latvian: aizsegs (lv) m
• Portuguese: cortina de fumaça (pt) f
• Spanish: cortina de humo (es)
• Swedish: rökridå (sv)