smoother

IPA: smˈuðɝ

noun

  • One who, or that which, smooths.
  • In glass-cutting, an abrading-wheel for polishing the aces of the grooves cut by another wheel.
  • (Woodworking) A hand plane set to cut thin shavings, to create a polished surface.
  • (obsolete) A flatterer.
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Examples of "smoother" in Sentences

  • They are smoother from the factory (even the express), get smoother with time, and I prefer the button safety.
  • These are drivers who seek to maximize their fuel economy through techniques such as smoother acceleration and cruise control.
  • For all the hyperventilating about Obama's "socialist" sic designs, his problem is that is just Clinton redux, that is, a smoother face of the oligarchy.
  • Society in general encourages familial networks because ultimately things just run smoother, which is of course a HUGE benefit to the state, when these networks are in place.
  • 'My dear Calvotti,' said my old patron, in Italian smoother and more choicely worded than his English, one language is pretty much the same to me as another, so long as it _is_ a language, and is spoken in Europe.
  • The EITC, in contrast to traditional welfare, creates a "smoother" budget constraint of OABCD, making it theoretically much more likely that an individual's utility-maximizing bundle will include some hours of work.
  • Besfort remains an enigma, while the much younger Rovena comes over as a mildly embarrassingly projection of male desire, little more than a pair of breasts that swell and shrink or, puzzlingly, grow "smoother" as the balance of power shifts in their tormented relationship.
  • After pondering this issue, we decided to add an extra step: The standard charts now running on HuffPost Pollster take the slightly more jagged Kalman Filter trend lines and run them through the same loess regression "smoother" model we have been using for the last three years.

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