smile 
smile (smīl)
intransitive verb smiled, smil′·ing
- to have or take on a facial expression showing usually pleasure, amusement, affection, friendliness, etc., or, sometimes, irony, derision, etc. and characterized by an upward curving of the corners of the mouth and a sparkling of the eyes
- to look (at, on, or upon someone) with a pleasant expression of this kind
- to regard with favor or approval: with on or upon
- to have a favorable, pleasing, or agreeable appearance
Etymology: ME smilen, akin to Norw smile, Swed smila, prob. via MLowG *smilen < IE base *(s)mei-, to smile, be astonished > L mirus, wonderful, OE smearcian, to smile
transitive verb
- to express with a smile
- to change or affect by smiling
noun
- the act of smiling
- the facial expression made in smiling
- a favorable, pleasing, or agreeable appearance
smile away
to drive away or get rid of by a smile or smiling
smile
n.
smile
v.
Object
- face: Then, sat the vase beside the portrait of his smiling face.
Converse of object
- wipe: Duncan Fletcher just can't wipe the smile off his face, and who can blame him?
- bring: To bring a smile, to banish a tear.
- put: Well let Happy Rides put a smile back on your face.
- raise: Whilst they may raise a smile, they do of course mask a very real problem.
- crack: Instead, he cracked a smile, insulted my college ( " Pembroke?
- mock: He stopped and looked at her, thrusting his hand in his pockets and making a mocking smile curl his lips.
Preposition: at
- stranger: So I left the gig in a great mood, skipping on the tube and smiling at strangers.
Adjective modifier
- wry: With a wry smile, she said, " Perhaps I feel that I have to prove myself in order to justify my presence.
- beaming: The fault was finally traced to slipped timing and a beaming smile once again shone from beneath Douglas ' wrinkled brow.
- cheeky: He's this kind of roguish bad boy with a cheeky smile who you don't want to mess with.
- cheery: I'll miss your cheery smile and quiet wit.
- smug: Maybe the thought of such lame activity brings a smug smile to your face.
- faint: A faint smile played about the corners of his mouth... .
Modifies a noun
- makeovers: Based in Essex, Jagmail has a special interest in cosmetic dentistry, non surgical face rejuvenation and smile makeovers.
Modifying Another Word
- sweetly: Ah, smile away sweetly now, Come on now, ooh, sweetly smile away, Yes, sir!
Noun used with modifier
- volatility: Constructing the volatility smile is vital to backoffice revaluation.
Used with why or when
- whenever: Her teeth now look years younger and she smiles widely whenever she can to show off her new look.
- when: He growled and swore at Miss Osborne as usual, and would smile when George came down late for breakfast.
Preposition: from
- ear: After the game when he came in the house he was smiling from ear to ear.
And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.
I had learned that if one cannot call a country to heel like a dog, neither can one dismiss the past with a smile in an easygushof feeling, saying: Icould not help it,Iamalsoa victim.
Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
Then, with that faint fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful,Walter Mitty, the undefeated, inscrutable to the last.
This man,Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.
Even so for me a vision sanctified The sway of death; long ere my eyes had seen Thy countenanceöthe still rapture of thy mienö When thou, dear Sister! wert become death's bride: No trace of pain or languor could abide That changeöage on thy brow was smoothedöthy cold Wan cheek at once was privileged to unfold A loveliness to living youth denied. Oh! if within me hope should e'er decline, The lamp of faith, lost Friend! too faintly burn; The may that heaven-revealing smile of thine, The bright assurance, visibly return: And let my spirit in that power divine Rejoice, as, through that power, it ceased to mourn.
If I laugh on that particular day I become so filled with Laughing Gas that I simply can't keep on the ground. Even if I smile it happens.The first funny thought, and I'm up like a balloon. And until I can thinkof something serious I can't get down again.
Operationally,God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.
Je¤ sus a pleure¤ , Voltaire a souri; c'est de cette larme divine et de ce sourire humain qu'est faite la douceur de la civilisation actuelle. Jesus wept;Voltairesmiled.Of that divinetearand of that human smile the sweetness of present civilization is composed.
Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling backöthat's an earthquake.
Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
Quand une femme me para|"t belle, je n'ai rien a' en dire. Je la vois sourire, tout simplement. Les intellectuels de¤ montent le visage, pour l'expliquer par les morceaux, mais ils ne voient plus le sourire. When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
Look back, and smile at perils past!
From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
Un sourire est souvent l'essentiel. On est paye¤ par un sourire. On est re¤ compense¤ par un sourire.On est anime¤ par un sourire. Et la qualite¤ d'un sourire peut faire que l'on meure. A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile.One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.
When the guns begin to rattle And the men to die Does the Goddess of the Battle Smile or sigh?
'My father is deceased.Come,Gaveston, And share the kingdom with thy dearest friend.' Ah, words that make me surfeit with delight! What greater bliss can hap to Gaveston Than live and be the favourite of a king? Sweet prince, I come; these, these thyamorous lines Might have enforced me to have swum from France, And, like Leander, gasped upon the sand, So thou would'st smile, and take me in thy arms.
The Harper smiled, well pleased; for ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear: A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile.
The way your smile just beams The way you sing off key The way you haunt my dreams No, no! They can't take that away from me!
Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.
Father in Heaven, whenthethoughtof Thee wakesinour hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
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