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smoothly

/smooth/US // smuð //UK // (smuːð) //

顺利地,平稳地,顺利的,顺利

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
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    smooth·er, smooth·est.

    • : free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
    • : generally flat or unruffled, as a calm sea.
    • : free from hairs or a hairy growth: a smooth cheek.
    • : of uniform consistency; free from lumps, as a batter, sauce, etc.
    • : free from or proceeding without abrupt curves, bends, etc.: a smooth ride.
    • : allowing or having an even, uninterrupted movement or flow: smooth driving.
    • : easy and uniform, as motion or the working of a machine.
    • : having projections worn away: a smooth tire casing.
    • : free from hindrances or difficulties: a smooth day at the office.
    • : noting a metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness for a single-cut file.Compare dead-smooth.
    • : undisturbed, tranquil, or equable, as the feelings, temper, etc.; serene: a smooth disposition.
    • : elegant, easy, or polished: smooth manners.
    • : ingratiatingly polite or suave: That salesman is a smooth talker.
    • : free from harshness, sharpness, or bite; bland or mellow, as cheese or wine.
    • : not harsh to the ear, as sound: the smooth music of a ballroom dance band.
    • : Phonetics. without aspiration.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a smooth manner; smoothly.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make smooth of surface, as by scraping, planing, or pressing.
    • : to remove in making something smooth.
    • : to free from difficulties.
    • : to remove from a path.
    • : to make more polished, elegant, or agreeable, as wording or manners.
    • : to tranquilize, calm, or soothe.
    • : Mathematics. to simplify by substituting approximate or certain known values for the variables.
n.名词 noun
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    • : act of smoothing: She adjusted the folds with a smooth of her hand.
    • : something that is smooth; a smooth part or place: through the rough and the smooth.
  1. 1
    • : smooth over, to make seem less severe, disagreeable, or irreconcilable; allay; mitigate: He smoothed over my disappointment with kind words.

Phrases

  • smooth as silk
  • smooth over
  • smooth sailing
  • take the rough with the smooth

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • It’s smooth, it’s velvety, it’s creamy, and when you bite into the beans, they’re falling apart.

  • Part of McGill’s fee will be a bottle of 147-year-old bourbon that “was so smooth that I imagined a green snake slithering across an emerald lawn” — a fitting description for the entire novel.

  • Surfactants in makeup and lotions make the product smoother.

  • While it’s been smooth sailing so far, Grand says he’s prepared if something should go wrong on one of his farming cycles.

  • The Morgan Stanley team doesn’t expect a smooth path upwards and noted that significant challenges remain.

  • Everything was moving ahead smoothly, and continued to for the rest of the year.

  • Everything went smoothly, until the end of the second week: the on-board water filtration system failed.

  • I feel like if we do a couple more records and things are still going smoothly, then we can talk about it.

  • And George Herbert Walker Bush for smoothly overseeing the end of the Cold War.

  • He wanted to act, and he would move whatever needed moving in order to keep the process working smoothly.

  • The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.

  • After the Reserve Banks have been in operation long enough to be running smoothly, not a few branches will doubtless be organized.

  • It goes more smoothly than any engine I ever saw, and is very easy and regular in its stroke.

  • Each article of dress, when taken off, should be placed carefully and smoothly in its proper place.

  • It 67 was that the piece which reads smoothly seldom acts well; whereas a play that gets over the footlights usually reads poorly.