Iron vs Smooth - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng
, title= (uncountable, physics, chemistry, metallurgy) A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.
(uncountable, countable, metallurgy) Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
(countable) A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus.
Shackles.
(slang) A handgun.
(uncountable) A dark shade of the colour/color silver.
A male homosexual.
(golf) A golf club used for middle-distance shots.
(uncountable) Great strength or power.
(not comparable) Made of the metal iron.
(figuratively) Strong (as of will), inflexible.
To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
(archaic) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
* Sir Walter Scott
To furnish or arm with iron.
Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The outlines must be smooth , imperceptible to the touch, and even, without eminence or cavities.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
*{{quote-book, year=2005, author=Lesley Brown, title=Sophist, extra=, by=(Plato)
, passage=Teaching that’s done by talking seems to have one rough path and another part which is smoother .}}
Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
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* 2011 , Phil McNulty,
*:England's path to Poland and Ukraine next summer looked to be a smooth one as goals from Ashley Young and Darren Bent gave them a comfortable lead after 31 minutes.
Bland; glib.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:This smooth discourse and mild behavior oft / Conceal a traitor.
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, passage=This feeling, grounded on the experience of centuries of oppression, was not to be allayed by smooth explanations on the part of the advocates of the Constitution.}}
Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:the only smooth poet of those times
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join / The varying verse, the full-resounding line.
*(John Gay) (1685-1732)
*:When sage Minerva rose, / From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows.
(lb) Suave; sophisticated.
*{{quote-book, year=2003, author=T. Lewis Humphrey, isbn=0595272606, title=
, passage=He was so smooth and handsome. He knew just what to say and when to say it.}}
(lb) Natural; unconstrained.
*{{quote-book, year=2006, author=Mary Kay Moskal and Camille Blachowicz, title=
, passage=In order for a reading to be smooth and effortless, readers must be able to recognize and read words accurately, automatically, and quickly.}}
(lb) Unbroken.
*{{quote-book, year=1927, author=United States (National Guard Bureau), title=
, page=181
, passage=Demonstrate first by the numbers and then as one smooth movement.}}
Placid, calm.
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, passage=As we worked to the southward, we picked up fair weather, and enjoyed smooth seas and pleasant skies.}}
(lb) Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
*{{quote-book, year=1994, author=Robert E. Swanson, isbn=0801845564, title=
, passage=A leaf having a smooth margin, without teeth or indentations of any kind, is called entire.}}
*{{quote-book, year=1997, author=Christopher Dickey, isbn=0684842009, title=
, passage=Out of the handles flipped the smooth blade and the serrated blade, which was dangerously sharp, the flathead screwdrivers, the Phillips screwdriver, the can opener, the awl.}}
(lb) Not grainy; having an even texture.
*{{quote-book, year=1997, author=Lou Seibert Pappas, isbn=0811815730, title=
, passage=A compact and stylish design, it produces 1 generous quart of excellent, smooth ice cream in 20 to 25 minutes.}}
(lb) Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
*{{quote-book, year=2002, author=Candace Irvin, isbn=0373079362, title=
, passage=The coffee was smooth , so smooth she took another sip.}}
Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.
*{{quote-book, year=2003, author=Eric W. Weisstein, isbn=1584883472, title=
, passage=Any ANALYTIC FUNCTION is smooth . But a smooth function is not necessarily analytic.}}
Lacking marked aspiration.
*{{quote-book, year=1830, author=Benjamin Franklin Fisk, title=
, passage=
Smoothly.
* Shakespeare
Something that is , or that goes smoothly and easily.
* Bible, Genesis xxvii. 16
* {{quote-book, year=1860, author=Anne Manning, title=The Day of Small Things
, passage=Things are often equalized by roughs and smooths being set against one another.}}
A smoothing action.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=Julienne Van Loon, title=Road Story, isbn=1741146216
, passage=She brushes down her hair with a little bit of spit and a smooth of her hand and opens the bright green door, walking a few metres, squinting.}}
A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
* {{quote-book, year=1916, author=William Ernest Castle and Sewall Wright, title=Studies of Inheritance in Guinea-pigs and Rats
, passage=In the 4-toe stock there is a wide gap between the lowest rough and the smooths which come from the same parents.}}
A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
* {{quote-book, year=1999, author=Peter Childs and Mike Storry, title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture, isbn=0806991356
, passage=By the early 1970s, skinhead culture began to mutate into the variant ‘white ethnic’ styles of the suedeheads and smooths .}}
(statistics) The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
* {{quote-book, year=1990, author=Wolfgang Härdle, title=Applied Nonparametric Regression, isbn=0521429501
, passage=A smooth of the potato data set has already been given in Figure 1.2.}}
To make smooth or even.
* {{quote-book, year=1961, author=William Gibson, title=The Miracle Worker, isbn=0573612382
, passage=She smooths her skirt, looking as composed and ladylike as possible.}}
To make straightforward.
* 2007 , Beth Kohn, Lonely Planet Venezuela (page 379)
(statistics, image processing, digital audio) To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
* {{quote-book, year=1999, author=Murray R. Spiegel and Larry J. Stephens, title=Schaum’s Outline of Theory and Problems of Statistics, isbn=0070602816
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As nouns the difference between iron and smooth
is that iron is a common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel while smooth is something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.As adjectives the difference between iron and smooth
is that iron is made of the metal iron while smooth is having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.As verbs the difference between iron and smooth
is that iron is to pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases while smooth is to make smooth or even.As an adverb smooth is
smoothly.iron
English
(wikipedia iron)Noun
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Quotations
* (English Citations of "iron")Synonyms
* (metallic chemical element) ferrum * (tool for pressing clothing) flatiron (old-fashioned), smoothing iron (old-fashioned) * (shackles) shackles * (homosexual) poof, queer * (strength or power) energy, forceHypernyms
* (metallic chemical element) chemical element, metal; atom * (tool for pressing clothing) tool, mechanical device * (shackles) restraint * (handgun) weapon * (dark shade of silver) colour, color; shade; silver * (strength or power) force, might, energyHyponyms
* (shackles) leg irons * (golf club) driving iron, long iron, short iron, , * (strength or power) ironmanMeronyms
* (parts or members of metallic chemical element) electron, neutron, protonHolonyms
* (metallic chemical element) molecule (sometimes)Coordinate terms
* (tool for pressing clothing) mangleDerived terms
* angle iron * arsenical iron * bar iron * barking iron * beak-iron * beck-iron * bick-iron * big iron * Bessemer iron * bog iron * bog iron ore * boom-iron * box iron * branding iron * cast iron * cast-iron * chromate of iron * chrome iron * chrome iron ore * chromic iron * climbing iron * copper-iron * corrugated iron * cramp-iron * crimping iron * crisping iron * curling iron * ductile iron * electric iron * fire-irons * flatiron * fresh off the irons * galvanised iron * galvanized iron * gamma-iron * grappling iron * gray iron * have too many irons in the fire * in iron * in irons * Iron Age * iron alum * ironbark * iron-bind * iron-binding * iron-blue * iron-blue fly * iron-bound * iron buff * iron carbide * iron-cased * iron cement * ironclad * iron-clad * iron chloride * iron clay * iron cloth * Iron Curtain * iron curtain * iron deficiency * iron-deficient * ironed * iron fall * iron flint * iron-founder * iron-founding * iron-foundry * iron-free * iron gang * iron glance * iron grass * iron-gray * iron-grey * iron-handed * iron-hard * iron hat * iron-headed * ironheads * ironheart * iron-hearted * iron hoof * iron horse * iron hydroxide * iron iodide * ironish * ironless * iron liquor * iron loss * iron maid * iron maiden * iron-maker * iron-making * ironman * iron-manganese tungstate * iron mask * ironmaster * iron meteorite * iron mine * iron-miner * iron-mining * iron mold * iron mould * ironmonger * iron monticellite * iron mountain * ironness * iron ore * iron oxide * iron pan * iron period * iron phosphate * iron-plated * iron play * iron player * iron protoxide * iron pyrites * iron ration * iron salt * iron sand * iron saw * iron scale * iron-shod * ironshot, iron-shot * iron-sick * Ironside * Ironsides * iron-sided * iron shrub * iron smelting * ironsmith * iron sponge * iron stain * iron stand * ironstone * iron strap * iron sulfate * iron sulphate * iron sulfide * iron sulphide * iron-sulfur cluster * iron-sulphur cluster * iron-tree * iron tribromide * iron trichloride * iron tungstate * iron virgin * ironware * ironweed * ironwood * ironwork * ironwort * irony * iron yellow * * * * * Italian iron * jagging iron * leg-iron * midiron * nickel-iron * pig iron * pinking iron * pump iron * put every iron in the fire * red iron oxide * sad-iron * scrap iron * searing-iron * sheet iron * shooting-iron * silicon iron * smoothing iron * snarling-iron * soldering iron * sponge iron * steam iron * stirrup-iron * strike while the iron is hot * sulfate of iron * sulphate of iron * tire iron * tyre iron * toasting-iron * toggle-iron * to have * too many irons in the fire * tow-iron * waffle iron * wear iron * white iron * wrought iron * zinc ironSee also
* cementite * colcothar * ferrate * ferratin * ferredoxin * ferretto * ferrimagnetism * ferrite * ferritin * ferronerie * ferronnerie * * * Flores martis * haem * heme * haematite * hematite * haemochromatosis * hemochromatosis * magnetite * molysite * nife * Prussian blue * rust * steel * synthetic maghemite * wustite *References
Adjective
(en adjective)- She had an iron will.
- He held on with an iron grip.
- an iron constitution
Synonyms
* adamant, adamantine, brassboundHypernyms
* (made of the metal iron) metal, metallicHyponyms
* (made of the metal iron) wrought-ironSee also
* ferrous, ferricDerived terms
* iron cap * iron chink * Iron Cross * Iron Duke * iron-faced * iron-fisted * Iron Guard * iron gum * iron gum tree * iron hand * iron horse * iron jubilee * iron law * ironly * iron lung * iron mike * iron oak * iron paper * iron sleep * iron slumber * iron walls * iron wedding * iron-willed * iron-witted * iron-wordedVerb
(en verb)- Ironed like a malefactor.
- to iron a wagon
Synonyms
* (to pass an iron over) pressCoordinate terms
* (to pass an iron over) mangleDescendants
* Japanese:Derived terms
* ironer * ironing * iron-on * iron out * non-iron * unironedsmooth
English
(wikipedia smooth)Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal) * (verb) smootheAdjective
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Synonyms
* evenAntonyms
* rough * uneven * bumpyDerived terms
* smooth breathing * smooth collie * smooth jazz * smooth move * smooth muscle * smooth operator * smooth sailing * smoothen * smoothie * smoothly * smoothnessAdverb
(er)- Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Noun
(en noun)- The smooth of his neck.
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- Caracas can be a tough place but the tremendously good-natured caraqueños smoothed my passage every step of the way.
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