Word Finder - smoothed

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To make smooth or even.

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To make straightforward or easy.

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To calm or palliate.

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to smooth a person's temper

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(image processing, digital audio) To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.

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To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.

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Can I smooth your cat?

Gabriel smoothed her cheeks.

He smoothed her hair from her face and rested his hand against the soft skin of her exposed thigh, admiring her body.

Dusty relaxed and smoothed her hair back like he might a child's.

Climatic agencies have smoothed and modified everything rugged or abrupt, until an impression of gentle undulation rather than of grandeur is suggested.

A handful or two of the soil is then put in, and on this the plant with its roots spread out is to be set, a trifle higher than the plant should stand in the pot when finished off; more soil is to be added, and the whole pressed firmly with the fingers, the base of the stem being just below the pot-rim, and the surface being smoothed off so as to slope a little outwards.

He smoothed her bouncy curls, wanting to let his hands continue down her body.

The sphere is then coated with plaster or whiting, and when it has been smoothed on a lathe and dried, the lines representing meridians and parallels are drawn upon it.

Unconsciously she sat up, smoothed her hair, got up, and went to the window, involuntarily inhaling the freshness of the clear but windy evening.

When uniformly damped, the leaves are separately opened out and smoothed, the midrib, if not already removed, is torn out, except when " bird'seye " cut is to be made, in which mixture the midrib gives the peculiar " bird's-eye " appearance.

For polished stonework the material was pecked by blows, ground with other stones, and smoothed with fine material.

When cutting a passage in the rock a rough driftway was first made, the roof was smoothed, a red axis line was drawn along it, and then the sides were cut parallel to the axis.

After the area is smoothed, the wax is ripped away in one motion against the direction of hair growth.

Obviously, this is a serious area of disparity, but not one that can’t be smoothed over.

In the first two periods the construction is rough, while in the third the blocks are very well and finely jointed, and the faces smoothed; they are mostly polygonal in form and are much larger (the maximum about io by 6 ft.) than those of the city wall.

A pattern was incised with a graver in iron or steel, and then gold wire was beaten into the sunk lines, the whole surface being then smoothed and polished.

This difference was finally smoothed over, and it was probably through his influence that Bacon received the much-desired permission to come within the verge of the court.

The external walls, which have a circuit of about 2 m., are constructed of polygonal masonry; the blocks are carefully jointed, and the faces smoothed.

The integrated emission of energy is given by the area of the outer smoothed curve (4), and the conclusion from this one holograph is that the " solar constant " is 2.54 calories.

Boulder-clays and sands, and gravels rearranged by water, occur throughout the lowlands; while the eskers or " green hills," characteristic grasscovered ridges of gravel, rise from the great plain, or run athwart valleys and over hill-sides, marking the courses of sub-glacial streams. When the superficial deposits are removed, the underlying rocks are found to be scored and smoothed by ice-action, and whole mountain-sides in the south and west have been similarly moulded during the Glacial epoch.

First of all the image is smoothed by Gaussian convolution.

I smoothed down the sharp edges of the twist, cutting through the bark to emphasize the twisty shapes.

There were minor glitches on Sunday which I'm sure were smoothed over by Monday.

As you can see from the excerpt below, the values affected are those relating to values extracted from the smoothed histogram.

Thus, every 3D histogram can be turned into a smoothed surface.

Toward the middle of the basin a limestone outcrop has been smoothed by passing ice, forming pavement.

Which promise made the young man more cheerful and smoothed out the worried pucker between channel 5 news Sacharissa's straight brows.

Still longer needs the cubic spline, yet, for a really smoothed out shape, this is the only way to go.

We investigate the stability of self-gravitating accretion disks using three-dimensional, global, smoothed particle hydrodynamic (SPH) simulations.

The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly ascended the carpeted stairs.

Ferapontov came out after her, but on seeing Alpatych adjusted his waistcoat, smoothed his hair, yawned, and followed Alpatych into the opposite room.

Smoothed edges around the holes indicate that the wounds healed in time.

The program uses a fast 2D cubic spline method to create data to give the appearance of a smoothed set of results.

The global wavelet spectrum, which is similar to a smoothed FFT, is given by using the full time range.

Contemporary advertising favors smoothed, youthful surfaces, and it employs its own techniques, including image manipulation, to ensure that bodily ideals do not "disturb" us with signs of imperfection.

Instead of only your bust being supported, your torso is smoothed and slimmed.

Your bust will be enhanced, while your body will be smoothed.

This cut can be styled in a messy manner or smoothed out.

One day, the layers may be smoothed down into a sleek style, while the next day hair gel could be used to create heavy texture or spikes.

A tapered bob is generally longer in the front with a graduated back that either stacks in a full weight line or that slightly bevels, creating a soft level of height that easily compresses when smoothed out with a straightening iron.

Some of the most popular flat ironed looks are coifed on a modern shag haircut, but because of the straight edges and smoothed surface, the popular shag silhouette goes unnoticed.

All of these styles can be smoothed with a straightening iron to create a shiny and sleek style.

Wear a corset when you layer a tank top underneath a cardigan, so bumps and lumps can be smoothed out if you want to wear your cardi unbuttoned.

When it is fully dry, it will need to be shaped and smoothed.

Once dry, the silk wrap is smoothed out with a buffer.

They are shaped to size, coated with a sealant and smoothed with a buffer for a flawless, smooth and natural-looking finish.

When the tool is smoothed over the acne scar, it is supposed to smooth it and make it more uniform.

He gathered her warm body in his arms and smoothed away the curls that clung to his face, breathing her deep scent before he dropped into the first peaceful slumber in ages.

He smoothed her hair from her face with a gloved hand.

He smoothed out her hair and finally rested a feathery hand on her eyes, easing her into a restless sleep that didn't last long enough.

He smoothed her hair and rested his chin on her head.