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smooth
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)
- 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, […].
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
- Bland; glib.
- This smooth discourse and mild behavior oft / Conceal a traitor.
- 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.
- 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain
- (of a person) Suave; sophisticated.
- (of an action) Natural; unconstrained.
- (of a motion) Unbroken.
- (chiefly of water) Placid, calm.
- (of an edge) Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
- (of food or drink) Not grainy; having an even texture.
- (of a beverage) Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
- (mathematics, of a function) Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.
- (mathematics, of a number) That factors completely into small prime numbers.
- (linguistics, classical studies, of a vowel) Lacking marked aspiration.
- (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)
- Smoothly.
Noun
smooth (plural smooths)
- 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
- A smoothing action.
- A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
- A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
- (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)
- (transitive) To make smooth or even.
- Synonym: smoothen
- (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten.
- (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.
- 2007, Beth Kohn, Lonely Planet Venezuela (page 379)
- (transitive) To calm or palliate.
- to smooth a person's temper
- (statistics, image processing, digital audio) To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
- (West Country) To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- smoothing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- shtoom
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straight
English
Alternative forms
- streight (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English streight, streght, strei?t, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English stre??an (past participle ?estreaht, ?estreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straught.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?e?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
- Homophone: strait
Adjective
straight (comparative straighter, superlative straightest)
- Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length. [from 14thc.]
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility:
- I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. I admire them much more if they are tall, straight and flourishing.
- “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
- 2011, Adharanand Finn, The Guardian, 22 March:
- The other people, I presume, are supposed to be standing to attention, but they're all smiling at me. The lines are not even straight.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility:
- (of a path, trajectory, etc.) Direct, undeviating. [from 15thc.]
- 1913, John Fox, Jr., The Kentuckians, page 185:
- Now, as the world knows, the straightest way to the heart of the honest voter is through the women of the land, and the straightest way to the heart of the women is through the children of the land; and one method of winning both, with rural politicians, is to kiss the babies wide and far.
- 1913, John Fox, Jr., The Kentuckians, page 185:
- Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique. [from 17thc.]
- 1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge:
- Mr. Coniff: He did not have his hat on straight; that is the one thing, is it?
- 1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge:
- (cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets. [from 19thc.]
- 2011 March 15, Alan Gardner & Barney Ronay, The Guardian:
- Steyn continues and it's all a bit more orderly down his end as O'Brien defends the first three balls with a straight bat and a respectful dip of the head.
- 2011 March 15, Alan Gardner & Barney Ronay, The Guardian:
- Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward. [from 19thc.]
- 2003, Rosie Cowan, The Guardian, 24 April:
- Tony Blair issued a direct challenge to the IRA yesterday when he demanded they give straight answers to three simple questions […].
- 2003, Rosie Cowan, The Guardian, 24 April:
- Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding. [from 16th c.]
- 1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate:
- ‘It wasn't the proper thing, squoire. It wasn't straight.’
- 2010 August 4, The Guardian, Out of prison and trying to go straight [2]:
- How easy is it to go straight after a life spent in and out of prison?
- 1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate:
- Serious rather than comedic.
- 1988, Ed Gould, Entertaining Canadians: Canada's international stars, 1900-1988, Cappis Pr Pub Ltd (?ISBN):
- Allan Blye, a CBC-TV mainstay in the early Sixties, worked as a singer, writer and straight and comedic actor.
- 2004, Tammy Ravas, Peter Schickele: A Bio-bibliography, Greenwood Publishing Group (?ISBN):
- All of Peter Schickele's music, both straight and comedic are integrated side by side in this chapter.
- 2005, Bob McCabe, The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies, Rough Guides Limited:
- More success followed, both straight and comedic, with hits such as Dead Poets' Society (1989), in which Williams scored another Oscar nomination for skilfully handling a classic "rogue teacher" role that hovers just this side of sentimentality, […]
- 1988, Ed Gould, Entertaining Canadians: Canada's international stars, 1900-1988, Cappis Pr Pub Ltd (?ISBN):
- In proper order; as it should be. [from 19thc.]
- 2010, Paul Gallagher, The Observer, 15 August:
- "If you wonder why folks can't take the news seriously, here's Exhibit A," said one blogger. "Lord Jesus, how can the reporter file this story with a straight face?"
- 2010, Paul Gallagher, The Observer, 15 August:
- In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive. [from 19thc.]
- 2008, "Bad vibrations", The Economist, 30 October:
- As of October 29th, three-month dollar Libor (the rate at which banks borrow from each other) had fallen for 13 straight days and was nearly one-and-a-half percentage points below its October 10th level.
- 2008, "Bad vibrations", The Economist, 30 October:
- (tennis) Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set. [from 19thc.]
- 2011 February 10, Press Association:
- Murray started well against Marcos Baghdatis before slumping to defeat in straight sets and the British No1 admitted he may not have been mentally prepared for the rigours of the ATP Tour after a gruelling start to 2011.
- 2011 February 10, Press Association:
- (US, politics) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
- (US, politics) Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others.
- (colloquial) Conventional, mainstream, socially acceptable. [from 20thc.]
- 1998, Eileen Fitzpatrick & Dominic Pride, Billboard, 17 October 1998:
- ‘Her last album was a bit too straight,’ he says, ‘but this one puts her in a more contemporary framework and softens her music.’
- 1998, Eileen Fitzpatrick & Dominic Pride, Billboard, 17 October 1998:
- (colloquial) Heterosexual, attracted to people of the opposite sex.
- 2007, Layla Kumari, The Guardian, 17 September:
- Some of my friends – gay and straight – seem unable to understand the close but platonic nature of my and Gian's relationship, but have been supportive.
- 2007, Layla Kumari, The Guardian, 17 September:
- (colloquial, of a romantic or sexual relation) Occurring between people of opposite sex.
- straight marriage, sex, relationships
- (colloquial) Not using alcohol, drugs, etc. [from 20thc.]
- Synonym: straightedge
- 1989, Gus Van Sant, Drugstore Cowboy:
- For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
- (fashion) Not plus size; thin.
- (rare, now chiefly religion) Strait; narrow.
- (obsolete) Stretched out; fully extended. [15th-16thc.]
- (slang) Thorough; utter; unqualified.
- 2012, Pimpin' Ken, PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game, page 11:
- A real pimp is a gentleman, but these are pimps in gorilla suits. They hang around pimps, they have hoes on the track working for them, they may even look like pimps, but they are straight simps.
- 2012, Pimpin' Ken, PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game, page 11:
- Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat. [from 19thc.]
- (sciences, mathematics) Concerning the property allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain tangent vectors throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
Antonyms
- bent
- crooked
- curved
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ?????
Translations
Adverb
straight (comparative more straight, superlative most straight)
- Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
- The door will be straight ahead of you.
- Go straight back.
- Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
- On arriving at work, he went straight to his office.
- I know thy generous temper well; / Fling but the appearance of dishonour on it, / It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze.
- Continuously; without interruption or pause.
- He claims he can hold his breath for three minutes straight.
Translations
Noun
straight (plural straights)
- Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
- (poker) Five cards in sequence.
- (colloquial) A heterosexual.
- Synonyms: hetero, breeder
- (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mainstreamer
- (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana. [from 20th c.]
- Synonym: straighter
- [1923, J[oseph] Manchon, Le slang : lexique de l'anglais familier et vulgaire : précédé d'une étude sur la pronunciation et la grammaire populaires, p. 296:
- A straight = a straighter = a straight cut, une cigarette en tabac de Virginie.]
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (sutor?to)
- ? Portuguese: straight
Translations
Verb
straight (third-person singular simple present straights, present participle straighting, simple past and past participle straighted)
- (transitive) To straighten.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of A. Smith to this entry?)
See also
Portuguese
Etymology
From English straight.
Noun
straight m (plural straights)
- (poker) straight (five cards in sequence)
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