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smartwatch | smart |

As a noun smartwatch

is wristwatch with functionality beyond timekeeping.

As a proper noun smart is

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smartwatch

English

(Wikipedia)

Noun

(es)
  • wristwatch with functionality beyond timekeeping.
  • mobile device worn on the wrist with a touchscreen display.
  • *{{quote-usenet
    • , year=1991 , monthday=March 22 , author= Brad Templeton , title=How will the police react to secure communications? , id=1991Mar22.084413.25223@looking.on.ca , group=comp.org.eff.talk citation
    Before too long, secure public key cryptosystems will make routine personal communications 100% secure. You'll use E-mail and digital voice, but since it's easy, you'll use security all the time. Your key will probably be stored in a smartcard or smartwatch' that you carry with you. ... Will they have to do lightning raids on people they suspect to grab their computers while they are still on with the keys in ram? Rip your ' smartwatch off your wrist to get your code?
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    • , date = 1997-08-20 , author =Stewart Taggart , title = Swatch Tests Smart-Watch Uses , site =Wired , url = http://wayback.archive.org/web/20000902235410/http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,6220,00.html , accessdate = 2013-10-23 }}
    In Sydney, Australia, test trials are under way of a "smart watch"' that can one day reduce the need for wallets and purses. ... Barnes stressed the trial with CTA is one of a number Swatch is undertaking with different suppliers to better adapt ' smart watches to local conditions and learn their potential.
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    • , year=1997 , monthday=October 29 , author=Joop Kaashoek , title=Re: more on the Newton future... , id=jck-2910971347340001@mg136-191.ricochet.net , group=comp.sys.newton.misc citation
  • *:I certainly hope Newton is not going to die, it is far superior to Windows CE. In fact I hope Apple will license the OS to all the makers of smartphones, smart cars, smart watches , smart ovens, etc.
  • *{{quote-web
    • , date = 2003-06-02 , author =Tony Smith , title = Fossil puts back Palm Wrist PDA launch to 2004 , site =The Register , url = http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/06/02/fossil_puts_back_palm_wrist/ , accessdate = 2013-10-23 }}
    Smartwatch buffs eagerly awaiting the arrival later this month of their Palm OS-based Fossil Wrist PDA are going to be disappointed.
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    • , date = 2012-04-13 , author =Bill Ray , title = It's all in the wrist: E-ink smartwatch Pebble bags $2m , site =The Register , url = http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/13/pebble_kickstarter/ , accessdate = 2013-10-23 }}
    It's all in the wrist: E-ink smartwatch Pebble bags $2m

    See also

    * smart band

    smart

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) smerten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To hurt or sting.
    • After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts !"
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
    • He moved convulsively, and as he did so, said, "I'll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off the strait waistcoat. I have had a terrible dream, and it has left me so weak that I cannot move. What's wrong with my face? It feels all swollen, and it smarts dreadfully."
  • To cause a smart or sting in.
  • * T. Adams
    • A goad that smarts the flesh.
  • To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • No creature smarts so little as a fool.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xi. 15
    • He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) smart, smarte, smerte, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Causing sharp pain; stinging.
  • * Shakespeare
    • How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience.
  • Sharp; keen; poignant.
    • a smart pain
  • Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
  • * 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 19
    • I always preferred the church, and I still do. But that was not smart' enough for my family. They recommended the army. That was a great deal too ' smart for me.
  • Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
  • (often, in combination) Equipped with intelligent behaviour.
    • smart''' bomb'', '''''smart car
    smart'''card'', '''''smart phone
  • Good-looking.
    • a smart outfit
  • Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
    • He became tired of his daughter's sarcasm and smart remarks''.
  • * Young
    • Who, for the poor renown of being smart / Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
  • * Addison
    • a sentence or two, which I thought very smart
  • Sudden and intense.
  • * Clarendon
    • smart skirmishes, in which many fell
  • * 1860 July 9, Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, from Thoreau's bird-lore'', Francis H. Allen (editor), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, 1910), ''Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau , Beacon Press, (Boston, 1993), page 239:
    • There is a smart shower at 5 P.M., and in the midst of it a hummingbird is busy about the flowers in the garden, unmindful of it, though you would think that each big drop that struck him would be a serious accident.
  • (US, Southern, dated) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right .
    • He raised his voice, and it hurt her feelings right smart .
    That cast on his leg chaffs him right smart .
  • (archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
  • * Dryden
    • The stars shine smarter .
  • (archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.
    • a smart gown
  • (archaic) Brisk; fresh.
    • a smart breeze
    Synonyms
    * (exhibiting social ability) bright, capable, sophisticated, witty * (exhibiting intellectual knowledge) cultivated, educated, learned, see also * (good-looking) attractive, chic, stylish, handsome * silly
    Antonyms
    * (exhibiting social ability) backward, banal, boorish, dull, inept * (exhibiting intellectual knowledge) ignorant, uncultivated, simple * (good-looking) garish, , tacky
    Derived terms
    * smart aleck * smart as a whip * smart casual * smart off

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) smerte, from . More above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
  • Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
  • * Milton
    • To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart .
  • * Spenser
    • Counsel mitigates the greatest smart .
  • Smart-money.
  • (slang, dated) A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.
    • (Fielding)

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