smooth

Definition of smooth in English English dictionary: natural; unconstrained; Not grainy; having an even texture; To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise; suave; sophisticated; unbroken; Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent; bland; glib; A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain; Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough; Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain; Lacking marked aspiration; To make smooth; A smoothing action; placid, calm; A domestic animal having a smooth coat; Smoothly; The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure; Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated; Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents
We hope for a smooth transition to the new system.; Something which is smooth or easy; {v} to make even or easy, calm, flatter; {a} even on the surface, soft, flattering; To ease; to regulate; You use smooth to describe something that is going well and is free of problems or trouble. Political hopes for a swift and smooth transition to democracy have been dashed + smoothly smooth·ly So far, talks at GM have gone smoothly; Gently flowing; moving equably; not ruffled or obstructed; as, a smooth stream; the act of smoothing; "he gave his hair a quick smooth"; A balanced beer, with no flavors pronounced over any others, that gives a mouth feel devoid of any sharpness or roughness; The tactile sensation for a wine's lack of astringency; (of surfaces) make shine; "shine the silver, please"; "polish my shoes"; The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths; of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth; To give a smooth or calm appearance to; {f} make smooth, make even, remove irregularities or roughness; remove difficulties; soothe, calm; refine; become smooth; not marked with wrinkles; "unwrinkled cheeks"; lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly"; If you describe a drink such as wine, whisky, or coffee as smooth, you mean that it is not bitter and is pleasant to drink. This makes the whiskeys much smoother. rough, harsh; without chinks or crannies; A moderately low level of oily material suspended in the coffee beverage Result of fats in the beans present in perceptible amounts; Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent; {s} level, even, not rough, flat; free from obstacles, unhindered; calm, serene, tranquil; polished, suave; free from lumps, having an even texture; mellow; glib, ingratiating; Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair; free from obstructions; "smooth the way towards peace negociations"; To free from obstruction; to make easy; A smooth surface has no roughness, lumps, or holes. a rich cream that keeps skin soft and smooth. a smooth surface such as glass The flagstones beneath their feet were worn smooth by centuries of use. rough; Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain; {i} act of smoothing; part or place that is free from irregularities and roughness; To free from harshness; to make flowing; having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror"; make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing; "smooth the surface of the wood"; Not rough (compare glabrous); Sound reproduction having no irritating qualities; free from HF peaks, easy and relaxing to listen to Effortless Not necessarily a positive system attribute if accompanied by a slow, uninvolving character; Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless; the act of smoothing; "he gave his hair a quick smooth" make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing; "smooth the surface of the wood" free from obstructions; "smooth the way towards peace negociations" lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly" having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror" of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth; smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"; "affable, suave, moderate men smugly convinced of their respectability" - Ezra Pound; Quality of a wine rich in dry extract, glycerine and in pectic substances; To flatter; to use blandishment; To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault; 1 Infinitely differentiable; possessing infinitely many derivatives For example, sin(x) is a smooth function, while |x|^3 is not More complicated mathematical objects such as manifolds are called smooth if they are defined or described by smooth functions 2 Continuously differentiable; possessing a continuous tangent or derivative; That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything; A smooth line or movement has no sudden breaks or changes in direction or speed. This exercise is done in one smooth motion. + smoothly smooth·ly Make sure that you execute all movements smoothly and without jerking; To make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron; Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the functions domain; If you describe a man as smooth, you mean that he is extremely smart, confident, and polite, often in a way that you find rather unpleasant. Twelve extremely good-looking, smooth young men have been picked as finalists; A smooth liquid or mixture has been mixed well so that it has no lumps. Continue whisking until the mixture looks smooth and creamy lumpy; A smooth ride, flight, or sea crossing is very comfortable because there are no unpleasant movements. The active suspension system gives the car a very smooth ride. bumpy, rough; An agreeable and harmonious flavour showing balance on the palate Opposite of astringent or rough; smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"; "liquid prose"; To make smooth. (also "smoothe")"; without breaks between notes; smooth and connected; "a legato passage"; Bland; mild; smoothing; fattering
smooth as a baby's bottom: Extremely smooth
smooth call: To call a raise, as opposed to folding or reraising, often to disguise the strength of one's hand
smooth fox terrier: A breed of fox terrier having a smooth, flat, but hard and dense coat
smooth fox terriers: plural form of smooth fox terrier
smooth muscle: Involuntary muscle which is found within the intestines, throat, uterus, and blood vessel walls
smooth operator: A person who accomplishes tasks with efficiency and grace, especially one with verbal skills who is persuasive in interpersonal relationships, negotiation, etc
Alexander lit up Connecticut for 34 points in a Big East quarterfinal win last week. He is a smooth operator who can score in a variety of ways.
smooth operator: A skillful, manipulative person, con artist, or clever scoundrel
He plays the hospital administrator, a fast-talking smooth operator who cons patients and doctors alike.
smooth operators: plural form of smooth operator
smooth sailing: Used to describe an activity that is not encountering any problems
We had some problems at the very beginning, but it's been smooth sailing since the second week or so.
smooth snake: A nonvenomous snake, Coronella austriaca, native to Eurasia
smooth snakes: plural form of smooth snake
smooth-leaved: Having smooth leaves; used mainly in the names of various plants
smooth endoplasmic reticulum: (Biyoloji) (A part of) endoplasmic reticulum that is tubular in form (rather than sheet-like) and lacks ribosomes. Its functions include lipid synthesis, carbohydrate metabolism, calcium concentration, drug detoxification, and attachment of receptors on cell membrane proteins
smooth muscle: (Anatomi) Muscle tissue that contracts without conscious control, having the form of thin layers or sheets made up of spindle-shaped, unstriated cells with single nuclei and found in the walls of the internal organs, such as the stomach, intestine, bladder, and blood vessels, excluding the heart
smooth talking: (adjective) (informal) persuasive
smooth-textured: Having a smooth, fine-grained structure, fine-textured
smooth alder: common shrub of the eastern United States with smooth bark
smooth as marble: extremely smooth, not at all rough or coarse
smooth aster: a variety of aster
smooth collie: A collie similar to the rough collie but having a short dense flat coat
smooth crabgrass: a weed
smooth darling pea: erect or trailing perennial of eastern Australia having axillary racemes of blue to purple or red flowers
smooth difficulties away: solve problems, make problems disappear
smooth dogfish: Any of several dogfishes lacking a spine in front of the dorsal fin, especially a species (Mustelus canis) found abundantly on the American Atlantic coast and often used in classrooms for dissection and study
smooth down: calm down, make relaxed
smooth fox terrier: A small fox terrier of a breed developed in England, having a smooth white coat with patches of black or tan
smooth hammerhead: fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver
smooth hound: Any dogfish of the genus Mustelus, especially a smooth dogfish (M. mustelus) of southern Europe, found occasionally in American Atlantic waters
smooth lip fern: southeastern United States to northern Mexico and Jamaica
smooth muscle: Usually the middle layer of an artery, which contains elastic and performs automatic tasks, such as tightening blood vessels
smooth muscle: a muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart)
smooth muscle: muscle tissue that does not appear striated under the microscope; has the form of thin layers or sheets
smooth muscle: muscle that performs automatic tasks, such as constricting blood vessels
smooth muscle: Sometimes called involuntary muscle A type of muscle found many places in the body, including the walls of the airways (It is called smooth muscle simply because of how it looks under a microscope, to distinguish it from striated muscle, which is what makes up the heart as well as voluntary (skeletal) muscle )
smooth muscle: Involuntary muscle tissue in the walls of viscera and blood vessels
smooth muscle: muscle tissue that does not appear striated under the microscope; has the form of thin layers or sheets a muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart)
smooth muscle cell: cells of the smooth muscles
smooth off: plane, remove roughness
smooth one's brow: calm down, make relaxed
smooth one's rumpled feathers: calm down, make relaxed
smooth out: If you smooth out a problem or difficulty, you solve it, especially by talking to the people concerned. Baker was smoothing out differences with European allies It's O.K. I smoothed things out
smooth out: free from obstructions; "smooth the way towards peace negociations"
smooth out differences: settle disagreements
smooth over: If you smooth over a problem or difficulty, you make it less serious and easier to deal with, especially by talking to the people concerned. an attempt to smooth over the violent splits that have occurred The Chancellor is trying to smooth things over
smooth plane: a small plane for finish work
smooth rumpled feathers: recover, get over an insult
smooth softshell: river turtle of Mississippi basin; prefers running water
smooth sumac: common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with waxy compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries
smooth water runs deep: people who think deeply are persons of little words
smooth winterberry holly: a holly shrub
smooth woodsia: rock-inhabiting fern of Arctic and subarctic Europe to eastern Asia
smooth-faced: having a sleek face; friendly; two-faced
smooth-haired fox terrier: a fox terrier with smooth hair
smooth-shaven: has gone through a clean shave
smooth-talking: A smooth-talking man talks very confidently in a way that is likely to persuade people, but may not be sincere or honest. the smooth-talking conman who has wrecked their lives. = silver-tongued. a smooth-talking person is good at persuading people and saying nice things, but you do not trust them
smooth-tongued: speaks in a slick manner, is toady to others
smoother: Comparative form of smooth: more smooth
smoother: A device used to smooth something
smoothly: {a} evenly, calmly, gently, easily
smoothness: {n} evenness, mildness, gentleness, softness
Smoothly: smooth
smooth muscle: smooth muscle fibres are long, spindle-shaped cells that contain a single nucleus and lack striations They are usually grouped together in flat sheets forming a muscular portion of a wall around a lumen They are fouind in hte walls of respiratory passages The contraction of smooth muscle is under autonomic (involuntary) control
smooth over: treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly
smooth over: slide; settle difficulties
smoothed: {s} made smooth; made even, having all projections or roughness removed; calmed, soothed
smoothed: made smooth by ironing
smoothed: past of smooth
smoother: comparative of smooth
smoother: comparative of smooth with an even surface (without points, lumps or rough patches) (opposite: rough)
smoother: a power tool used for sanding wood; a loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor
smoother: {i} one who smooths; tool which removes roughness
smoother: One who, or that which, smooths
smoother: Tool of bone for smoothing some other object
smoother: - either a wooden paddle for smoothing the sides of wet, freshly turned pottery, or the person who smooths out turning marks with a wet cloth
smoothest: Superlative of smooth
smoothing: the action of correcting the geometry of edges
smoothing: A "rounding-off" of a curve, removing minor peaks and valleys, to create a more readable curve, using a method that is equivalent to warbling the input signal
smoothing: Also known as antialiasing, this is the electronic process of eliminating or reducing jaggies in an image
smoothing: present participle of smooth
smoothing: Enhances the appearance of incoming faxes by making the lines smooth and takes no additional time
smoothing: An edge that has been worn smooth and rounded from use in scraping or drilling
smoothing: Font smoothing is Microsoft's term for *grey-scale or *anti-aliased type
smoothing: Averaging pixels with their neighbors It reduces contrast and simulates an out-of-focus image
smoothing: An editing tool which averages pixels with their neighbors to reduces contrast and simulate an out-of-focus image
smoothing: The adjustment or manipulation of a data set to fit a model or curve, as in the use of the alpha factor in exponential smoothing
smoothing: A set of procedures for removing short-range erratic variation from lines, surfaces, or data series
smoothing: Smooth, v
smoothing: Techniques/procedures for removing small erratic changes from data This is usually applied to line and surface data In mapping applications this is often used to create a better visual product -- may be referred to as smoothed data
smoothing: The adjusting of a bitmap image by rounding the jagged edges to give them a more uniform look
smoothly: with no problems or difficulties; "put the plans into effect quickly and smoothly"
smoothly: with no problems or difficulties; "put the plans into effect quickly and smoothly" in a smooth and diplomatic manner; "`And now,' he said smoothly, `we will continue the conversation'
smoothly: In a smooth manner
smoothly: in a smooth manner, gently; without roughness or projections, evenly; without obstructions, without problems or difficulty; calmly; suavely
smoothly: in a smooth and diplomatic manner; "`And now,' he said smoothly, `we will continue the conversation'
smoothly: in a smooth and diplomatic manner; "`And now,' he said smoothly, `we will continue the conversation'"
smoothly: with great ease and success; "in spite of some mishaps, everything went swimmingly"
smoothness: the quality of being free from errors or interruptions
smoothness: The relative flatness of the tape backing
smoothness: {i} state or quality of being smooth; evenness; quality of being unobstructed; calmness; quality of being polished or suave
smoothness: Moving students through a lesson with few interruptions
smoothness: The surface uniformity of paper Sheets that are flat and even provide better ink dot formation and sharper images
smoothness: Flatness of a sheet of paper, which affects the resolution of the printed image
smoothness: That quality of paper defined by its levelness which allows for pressure consistency in printing, assuring uniformity of print
smoothness: – This measures a paper’s evenness and flatness
smoothness: The even and consistent continuity of a paper surface
smoothness: The property of a paperboard surface related to its degree of uniform evenness (See Roughness)
smoothness: The condition of being smooth
smoothness: the surface characteristic relating to the flatness of a sheet, which affects ink receptivity
smoothness: a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch
smoothness: The surface quality of a sheet of paper, related to the flatness of the sheet Mills classify the smoothness of uncoated papers as follows (from roughest to smoothest): mimeo, vellum, antique, eggshell, wove, satin, and luster Coated papers are classified by gloss
smoothness: A teacher’s ability to avoid problems that will interrupt the flow of a lesson
smoothness: Quality or state of being smooth
smoothness: pleasant touch of a coated surface felt by passing the back of the hand on it
smoothness: relative term designating flatness of a surface
smoothness: a surface characteristic relating to the flatness of a sheet which affects ink receptivity - generally, the smoother the sheet, the sharper the image - (the Sheffield rating classifies a paper's smoothness)
smoothness: The flatness of a sheet of paper, which generally determines the crispness of the image printed on it to top
smoothness: the quality of being free from errors or interruptions a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch
smooths: plural of smooth
smooths: third-person singular of smooth