evaporation vs smoking

evaporation and smoking both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
evaporation	Yes	No	No	No
smoking	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, smoking is a hyponym of evaporation; that is, smoking is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than evaporation:

evaporation: the process of becoming a vapor
smoking: a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion

Other hyponyms of evaporation include boiling, clouding, clouding up, smoke.

evaporation (noun)	smoking (noun)
the process of becoming a vapor	the act of smoking tobacco or other substances
the process of extracting moisture	a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion

evaporation (adjective)	smoking (adjective)
	emitting smoke in great volume