smoothing

Pluralsmoothings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of making a surface flat and even.

   Like rubbing the wrinkles out of a bedsheet until it lies flat.

   The smoothing of the wet plaster took several careful passes.

   A final smoothing gave the wooden table its glossy finish.

   Similarleveling, flattening

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2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of smooth. Use this -ing form for an ongoing action or as a noun.

   She is smoothing the bedsheet with both hands.

   He kept smoothing the wet sand into a flat layer.

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3. 3
   noununcountable

   A way of drawing a simple curve through messy data to show the main trend, not the noise.

   Like tracing a smooth line over a bumpy drawing to show its main shape.

   The smoothing removed the spikes from the temperature chart.

   After some smoothing, the graph showed a clear upward trend.

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4. 4
   noununcountable

   Saying a two-part vowel sound as a single, simpler vowel.

   Like blending two colors into one even shade instead of keeping both.

   In her accent, smoothing turns the vowel in 'hour' into one simple sound.

   Smoothing made 'fire' sound almost like 'far' in his speech.

   Similarmonophthongization

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