SMOOTHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smoother mean? 

• SMOOTHER (noun)
  The noun SMOOTHER has 1 sense:

1. a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor

  Familiarity information: SMOOTHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMOOTHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

drum sander; electric sander; sander; smoother

Hypernyms ("smoother" is a kind of...):

power tool (a tool driven by a motor)

Meronyms (parts of "smoother"):

electric motor (a motor that converts electricity to mechanical work)

Derivation:

smooth (make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing)

 Context examples 

The brush-coated variety has longer hair and a smoother feel.

(Chinese Shar-Pei, NCI Thesaurus)

The front seat of a car, forward cars of a train, upper deck on a boat or wing seats in a plane may give you a smoother ride.

(Motion Sickness, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Laurie had vanished round the bend, Jo was just at the turn, and Amy, far behind, striking out toward the smoother ice in the middle of the river.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Later in the month, November 22, the Sun will move into Sagittarius, and life will seem smoother and easier to navigate.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He laughed at his bronzed face in the glass at the thought that it was once as white as the underside of his arm; nor did he dream that in the world there were few pale spirits of women who could boast fairer or smoother skins than he—fairer than where he had escaped the ravages of the sun.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The technique used, called sub-sampling by interpolation, only acts to remove the pixelisation and make a smoother image, and it is important to note that the comet's surface features won't be as smooth as the processing implies.

(Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary, NASA)

I remember when I was at Lilliput, the complexion of those diminutive people appeared to me the fairest in the world; and talking upon this subject with a person of learning there, who was an intimate friend of mine, he said that my face appeared much fairer and smoother when he looked on me from the ground, than it did upon a nearer view, when I took him up in my hand, and brought him close, which he confessed was at first a very shocking sight.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It has been two years since you’ve had Mars in your sign, and now that you do, you will find getting approvals and seeing things go your way will be smoother and easier than usual.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)