smear

Object

• butter: You can smear peanut butter inside for her to lick out.

Converse of object

• stain: This crude test compared well to analysis of a stained smear of the same blood back in the laboratory.

Adjective modifier

• cervical: Cervical smears should be carried out every three years.
• dyskaryotic: Sample groups Women with a first diagnosis of a midly dyskaryotic smear or two consecutive borderline smears.
• abnormal: However, anyone over 64 who has ever had abnormal smears will be invited for screening in the normal way.
• unscheduled: How can we reduce the frequency of unscheduled smears?
• vaginal: The diagnostic value of vaginal smears in carcinoma of the uterus.
• inadequate: Inadequate smears were those which provided little or no basis for report and so led to a request for a repeat smear.

Modifies a noun

• test: McGovern had a smear test early in 2000 at Kingston hospital.
• tactic: The constant use of this smear tactic by New Labor has now ceased to be effective.
• campaign: Mr Herring later claimed he was the victim of a smear campaign by his own union.
• abnormality: The reason for this is that a lot of minor smear abnormalities go back to normal after several months.
• screening: Cervical smear screening for women should be done every two years or so from the age of first sexual activity onwards.
• testing: Early detection with cervical smear testing can limit the risk of cancer.

Noun used with modifier

• pap: Most women should get a Pap smear once a year.
• sputum: Infection is most commonly acquired by aerosol spread from index cases, who are sputum smear positive.
• repeat: A repeat smear will be needed, usually in six months.
• blood: In the clinic, the animals showing signs of anemia and lethargy have hematology and blood smears done virtually routinely.

Preposition: with

• paste: She fell into the vessel and we were both smeared with the new mud paste.
• blood: This involved the bizarre custom of two young boys - their faces smeared with animal blood - running around whipping anyone they came across!