smile

Definition of smile in English English dictionary: To make a small happy face expression using mouth, (without sound.)
She smiles a beautiful smile.; A happy, facial expression, primarily involving the mouth, but without vocalisation
He always puts a smile on my face.; {v} to look gay or joyous, smirk, sneer; {n} a look of pleasure or kindness; A curve that can set a lot of things straight; Favor; countenance; propitiousness; as, the smiles of Providence; To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer; To look gay and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy; as, smiling spring; smiling plenty; A smile is the facial expression a dancer wears when showing delight and enjoyment during his/her performance A dancer's smile must attract pleasantly, not detract or distract If a smile is plastered on, giving a canned impression, it will certainly have the reverse effect The idea is to vary the facial expression to match the flow of the dance, the music and the mood of the atmosphere Most beginners pout, leer and growl in a stern, studied way, which serves only to frighten the crows away A smile must express the happy, natural feeling within the dancer for the dance, the music and his/her partner It would, however, be out of character to smile during dramatic, poignant music - a dancer's expressions should suit the dance and occasion, i e Tango is dramatic, Bolero sensual, Waltz romantic, etc; A somewhat similar expression of countenance, indicative of satisfaction combined with malevolent feelings, as contempt, scorn, etc; as, a scornful smile; A happy face expression using mouth, but without producing voice; noun A pleasant or favorable disposition or aspect; If you say that something such as fortune smiles on someone, you mean that they are lucky or successful. When fortune smiled on him, he made the most of it; Gay or joyous appearance; as, the smiles of spring; change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure; express with a smile; "She smiled her thanks"; To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; often with on; as, to smile on one's labors; a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure express with a smile; "She smiled her thanks; A smile is the expression that you have on your face when you smile. She gave a wry smile `There are some sandwiches if you're hungry,' she said with a smile; The act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; opposed to frown; {f} grin; treat kindly or favorably; cheerfully accept; To affect in a certain way with a smile; To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently; {i} facial expression in which the corners of the mouth turn up, grin (generally expressing pleasure or amusement); act of smiling; pleasant appearance; a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement; When you smile, the corners of your mouth curve up and you sometimes show your teeth. People smile when they are pleased or amused, or when they are being friendly. When he saw me, he smiled and waved He rubbed the back of his neck and smiled ruefully at me His smiling face appears on T-shirts, billboards, and posters; If you say that someone is all smiles, you mean that they look very happy, often when they have previously been worried or upset about something. W2S2 an expression in which your mouth curves upwards, when you are being friendly or are happy or amused with a smile; Colloquialism for a lacerated golf ball; a cut in the ball is normally caused by a thinned shot; To express by a smile; as, to smile consent; to smile a welcome to visitors
smile away: free oneself from sadness and smile
smile on: extend a warm welcome to -
Duchenne smile: A smile involving contraction of both the zygomatic major muscle (which raises the corners of the mouth) and the orbicularis oculi (which raises the cheeks and forms crow's feet around the eyes)
Glasgow smile: A facial scar received from being cut on the edge of the mouth, resembling an extended smile
Here they will become acquainted with the city’s endemic crime, random violence and such terms as “a Glasgow kiss” (a head butt) and “a Glasgow smile” (a mouth extended with a cut).
crack a smile: To smile, especially while attempting not to
crack a smile: To begin to smile
smiler: The mouth
smiler: Someone who smiles
smiley: A simplified representation of a smiling face
smiley: An improvised street weapon consisting of a length of chain with padlocks and other heavy objects affixed to one end
smiley: Having one's throat slit from side to side
smiley: A sequence of keyboard characters used to represent a person's mood or emotion, especially : ) or : -) or other smiling depiction
smiling: That which smiles or has a smile
smiling children.
smiling: Present participle of smile
They were smiling at the children.
vertical smile: A vagina
she lowered her hands between her knees her thighs and joined thumb to thumb and index to index forming a diamond windowframe about her smiling not-mouth her notclosed lips her ragged gaping vertical smile.
smilingly: {a} with a look of pleasure, pleasingly
angelic smile: saintly smile, smile of an angel, innocent smile
archaic smile: A representation of the human mouth with slightly upturned corners, characteristic of early Greek sculpture produced before the fifth century
broad smile: big smile, wide grin
frosty smile: unfriendly smile
frozen smile: cold smile, unfriendly smile
give us a smile: smile for us, let's see you smile
phoney smile: fake smile, false smile, disingenuous smile
phony smile: false smile, fake smile, disingenuous smile
put a smile on his face: made him smile, made him happy, made him laugh, caused him to feel good
radiant smile: smile that expresses great joy or happiness
raise a smile on his face: make him smile, make him grin, cause him to have a happy facial expression
sardonic smile: shrewd smile, sly smile, cunning grin
silly smile: smile with a stupid expression
smiled: Past tense of to smile
smiler: the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
smiler: {i} one who smiles
smiler: a person who smiles
smiles: stands for Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System
smiles: "Computer speak" for describing tone, body language or feelings i e : -) or ;-) or : -(
smiles: SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) is a string notation used to describe the nature and topology of molecular structures
smiles: third-person singular of smile
smiles: plural of smile
smiley: face formed from keyboard characters, used to indicate emotions in e-mail and netnews The original is: : - signifying humor or happiness
smiley: A combination of symbols designed to indicate the true intent or emotional state of the author The classic smiley is the sideways happy face : - Smileys are fine in moderation, but overusing them not only indicates that your writing isn't as clear as it could be, but it also brands you as a newbie
smiley: Smileys are used to smile in text-only e-mail messages They are usually composed of a semi-colon, a dash, and a right-hand bracket, like this: ;-
smiley: typed symbols of expression, like a smiley face; tilt your head sideways to the left to see it; also called emoticons
smiley: Expressive marks or figures added in text and read sideways ex: : -) or {: -(
smiley: A combination of keyboard characters that portray emotions like : -) for a smile or : -( for a frown Also called an emoticon
smiley: Smiling faces used in mail and news to indicated humor and irony The most common smiley is :
smiley: "Art" form composed of punctuation Sometimes used in E-mail or usenet news postings to reduce ambiguity or to entertain Examples include the plain smiley, ": -)", the winking smiley, ";-)", etc See also Emoticon
smiley: The use punctuation marks to show feelings and emotions For example, a smiley face is : ), and a sad face would be : (
smiley: The use of punctuation marks and other symbols or characters to portray moods when typing, especially in email messages and IRC Here's an example of a simple smiley: : ) If you don't see it, tilt your head to the left and look at it The colon makes the eyes and the parenthesis makes the smiley mouth The smile means happiness (like if someone says something funny) or it often denotes sarcasm Other combinations of characters can express many other emotions You may also hear them referred to as emoticons
smiley: {i} circle containing two dots for eyes and an upturned curve representing a smiling mouth (often appears as a yellow circle); face made of ASCII characters which expresses emotion (Computers)
smiley: Semi-circular black mark appearing on a race car's bodywork after contact with another car's tire, also known as a donut
smiley: Manipulating the limited potential of keyboard characters to show goodwill, irony, or other emotions with a "smiley face " Known as "emoticons," there are a number of these text-based effects used on the Net For example, : -)means smiley and : -( displays anger
smiley: A set of characters that looks like a face if you turn it sideways Used in E-mail messages which only allow text For example Frown : -( Smile : -) Wink ;-)
smiley: The use of punctuation marks and other symbols or characters to portray moods when typing
smiley: A sequence of characters, usually found in an e-mail message, that indicates humorous intent The three-character sequence : - is especially popular because it resembles a smiling face turned sideways
smiley: A name given to a small set of characters that are intended to represent a form of non-verbal communication Thus a happy face is represented as : - [week 2]
smiley: Cheerful and happy; smiling
smiley: an emoticon of a smiling face
smiley: n See emoticon
smiley: Evoking memories of that glory decade of American culture, the 1970s, this text version of a smile or "Happy Face" allows people to express positive emotions in their e-mail or newsgroup postings
smiley: A smiling face charter made by joining ASCII characters together Used to express emotions over the Internet
smiley: A symbol in e-mail and newsgroup messages used to convey emotion, or simply amusement Create smileys by typing various keyboard characters For example, : - means happiness See also, Emoticon
smiley: A sequence of keyboard characters used to represent a persons mood or emotion, especially : ) or : -) or other smiling depiction
smiley: Since you can't use voice inflection when you communicate with people online, people use smileys as a way to add emotion to their words : - If you look at it sideways you can see the smile Also called emoticons
smiley: Character combinations such as : -) to denote whether a message is being made in jest with various modifications thereof ;-) to wink, etc Also called emoticons, since not all are smiling %-(
smiley: A face on it's side, smiling It lets the reader know that you mean your comments to be humorous Remind people that you are being funny--they may take your words seriously if you don't
smiley: The use of punctuation marks and other symbols or characters to protray moods when typing, especially in email messages and IRC Here's an example of a simple smiley : ) If you don't see it, tilt your head to the left and look at it Teh colon makes the eyes and the parenthesis makes the smiley mouth The smiles means happiness (like if someone says something funny) or it often denotes sarcasm Other combinations of characters can express many other emotions you may also hear them referred to as "emoticons "
smiley: Having ones throat slit from side to side
smiley: The use of punctuation marks and other symbols or characters to portray moods when typing, especially in e-mail messages and IRC Here's an example of a simple smiley: :) If you don't see it, tilt your head to the left and look at it The colon makes the eyes and the parenthesis makes the smiley mouth The smile means happiness (like if someone says something funny) or it often denotes sarcasm Other combinations of characters can express many other emotions You may also hear them referred to as emoticons
smiley: 1. A smiley person smiles a lot or is smiling. is a smiley showing happiness. = emoticon. a sign that looks like a face when you look at it sideways, for example : -, used in email messages to show that you are happy or pleased about something
smiling: {s} grinning, wearing a smile; cheerful and bright
smiling: smiling with happiness or optimism; "Come to my arms, my beamish boy!"- Lewis Carroll; "a room of smiling faces"; "a round red twinkly Santa Claus"
smiling: Present participle of to smile
smiling: The action of the verb to smile
smiling: a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
smiling: That smiles or smile
smilingly: In a smiling manner
smilingly: with a smile, with a grin; cheerfully
smilingly: If someone does something smilingly, they smile as they do it. He opened the gate and smilingly welcomed the travellers home. done or said with a smile
smilingly: with smiles; in a smiling manner; "the girl reminded her smilingly of their childhood spent together"
smilingly: with smiles; in a smiling manner; "the girl reminded her smilingly of their childhood spent together
winning smile: heart-moving smile, great smile
with a smile: while smiling, with a happy facial expression
wry smile: bitter expression of the lips

smile

Turkish pronunciation

smayl

Synonyms

beam, be gracious, express friendliness, express tenderness, grin, laugh, look amused, look delighted, look happy, look pleased, simper, smirk

Antonyms

frown, glower

Pronunciation

/ˈsmīl/ /ˈsmaɪl/

Etymology

() From Middle English smilen (“to smile”), of North Germanic origin, from Danish smile (“to smile”), from Old Norse *smīla (“to smile”), from Proto-Germanic *smīlianan, *smirōjanan (“to smile”), from Proto-Indo-European *smeyə- (“to laugh, be glad, wonder”). Cognate with Swedish smila (“to smile”), Middle High German smielen (“to smile”), Old High German smierōn (“to smile”), Old English smerian (“to laugh at”), Old English smercian, smearcian (“to smile”), Latin miror (“to wonder at”). More at smirk.