different between smooth vs steam

English

Alternative forms

• smeeth (dialectal)
• (verb): smoothe

Etymology

From Middle English smoothe, smothe, smethe, from Old English sm?þ and Old English sm?þe, both from Proto-Germanic *smanþaz, *smanþiz, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots smuith (“smooth”), Low German smood and smödig (“smooth, malleable, ductile”), Dutch smeuïg (“smooth”) (from earlier smeudig).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smu?ð/
• Rhymes: -u?ð

Adjective

smooth (comparative smoother, superlative smoothest)

1. Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     The outlines must be smooth, […] imperceptible to the touch, and even, without eminence or cavities.

   • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, […].
2. Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
3. Bland; glib.

   • This smooth discourse and mild behavior oft / Conceal a traitor.
4. Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.
   • 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain

     the only smooth poet of those times}}

   • 1713, John Gay, The Fan

     When sage Minerva rose, / From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows.

5. (of a person) Suave; sophisticated.
6. (of an action) Natural; unconstrained.
7. (of a motion) Unbroken.
8. (chiefly of water) Placid, calm.
9. (of an edge) Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
10. (of food or drink) Not grainy; having an even texture.
11. (of a beverage) Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
12. (mathematics, of a function) Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.
13. (mathematics, of a number) That factors completely into small prime numbers.
14. (linguistics, classical studies, of a vowel) Lacking marked aspiration.
15. (of muscles, medicine) Involuntary and non-striated.

Synonyms

• (having a texture lacking friction): even
• (without difficulty or problems): fluid

Antonyms

• rough
• uneven
• bumpy

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

smooth (comparative smoother, superlative smoothest)

1. Smoothly.

Noun

smooth (plural smooths)

1. Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.

   • The smooth of his neck.

   • 1862, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip

     I think you and I will take the ups and the downs , the roughs and the smooths of this daily existence and conversation
2. A smoothing action.
3. A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
4. A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
5. (statistics) The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.

Translations

Verb

smooth (third-person singular simple present smooths, present participle smoothing, simple past and past participle smoothed)

1. (transitive) To make smooth or even.

   Synonym: smoothen

2. (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten.

3. (transitive) To make straightforward or easy.
   • 2007, Beth Kohn, Lonely Planet Venezuela (page 379)

     Caracas can be a tough place but the tremendously good-natured caraqueños smoothed my passage every step of the way.

4. (transitive) To calm or palliate.

   to smooth a person's temper

5. (statistics, image processing, digital audio) To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
6. (West Country) To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• smoothing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• shtoom

English

Etymology

From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English st?am (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ew- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin f?mus (“smoke, steam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti?m/

Noun

steam (usually uncountable, plural steams)

1. The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase.
2. Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
3. The act of cooking by steaming

4. (figuratively) Internal energy for motive power.
   • 1927, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Ladies and Gentlemen (page 129)

     Them that puts the most steam into it will get a finnuf slipped to 'em.

5. (figuratively) Pent-up anger.

6. A steam-powered vehicle.
7. Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
8. (obsolete) Any exhalation.
9. (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.

Synonyms

• (a steam-powered vehicle): steamer

Antonyms

• (fencing): electric

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

steam (third-person singular simple present steams, present participle steaming, simple past and past participle steamed)

1. (cooking, transitive) To cook with steam.

2. (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.

3. (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, / O're his warm blood, that steams into the air.
4. (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Unsuccessfulness of Experiments

     the dissolved amber was plainly discernable swimming like a thin film upon the surface of the liquor, whence, little by little, it steamed away into the air.

5. (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
6. (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.

7. (intransitive) To be covered with condensed water vapor.

8. (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
9. (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
10. (obsolete) To exhale.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:cook

Derived terms

• asteam
• steamer
• steaming
• steam up

Translations

Adjective

steam (not comparable)

1. Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.

Anagrams

• AEMTs, MTase, Mesta, Satem, a-stem, mates, matse, matés, meats, metas, satem, stame, tames, teams

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *staumaz, compare also Dutch stoom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stæ???m/

Noun

st?am m

1. steam (water vapor)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *staumaz.

Noun

steam c (no plural)

1. steam

   Synonym: stoom

Further reading

• “stoom”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011