When something does not exhibit wrinkles , has no roughness and/or lacks ornamentation , it is described as smooth . Based on this definition, the concept has several meanings.
For example: “For the party I am going to wear a straight green dress that my husband gave me on my birthday,” “After many years, the actress showed herself again with straight hair,” “You can use a spatula to "makes the cake smooth and improves the appearance of its surface ."
Take the case of clothing . Plain pants are those that have a single color, without drawings, prints, etc. Striped pants, on the other hand, exhibit stripes and are therefore not smooth. The same can be said for t-shirts, shirts, coats, etc.
Regarding hair, the adjective is used with reference to the absence of curls and waves. When someone has straight hair , therefore, they do not have waves in their hair.
Returning to clothing, we can also say that pants, a T-shirt or a shirt, among many other items of clothing, remain smooth once we iron them. This can be done with the household appliance commonly known as an " iron " or also naturally, leaving it well folded under a heavy object for a few hours.
A smooth muscle is made up of smooth muscle fibers. Made up of spindle-like cells , these muscles do not have transverse striations, although they do have some longitudinal ones. The autonomic nervous system is responsible for stimulating the contraction of smooth muscles, which can be divided into unitary smooth muscles and multiunit smooth muscles depending on how they contract.
We can find smooth muscle in various organs of our body, among which are the following: the stomach, esophagus, blood vessels, intestine, urinary bladder and uterus.
A slick tire , on the other hand, does not contain patterns or grooves in the tread . Generally, this type of tire is used on racing cars.
As a noun, smooth is a type of brandy also called hollanda . It is produced through the direct distillation of a wine and has an alcohol content of up to 65º. Continuing in the field of drinks, a glass that has the same width at the bottom and at the mouth is called smooth.
Another case in which this word is used as a noun is in the name of an ancient city in Greece, located on the island of Crete, the largest in the country. It is talked about in the work entitled Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax , published between the end of the 4th century and the beginning of the 3rd century BC. C., where the author mentions the presence of a port in the vicinity of Cape Criu Metopon .
There is evidence of the coins that the inhabitants of Liso minted together with those of Hirtacina , another ancient city of Crete, on whose faces you can see some very characteristic inscriptions. On the other hand, Hierocles, a geographer belonging to the 6th century, included the city of Lysus in his list of twenty-two Cretan cities.
The term "plain" is used very frequently in everyday speech, given the versatility of its meaning and the ease of pronouncing and writing it. The same cannot be said for some of its synonyms, such as " homogeneous " and "polished", for example, which are much less common.
In addition to those set out in the previous paragraph, this adjective has many more synonyms, which we can take advantage of to avoid unnecessary redundancies; Let's look at some of them below: flat, smooth, regular, equal, straight, polished, flat and even. We can also mention some of its antonyms: uneven, rough and wrinkled.