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Smoother

noun

1.

A power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor. Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, sander.

Smooth

adjective

(compar. smoother; superl. smoothest)

1.

Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities. "A smooth tabletop" , "Smooth fabric" , "A smooth road" , "Water as smooth as a mirror"

2.

Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication. Synonyms: bland, politic, suave. "The manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"

3.

Of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth.

4.

Smooth and unconstrained in movement. Synonyms: fluent, fluid, liquid. "The fluid motion of a cat" , "The liquid grace of a ballerina"

5.

(music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected. Synonym: legato.

6.

Of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence.

7.

Lacking obstructions or difficulties.

8.

(of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves. Synonyms: placid, quiet, still, tranquil, unruffled. "The quiet waters of a lagoon" , "A lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky" , "A smooth channel crossing" , "Scarcely a ripple on the still water" , "Unruffled water"

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"Smoother" Quotes from Famous Books

... ef not taller, an', by gum! a good thirty pound heavier," Emory reflected, with, a growing dismay that he had not those stalwart claims to precedence in height and weight as an offset to the smoother fascinations of ...

— The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

... got to be smoother than that. How do we know they got the old man a prisoner there? What excuse we got for attacktin' a peaceable house? A friend of mine's brother onct got shot up makin' a similar mistake. Maybe Crawford's there. Maybe he ain't. Say he is. All right. There's some gun-play ...

— Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine

... government" attitude. No fresh insight is behind that. It does not promise anything; it does not offer to contribute new values to human life. The machine which exists is accepted in all its essentials: the "goo-goo" yearns for a somewhat smoother rotation. ...

— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann

... far less brave, honest, and manly. Their sensuality might not be so boisterous, but it was more bestial and foul. Strength and manliness, and a blithe, cheery spirit, were ever the badges of the Teuton. But though originally gross and rough, he was capable of a smoother polish, of a glossier enamel, than a more superficial, trivial nature. He was ever deeply thoughtful, and capable of profounder moods of meditation than the lightly-moved children of the South. Sighs, as from the boughs of Yggdrasil, ever breathed through his poetry from of old. ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859 • Various

... connection: "Your hair is about the same colour as hers, but your face is smoother," she observed. "It looks like porcelain. Hers has little stipples, you know, about the nose, when you go close. They seem to ...

— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand

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