Smile vs Smeer - What's the difference?
smile | smeer |
Smeer has no English definition.
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.
Smeer is likely misspelled.
Smeer has no English definition.
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.As a verb smile
is to have (a smile) on one's face.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.