A Quick and Simple Dictionary

smooth

1. Adjective.  Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
2. Adjective.  Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
3. Adjective.  bland; glib.
4. Adjective.  (context, of a person) suave; sophisticated.
5. Adjective.  (context, of an action) natural; unconstrained.
6. Adjective.  (context, of a motion) unbroken.
7. Adjective.  (chiefly, of water) placid, calm.
8. Adjective.  (context, of an edge) Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
9. Adjective.  (context, of food or drink) Not grainy; having an even texture.
10. Adjective.  (context, of a beverage) Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
11. Adjective.  (mathematics, of a function) Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.
12. Adjective.  (linguistics, classical studies) Lacking marked aspiration.
13. Adverb.  Smoothly.
14. Noun.  Something which is smooth or easy.
15. Noun.  A smoothing action.
16. Noun.  A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
17. Noun.  A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
18. Noun.  (statistics) The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
19. Verb.  To make smooth.
20. Verb.  (statistics, image processing) To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.