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Smile vs Smiling - What's the difference?

smile | smiling |

As nouns the difference between smile and smiling

is that 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 while smiling is the action of the verb to smile.

As verbs the difference between smile and smiling

is that smile is to have (a smile) on one's face while smiling is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective smiling is

that which smiles or has a smile.

smile

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

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    Derived terms

    * archaic smile * besmile * Chelsea smile * Glasgow smile * smileless * smilet * smiley * vertical smile

    Verb

    (smil)
  • (ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.
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    • , title= 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.}}
  • 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
    • When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled .
  • To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
    • The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • The desert smiled , / And paradise was opened in the wild.
  • To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.
    • The gods smiled on his labours.

    Derived terms

    * smiler

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    smiling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That which smiles or has a smile.
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  • *:Serene, smiling , enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

    • Antonyms

    * unsmiling

    Noun

  • The action of the verb to smile .
    • Smiling takes fewer muscles than frowning.
  • * 1837 , Harriet Catharine Grew, Memorials of a Young Christian
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    Verb

    (head)
    • They were smiling at the children.

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