smooth

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.
    — The smooth of his neck.
  2. A smoothing action.
    — She brushes down her hair with a little bit of spit and a smooth of her hand and opens the bright green door, walking a few metres, squinting.
  3. A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
    — In the 4-toe stock there is a wide gap between the lowest rough and the smooths which come from the same parents.
  4. A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
    — By the early 1970s, skinhead culture began to mutate into the variant ‘white ethnic’ styles of the suedeheads and smooths.
  5. The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
    — A smooth of the potato data set has already been given in Figure 1.2.
动词 v.
  1. To make smooth or even. transitive
    — She smooths her skirt, looking as composed and ladylike as possible.
  2. To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten. transitive
    — to smooth cloth with a smoothing iron
  3. To make straightforward or easy. transitive
    — Caracas can be a tough place but the tremendously good-natured caraqueños smoothed my passage every step of the way.
  4. To calm or palliate. transitive
    — to smooth a person's temper
  5. To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
    — […] the 7-month moving averages provide better smoothing of the data in this case than do the 3-month moving averages.
  6. To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur. West-Country
    — Can I smooth your cat?
形容词 adj.
  1. Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
    — The outlines must be smooth, […]imperceptible to the touch, and even, without eminence or cavities.
  2. Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
    — We hope for a smooth transition to the new system.
  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.
    — the only smooth poet of those times
  5. Suave; sophisticated.
    — He was so smooth and handsome. He knew just what to say and when to say it.
  6. Natural; unconstrained.
    — In order for a reading to be smooth and effortless, readers must be able to recognize and read words accurately, automatically, and quickly.
  7. Unbroken.
    — Demonstrate first by the numbers and then as one smooth movement.
  8. Placid, calm.
    — As we worked to the southward, we picked up fair weather, and enjoyed smooth seas and pleasant skies.
  9. Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
    — A leaf having a smooth margin, without teeth or indentations of any kind, is called entire.
  10. Not grainy; having an even texture.
    — A compact and stylish design, it produces 1 generous quart of excellent, smooth ice cream in 20 to 25 minutes.
  11. Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
    — The coffee was smooth, so smooth she took another sip.
  12. Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.
    — Any ANALYTIC FUNCTION is smooth. But a smooth function is not necessarily analytic.
  13. That factors completely into small prime numbers.
  14. Lacking marked aspiration.
    — Οὐ becomes οὐκ before a smooth vowel, and οὐχ before an aspirate.
  15. Involuntary and non-striated.
副词 adv.
  1. Smoothly.
    — smooth-running, smooth-tongued, smooth-spoken

词形变化

smoother comparative smoothest superlative smeeth alternative,dialectal smoothe alternative,archaic,verb smoother comparative smoothest superlative smeeth alternative,dialectal smoothe alternative,archaic,verb smooths plural smeeth alternative,dialectal smoothe alternative,archaic,verb smooths present,singular,third-person smoothing participle,present smoothed participle,past smoothed past smeeth alternative,dialectal smoothe alternative,archaic,verb

词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Old English smōþ
Middle English smothe
Proto-West Germanic *smanþī
Old English smēþe
Middle English smethe
English smooth
From Middle English smothe, smethe, from Old English smēþe, smōþ, both from Proto-West Germanic *smanþī, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots smuith (“smooth”), Saterland Frisian smoud (“smooth”), Low German smood and smödig (“smooth, malleable, ductile”), Dutch smeuïg (“smooth”) (from earlier smeudig).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Old English smōþ
Middle English smothe
Proto-West Germanic *smanþī
Old English smēþe
Middle English smethe
English smooth
From Middle English smothe, smethe, from Old English smēþe, smōþ, both from Proto-West Germanic *smanþī, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots smuith (“smooth”), Saterland Frisian smoud (“smooth”), Low German smood and smödig (“smooth, malleable, ductile”), Dutch smeuïg (“smooth”) (from earlier smeudig).
词源 3
Etymology tree
Old English smōþ
Middle English smothe
Proto-West Germanic *smanþī
Old English smēþe
Middle English smethe
English smooth
From Middle English smothe, smethe, from Old English smēþe, smōþ, both from Proto-West Germanic *smanþī, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots smuith (“smooth”), Saterland Frisian smoud (“smooth”), Low German smood and smödig (“smooth, malleable, ductile”), Dutch smeuïg (“smooth”) (from earlier smeudig).
词源 4
Etymology tree
Old English smōþ
Middle English smothe
Proto-West Germanic *smanþī
Old English smēþe
Middle English smethe
English smooth
From Middle English smothe, smethe, from Old English smēþe, smōþ, both from Proto-West Germanic *smanþī, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots smuith (“smooth”), Saterland Frisian smoud (“smooth”), Low German smood and smödig (“smooth, malleable, ductile”), Dutch smeuïg (“smooth”) (from earlier smeudig).
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