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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.
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