Smile vs Laught - What's the difference?
smile | laught |
A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile? ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
(ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.
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, title= To express by smiling.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
* Byron
To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
* Alexander Pope
To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.
(obsolete) (laugh)
* {{quote-book, year=1638, author=John Wilkins, title=The Discovery of a World in the Moone, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Other truths have beene formerly accounted as ridiculous as this, I shall specifie that of the Antipodes, which have beene denied and laught at by many wise men and great Schollers, such as were Herodotus'', St. ''Austin'', ''Lactantius'', the ''Venerable Bede'', ''Lucretius'' the Poet, ''Procopius'', and the voluminous ''Abulensis with others. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1665-1676, author=Sir John Lauder, title=Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36, chapter=, edition=
, passage=They made this poor fellow beleive that he was only condemned to the galleys, at which he laught , telling that it appeared they knew not he was a smith, so that he could easily file his chaines and run away. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1679, author=Beaumont and Fletcher, title=The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes, chapter=, edition=
, passage=How Epidemick errors by thy Play Were laught out of esteeme, so purged away. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=William Ralph Inge, title=Christian Mysticism, chapter=, edition=
, passage="For this sight I laught mightily, and that made them to laugh that were about me. }}
As verbs the difference between smile and laught
is that smile is to have (a smile) on one's face while laught is past tense of laugh.As a noun smile
is a facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety.smile
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* See alsoDerived terms
* archaic smile * besmile * Chelsea smile * Glasgow smile * smileless * smilet * smiley * vertical smileVerb
(smil)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
- When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled .
- The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky.
- The desert smiled , / And paradise was opened in the wild.
- The gods smiled on his labours.
Derived terms
* smilerStatistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----laught
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