TO SMOOTH

Definition: SMOOTH

SMOOTH

Adjective

1. Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror".

2. Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"; "affable, suave, moderate men...smugly convinced of their respectability" - Ezra Pound.

3. (botany) of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth.

4. Not marked with wrinkles; "unwrinkled cheeks".

5. Smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"; "liquid prose".

6. (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected; "a legato passage".

7. Without chinks or crannies.

8. Lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly".

Noun

1. The act of smoothing; "he gave is hair a quick smooth".

Verb

1. 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. Free from obstructions; "smooth the way towards peace negociations".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Statistics

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Crosswords: TO SMOOTH

Books

• It's Not As Tough As You Think: How to Smooth Out Life's Bumps (reference)

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Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe at the Braden and Van Fossen Works is employed to smooth down pedestals for ships' dining tables. The lathe was recently acquired and refitted to do extra large jobs. Also at the Van F. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tractor pulling wooden floater to smooth the soil. El Indio, real estate development, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The women washed dresses, pink ginghams and flowered cottons, and they hung them in the sun and stretched the cloth to smooth it.

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Political Economy

RUSSIA

Under these conditions, the CBR only needs to make tactical interventions in the foreign exchange markets to smooth volatility. (references)

THAILAND

Current monetary policy does not target a specific level for the baht, but the government has said it will act to smooth volatility in the exchange rate. (references)

PERU

A third rescheduling was completed on July 20, 1996, under which the Club creditors agreed to reschedule approximately $1 billion in "official debt" payments coming due between 1996 and 1999, and to reschedule some debt originally rescheduled in 1991 in order to smooth out Peru's debt service profile. (references)

Trade

Japan

Correct packing, marking, and labeling are critical to smooth customs clearance in Japan. (references)

Travel

Bangladesh

Foreign visitors often find that hosting meals for their Bangladeshi agents or business contacts helps to smooth business negotiations. (references)

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Expression using "TO SMOOTH": to smooth edges. Additional references.

Chinese 

抿 (purse up). (various references)

Danish

udstrække (to straighten), udrette (to straighten), udligne (join, link-up, to smoothe), udjaevne (to smoothe), regulere (to regulate), planere (plan), korrigere (correct). (various references)

Dutch

effenen (even, level, make smooth, smooth), aanpassen (accommodate, accomodate, adapt, adjust, attempt, attune, fit, fix, mount, place, test, try, try on, tune). (various references)

Finnish

tasata (distribute evenly, divide evenly, divide into equal parts). (various references)

French

régler (to regulate, to tweak), déplisser après le foulage (to straighten), ajuster (to adjust, to currently adjust, to fit, to smoothe). (various references)

German

Glätten (even, face, iron, make smooth, neaten, plane, polish, polish up, sleek, smooth, smooth away, smooth out, straight out). (various references)

Greek 

εξομαλύνω (smooth, to regulate, to smoothe), ομαλοποιώ (normalize). (various references)

Hungarian

simítóz, simává tesz, simává lesz, simára munkál, letompít (to blunt, to dim, to mute, to put a damper on, to soften, tone down, unbrace), legyalul (to bulldoze, to pare), lecsiszol (abrade, to abrade, to bur, to burr, to emery, to grind a lens, to grind down a lens, to scour), lecsillapít (appease, calm down, hush, quell, quiet down, reconcile, to appease, to assuage, to calm, to mollify, to quell, to reconcile, to salve, to stroke down, to tranquillize, tranquillize, wet blanket), elsimul (to blow over), elsimít (iron out, to accommodate, to compromise, to finish, to make even, to reconcile), elegyenget (to grade, to level, to make even), egyenget (smooth the way, to align, to dub, to hone, to pioneer). (various references)

Italian

stirare le pieghe di follatura (to straighten), interpolare (interpolate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

執り成す (to intervene, to mediate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とりなす (to intervene, to mediate). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay oothsmay

Portuguese

regularizar (methodize, regularize, regulate), alisar após pisoamento (to straighten). (various references)

Spanish

deshacer los pliegues (to straighten), descoser los pliegues (to straighten). (various references)

Swedish

jämna ut (even out, smooth out). (various references)

levo. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: mottos, smooth, tooths.

-3 letters: homos, hoots, moots, moths, motto, motts, ottos, shoot, shott, sooth, tooth, toots.

-4 letters: homo, hoot, host, hots, mhos, moos, moot, mosh, most, moth, mots, mott, ohms, oohs, oots, otto, shmo, shoo, shot, soot, soth, toms, toom, toot, tosh, tost, tots.

-5 letters: hot, mho, moo, mos, mot, ohm, oho, ohs, oms.

+1 letter: toothsome.

+3 letters: motormouths, toothsomely.

+4 letters: cottonmouths, phototropism, trichotomous.

+5 letters: methodologist, photomontages, phototropisms, somatotrophin, thoracotomies, toothsomeness.