smooth vs rough
Definitions
adjective
- (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
- (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected
- of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence
verb
- make (a surface) shine
- free from obstructions
- make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing
noun
- the act of smoothing
Examples
Simply smooth a little on your face at night, lie back and say goodbye to dull and lifeless skin.
A vacuum absorbing device absorbs the smooth plane of the extracting device and the socket connector is positioned on the circuit board, thus achieving the goal of automatic assembling.
The play is a little overlong and would benefit from cuts, but each scene is interesting and changes are smoothly executed.
Definitions
adjective
- having or caused by an irregular surface
- unpleasantly stern
- not perfected
- unkind or cruel or uncivil
- ready and able to resort to force or violence
adverb
- with rough motion as over a rough surface
- with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
verb
- prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
noun
- the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
Examples
He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough.
It's not because I'm worried about what they might think, or anything ridiculous like that, it's because in a lot of cases this material was intended for me alone - either through an oral tradition or as a gnostic revelation from the spirits.
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
