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Definition: Smoothen |
SmoothenVerb1. Make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing; "smooth the surface of the wood". 2. (of surfaces) make shine; "shine the silver, please"; "polish my shoes". 3. Become smooth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SmoothenSynonyms: polish (v), shine (v), smooth (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: roughen (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Smoothness | Verb: smooth, smoothen; plane; file; mow, shave; level, roll; macadamize; polish, burnish, calender, glaze; iron, hot-press, mangle; lubricate; (oil). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Smoothen |
| English words defined with "smoothen": launch. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "smoothen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 磨平 (smoothened). (various references) | ||||||||||
Indonesian | memuluskan, memapakkan (flatten). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 부ë"œëŸ½ê²Œí•˜ì‹ì‹œìš". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oothensmay ทำให้เรียบ (lay, level, level off). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "smoothen": smoothened, smoothening, smoothens. (additional references) | |
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"Smoothen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sgothan, smoothe, Solothurn, soothen, southen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "smoothen" (pronounced smuw"thun) |
| 3 | -th u n | heathen. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-m-n-o-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: moonset. | |
-2 letters: ethnos, honest, montes, months, smooth, soothe. | |
-3 letters: ethos, hents, homes, homos, hones, hoots, hosen, meson, meths, monos, monte, month, moons, moose, moots, moste, motes, moths, nomes, nomos, noose, notes, omens, onset, seton, shent, shone, shoon, shoot, shote, smote, snoot, sooth, steno, stone, thens, those, tomes, tones, toons. | |
-4 letters: eons, eths, hems, hens. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-m-n-o-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: hometowns, smoothens, townhomes. | |
+2 letters: monotheism, monotheist, smoothened, smoothness, theonomies, theonomous, unsmoothed. | |
+3 letters: besmoothing, homogenates, homopterans, monotheisms, monotheists, nephrostome, resmoothing, smoothening, taphonomies. | |
+4 letters: chronometers, hematogenous, hemoproteins, heteronomies, heteronomous, monotheistic, moonlighters, nephrostomes, northernmost, smoothnesses, southernmost, theobromines, thromboxanes. | |
+5 letters: chemisorption, chromocenters, chronometries, commonwealths, enantiomorphs, endotheliomas, entomophagous, entomophilies, entomophilous, hemodilutions, homogeneities, hymenopterons, hymenopterous, loathsomeness, metallophones, normothermias, parathormones, photoemission, photomontages, phytohormones, rhodomontades, thrombokinase, tomboyishness, toothsomeness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6D 6F 6F 74 68 65 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -- --- --- - .... . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101101 01101111 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S m o o t h e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006D 006F 006F 0074 0068 0065 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5379818186747180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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