smooth |
1. adj. Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough. | |
2. adj. Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents. | |
We hope for a smooth transition to the new system. | |
3. adj. Bland; glib. | |
4. adj. Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent. | |
5. adj. (of a person) Suave; sophisticated. | |
6. adj. (of an action) Natural; unconstrained. | |
7. adj. (of a motion) Unbroken. | |
8. adj. (chiefly of water) Placid, calm. | |
9. adj. (of an edge) Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated. | |
10. adj. (of food or drink) Not grainy; having an even texture. | |
11. adj. (of a beverage) Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent. | |
12. adj. (mathematics, of a function) Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain. | |
13. adj. (math, of a number) That factors completely into small prime numbers. | |
14. adj. (linguistics, classical studies, of a vowel) Lacking marked aspiration. | |
15. adj. (of muscles, medicine) Involuntary and non-striated. | |
16. adv. Smoothly. | |
17. n. Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily. | |
18. n. A smoothing action. | |
19. n. A domestic animal having a smooth coat. | |
20. n. A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain. | |
21. n. (statistics) The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure. | |
22. v. To make smooth or even. | |
23. v. To make straightforward. | |
24. v. (statistics, image processing, digital audio) To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise. | |
25. v. (West Country) To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur. | |
Can I smooth your cat? - | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
slippery |
1. adj. Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc. | |
Oily substances render things slippery. | |
2. adj. (figuratively, by extension) Evasive; difficult to pin down. | |
a slippery person | |
a slippery promise | |
3. adj. (obsolete) Liable to slip; not standing firm. | |
4. adj. Unstable; changeable; inconstant. | |
5. adj. (obsolete) Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals. | |