Smoother

Definition: Smoother

Smoother

Noun

1. A power tool used for sanding wood; a loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor.

Date "smoother" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1622. (references)

Specialty Definition: Smoother

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Tends machine that smooths rough edges from pen point tips: Places pen points into molds on hinged holding device and closes device to hold pen points stationary during smoothing process. Sprinkles polishing rouge on felt wheel and starts machine. Inserts tongue of holding device into groove on machine bed and moves holding device back and forth in groove as pen point tips work against rotating felt wheel or guides holding device against rotating wheel by hand to smooth surface of pen point tips. Feels tips of pen points with fingers to detect rough areas. (references)
	Shapes felt-hat cones after dyeing to smooth, shape, and remove wrinkles. Pulls hat cone over metal block, presses and rubs hat to smooth and shape cone, and folds and stacks shaped cones flat on worktable for further processing. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Smoother

Synonyms: drum sander (n), electric sander (n), sander (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Smoother

English words defined with "smoother": Passing tone ♦ smooth, smoothen, Spanish dagger ♦ Yucca gloriosa. (references)

Specialty definitions using "smoother": anti-aliasing, auger-machine offbearer ♦ frame rate ♦ lang lay rope ♦ multi-level texture interpolation ♦ OFFBEARER, SEWER PIPE, old ice ♦ Statistical Isolinear Multi Component Analysis ♦ tweening. (references)

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Modern Usage: Smoother

Domain	Usage
Clever	The world would run a lot smoother if more men knew how to dance. (references; author: unknown)
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Commercial Usage: Smoother

Domain	Title
Books	A Smoother Journey (reference) A Smoother Pebble: Mathematical Explorations (reference) Anita Guyton's Anti-Wrinkle Plan: How to Have Smoother, More Youthful Skin in Just 30 Days (reference) It's Not As Tough at Home As You Think: Making Family Life Smoother and Better (reference) Relaxed Singing: Overcoming Basic Obstacles for Smoother Singing [LARGE PRINT] (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Smoother

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	You may often detect a yet smoother and darker water, separated from the rest as if by an invisible cobweb, boom of the water nymphs, resting on it.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Smoother

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		While books are struggling in finding the way, music is off to a smoother start. (references)
		A web of strong personal relationships will help ensure smoother development of business in China. (references)
		CDMA2000 developed by U.S. firms offers a smoother migration passage to 3G. TD-SCDMA developed by the Chinese Academy of Telecommunications Technologies (CATT) claims to be cost effective to migrate from the 2G GSM system to 3G. Although China has not yet decided what technology it will adopt for the 3G wireless telecommunication network, MII has revealed great enthusiasm in CDMA technology on various occasions. (references)
Economic History	Morocco	The government has also embraced a USAID-funded Investor Roadmap process, which in its third phase should implement smoother processes for foreign investors. (references)
	Uzbekistan	Projects included in the program generally get preferential access to foreign exchange as well as additional tax benefits and a smoother path through the bureaucracy. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Smoother

"Smoother" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Smoother" is used about 189 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (comparative)	100%	189	22,353

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Smoother

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "smoother": smoother-of-the-way, smoother-running, smoother-tongued.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Smoother

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
appear help scar smoother softer	20
smoother	10
genie instant line smoother	8
genie smoother	8
smoother skin	4
genie line smoother	4
blendtec smoother	3
genie skin smoother	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Smoother

Language		Translations for "smoother"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		磨平者. (various references)

Danish		polerjern. (various references)

Dutch		glansijzer. (various references)

French		polissoir. (various references)

German		glattere. (various references)

Greek		εργαλείο για γυάλισμα, εργαλείο λειάνσεως, λειαίνων. (various references)

Italian		lisciatoio (sleek, sleeker, slick, sluker, spoon tool). (various references)

Pig Latin		oothersmay

Portuguese		brunidor (bloodstone, bloodstone burnisher blood, burnisher, polisher, polishing machine). (various references)

Russian		разглаживающее устройство.....более гладкий. (various references)

Spanish		pulidor (buff, buffer, polisher, polishing, polishing machine). (various references)

Thai		ปิ�"หน้าทำให้หายใจไม่ออก. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Smoother

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 5, Verse 3
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Mh prosece faulh gunaiki meli gar apostazei apo ceilewn gunaikoV pornhV h proV kairon lipainei son farugga
Latin	405	Vulgate	Favus enim stillans labia meretricis et nitidius oleo guttur eius
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Forsothe an hony comb droppende the lippis of a strumpet, and clerere than oile the throte of hir;
Jacobean English	1611	King James	For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Victorian English	1833	Webster	For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Basic English	1964	Ogden	For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Smoother

Language	Proverbs Chapter 5, Verse 3
Cebuano	Kay ang mga ngabil sa usa ka dumuloong babaye nagpatolo ug dugos, Ug ang iyang baba labi pang mahinlo kay sa lana:
Croatian	Jer s usana žene preljubnice kaplje med i nepce joj je glaðe od ulja,
Danish	Thi af Honning drypper den fremmedes Læber, glattere end Olie er hendes Gane;
Dutch	Want de lippen der vreemde vrouw druppen honigzeem, en haar gehemelte is gladder dan olie.
Finnish	Sillä hunajaa tiukkuvat vieraan vaimon huulet, hänen suunsa on öljyä liukkaampi.
French	Car les lèvres de l`étrangère distillent le miel, Et son palais est plus doux que l`huile;
German	Denn die Lippen der Hure sind süß wie Honigseim, und ihre Kehle ist glätter als Öl,
Hungarian	Mert színmézet csepeg az idegen asszony ajka, és símább az olajnál az õ ínye.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Perempuan nakal, mulutnya semanis madu dan kata-katanya memikat hati,
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Bahwasanya lidah perempuan jalang itu bertitik-titik air madu dan langitan mulutnyapun terlebih licin dari pada minyak.
Maori	Ko nga ngutu hoki o te wahine ke, kei te maturuturunga iho o te honikoma, ngawari iho tona mangai i te hinu.
Norwegian	For en fremmed kvinnes leber drypper av honning, og glattere enn olje er hennes tunge;
Portuguese	Porque os lábios da mulher licenciosa destilam mel, e a sua boca e mais macia do que o azeite;
Rumanian	Cqci buzele femeii strqine strecoarq miere, wi cerul gurii ei este mai lunecos deckt untdelemnul;
Russian	Й�'П НЕ�" ЙУФПЮБАФ ХУФБ ЮХЦПК ЦЕОЩ, Й НСЗЮЕ ЕМЕС ТЕЮШ ЕЕ;
Spanish	Los labios de la mujer extraña gotean miel, y su paladar es más suave que el aceite;
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Smoother

Derivations
	Words beginning with "smoother": smoothers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Smoother" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: smoocher, smoochier, smoothe, snooter, Solothurn. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Smoother

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: resmooth.
	Words within the letters "e-h-m-o-o-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: hooters, mooters, mothers, reshoot, sheroot, shooter, smother, soother, thermos.
	-2 letters: homers, hooter, horste, metros, mooter, morose, mosher, mother, motors, others, reshot, romeos, smooth, soothe, therms, throes, torose.
	-3 letters: ethos, herms, heros, hoers, homer, homes, homos, hoots, horse, horst, meths, metro, moors, moose, moots, mores, morse, morts, moste, motes, moths, motor, omers, ortho, other.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-m-o-o-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: homeports, outhomers, resmooths, smoothers.
	+2 letters: bothersome, ectomorphs, godmothers, mesothorax, resmoothed, smoothbore, thromboses.
	+3 letters: bumbershoot, cytochromes, foremothers, heteroatoms, homeotherms, homopterans, homopterous, housemother, hysterotomy, mesotrophic, motherhoods, motherhouse, mythologers, nephrostome, photometers, resmoothing, rhizotomies, smoothbores, supersmooth, thermoforms, thermoscope.
	+4 letters: atheromatous, bumbershoots, chemotropism, chronometers, gametophores, headforemost, heliotropism, hemoproteins, heterogamous, heteronomies, heteronomous, homoiotherms, housemothers, hydrometeors, mesothoraces, mesothoracic, mesothoraxes, metamorphose, micromethods, moonlighters, motherboards, motherhouses, mothproofers, nephrostomes, northernmost, photometries, phytochromes, protophloems, schoolmaster, southernmost, theobromines, thermoscopes, thrombocytes, thromboxanes, tomographies, tracheostomy, trichotomies.
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