Sweet vs Smooth - What's the difference?
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Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
Having a taste of sugar.
Containing a sweetening ingredient.
(wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.
Not having a salty taste.
* 1821 , Robert Thomas, The modern practice of physic
Having a pleasant smell.
* Longfellow
Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
Having a pleasant sound.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
Having a pleasing disposition.
Having a helpful disposition.
(mineralogy) Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
(informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.
* {{quote-news, year=2014
, date=November 14
, author=Stephen Halliday
, title=Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero
, work=The Scotsman
(informal, followed by on) Romantically fixated, enamored (followed by with), fond (followed by of).
(obsolete) Fresh; not salt or brackish.
Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
* Milton
(uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
(countable, British) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
(countable, British) A food eaten for dessert.
sweetheart; darling
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.
* Milton
(obsolete) That which is pleasing or welcome to the mind.
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.
*{{quote-book, year=1912, author=(Gustavus Myers), title=
, 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
, passage=
As adjectives the difference between sweet and smooth
is that sweet is having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar while smooth is having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.As adverbs the difference between sweet and smooth
is that sweet is in a sweet manner while smooth is smoothly.As nouns the difference between sweet and smooth
is that sweet is the basic taste sensation induced by sugar while smooth is something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.As a proper noun Sweet
is {{surname|lang=en}.As a verb smooth is
to make smooth or even.sweet
English
(wikipedia sweet)Adjective
(er)- a sweet apple
- Sweet wines are better dessert wines.
- sweet butter
- Nothing has been found so effectual for preserving water sweet at sea, during long voyages, as charring the insides of the casks well before they are filled.
- a sweet scent
- The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
- sweet milk
- a sweet tune
- a voice sweet , tremulous, but powerful
- a sweet child
- It was sweet of him to help out.
- sweet soil
- sweet crude oil
- The new Lexus was a sweet birthday gift.
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- The attraction was mutual and instant; they were sweet on one another from first sight.
- sweet water
- (Francis Bacon)
- a sweet''' face; a '''sweet colour or complexion
- Sweet interchange / Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
Synonyms
* (having a taste of sugar) saccharine, sugary * (containing a sweetening ingredient) sugared, sweetened * (not having a salty taste) fresh, unsalty * (having a pleasant smell) fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling * fresh, unfermented, wholesome * (having a pleasant sound) dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant * (having a pleasing disposition) cute, lovable, pleasant * (having a helpful disposition) kind, gracious, helpful, sensitive, thoughtful * rad, awesome, wickedAntonyms
* (having a pleasant taste) bitter, sour, salty * (containing a sweetening ingredient) nonsweet, sugarless, unsugared, unsweetened, unsweet * dry * decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, stale * (not having a salty taste) salty, savoury * (free from excessive unwanted substances) sour * lame, uncoolDerived terms
* bittersweet * boiled sweet * flower-sweet * honey-sweet * meadowsweet * semisweet * short and sweet * sickeningly sweet * sickly sweet/sickly-sweet * sugar-sweet * sweet action * (sweet alison) * (sweet almond) * (sweet alyssum) * sweet and sour * sweet as * sweet as a nut * sweet as pie * sweet ball * (sweet balm) * sweet basil * sweet bay * (sweet bells) * sweet birch * sweet bread * sweetbread * sweet-breasted * (sweetbriar) * (sweet calabash) * (sweet cassava) * sweet cheeks * sweet cherry * sweet chocolate * (sweet cicely) * sweet cider * (sweet clover) * (sweet coltsfoot) * sweet corn/sweet-corn/sweetcorn * sweet cream * sweet cup * sweet dreams * (sweet elder) * sweeten * sweetener * sweet FA * (sweet fern) * sweet flag * (vern, sweet four o'clock) * sweet gale * (sweet goldenrod) * sweet grass * sweet gum tree * sweet hereafter * sweet iron * sweetish * sweetkin * sweet leaf * sweet lemon * (sweet lime) * sweetly * (sweet marjoram) * sweet Mary * sweetmeat * (sweet melon) * sweetness * sweet nothings * sweet oil * sweet on * sweet orange * sweet pea * sweet pepper * sweet pickle * sweet potato * (sweet rocket) * sweet roll * sweetroot * sweets * sweet scabious * sweet science * (sweet shrub) * sweet sixteen * Sweet Sixteen * sweet-smelling * sweet-sop * (sweet sorghum) * sweet spot * (sweet sultan) * sweet-talk * sweet talker * sweet tooth * (sweet unicorn plant) * sweet vermouth * (sweet vetch) * (sweet violet) * sweet water * (sweet wattle) * sweet william/Sweet William * sweet woodruff * sweety * sweet young thing * unsweet * (winter sweet)Usage notes
* Also used as a positive response to good news or information: They're making a sequel? Ah, sweet !Synonyms
* (in a sweet manner) sweetlyNoun
- Can we see the sweet menu, please?
- Wherefore frowns my sweet ?
- a wilderness of sweets
- the sweets of domestic life
Synonyms
* (sweet taste sensation) See sweetness * (food that is high in sugar content) bonbon, candy (US), confection, confectionery, lolly (Australia) * (food eaten for dessert) See dessertDerived terms
* sweet shop * sweetshopStatistics
*Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic wordssmooth
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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Verb
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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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