"smoke ring" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1854, John Ross Dix, chapter 2, in The Worth of the Worthless, Boston: Shakspeare Division of Sons of Temperance, page 46",
          "text": "Puff—puff—puff—went John’s pipe; and as the circling smoke-rings went up, the pictures therein framed became as distinct as if they had been drawn by the delicate pencil of Hammatt Billings.",
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          "ref": "1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Five Orange Pips”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, published 1892",
          "text": "Then he lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling.",
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          "ref": "1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 1, in The Hobbit, New York: Ballantine, published 1982, page 13",
          "text": "He was blowing the most enormous smoke-rings, and wherever he told one to go, it went—up the chimney, or behind the clock on the mantelpiece, or under the table, or round and round the ceiling; but wherever it went it was not quick enough to escape Gandalf. Pop! he sent a smaller smoke-ring from his short clay-pipe straight through each one of Thorin’s.",
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          "text": "An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.",
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          "text": "A smoke ring persists for a surprisingly long time, illustrating the slow rate at which viscosity dissipates the energy of a vortex."
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        "A ring of smoke exhaled by a smoker."
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "smoking trick",
          "word": "savurengas"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "smoking trick",
          "word": "rengas"
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          "sense": "smoking trick",
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          "word": "rond de fumée"
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          "word": "ronds de fumée"
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