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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
smoothly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
go well/smoothly/fine etc
▪ The party went well.
▪ Everything’s going fine at the moment.
running smoothly (=happening in the way they should)
▪ Andy kept things running smoothly while I was away.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
continue
▪ This elicited squeals, laughter and elaborate pay-back schemes, all tolerated only as long as the work continued smoothly.
flow
▪ The toastmaster opens the proceedings and keeps them flowing smoothly.
▪ He waltzed her around the room a little as the soft music started to flow smoothly over them.
▪ If you succeed in this, your cuts will be effectively invisible, and the images will flow smoothly.
▪ This allows traffic to flow smoothly between networks. 2.
▪ But as experience is gained through constant repetition, each movement of the form begins to flow smoothly into the next.
▪ Bonnie invited her input, and gave her the assignment to get things flowing smoothly.
▪ Above all, the notes need to be spot on while allowing the overall rhythm to flow smoothly.
▪ This keeps the solution flowing smoothly and, together with keeping the solution at 2°C, stops convection currents building up.
go
▪ Thus everything went smoothly when the peace conference reconvened at Michaelmas at Montlouis, between Tours and Amboise.
▪ Everyone involved has incentive for the transition to go smoothly.
▪ That was to say, up to a point everything went smoothly.
▪ And while her comeback has had its moments, not everything has gone smoothly.
▪ There were only three days now before the show and things were not going smoothly.
▪ While most of the day went smoothly, there were moments of tension among some of the officers.
▪ The transition to the new order did not seem to be going smoothly.
▪ Try the demonstration yourself first to be sure it will go smoothly.
move
▪ This minor invention, which enables traffic to move smoothly and with a minimum of accidents, exploited a process need.
▪ Hank was holding Louise in an old fashioned embrace, as if for waltzing, but they moved smoothly to the song.
▪ It moves smoothly and pleasantly through the course of her dedicated career without any recognition of her gender constituting a difficulty.
▪ Once you have one ball moving smoothly, you can try two.
▪ The goal looked like the signal for Bucks to move smoothly towards their first championship since 1982.
▪ Publishers such as Ackermann had to employ a considerable body of engravers and watercolourists to keep the work moving smoothly.
▪ He moved smoothly, almost imperceptibly.
▪ Yet Mr Andreotti moved smoothly into the premiership.
proceed
▪ Throughout, there are no awkward melodic leaps; everything proceeds smoothly, by arpeggio or by step.
▪ For the first weeks, all proceeded smoothly.
▪ The need for a certain amount of scrapping if accumulation is to proceed smoothly determines a necessary rise in product wages.
run
▪ Once the engine is running smoothly, a backfire can be dramatic.
▪ Tiny, energetic, imaginative, she drove advertising sales to ever-new heights and kept the business departments running smoothly.
▪ But it's just to keep things running smoothly.
▪ Microsoft executives emphasized that Explorer, when integrated with other company software, can smoothly run large company intranets.
▪ Together they pulled back the high door, which despite its rustic appearance, ran smoothly on well-greased and balanced rollers.
▪ I am here to see that this runs smoothly for New York and New York delegation.
▪ Yes, things were running smoothly once more.
▪ Though they seemed to have refined the outward form of marriage, I suspected that underneath not everything ran smoothly.
slide
▪ Mattie pressed the automatic device on her dashboard and the garage door eased upwards for the Lincoln to slide smoothly in.
▪ The cruel blade slid smoothly from its sheath into his right hand.
▪ The exoskeleton slid smoothly open and a little tune - Climb Every Mountain - issued tonelessly from a small loudspeaker somewhere.
▪ This city could reconfigure parts of itself, great vitrodur panels sliding smoothly, tilting, canting.
▪ A small panel on the hull slid smoothly back.
work
▪ In general, this works smoothly for their customers.
▪ Under circumstances such as these, it became very difficult to work smoothly together.
▪ Generally it is recommended that there is more fibre in the diet to keep the gut working smoothly and efficiently.
▪ Fifty years now; fifty years to establish themselves and set up Encyclopedia Foundation Number One into a smoothly working unit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Practice the scales until you can play them smoothly.
▪ With one-way streets, cars will move more smoothly and rapidly through the neighborhood.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A pianist neither acquires nor executes the behavior of playing a scale smoothly because of a prior intention of doing so.
▪ So faster wage rises were needed if the system was to function smoothly.
▪ The train ran on smoothly towards Chancery Lane.
▪ This elicited squeals, laughter and elaborate pay-back schemes, all tolerated only as long as the work continued smoothly.
▪ Though the court view is rendered well and rotates smoothly, there is one minor flaw.
▪ While most of the day went smoothly, there were moments of tension among some of the officers.
▪ While past cease-fires and attempts at disarmament have failed, the current peace process has gone relatively smoothly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smoothly

Smoothly \Smooth"ly\, adv. In a smooth manner.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
smoothly

1520s, "in a smooth manner, blandly," from smooth (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "without impediment or complications" is from 1660s.

Wiktionary
smoothly

adv. in a smooth manner

WordNet
smoothly

  1. adv. with no problems or difficulties; "put the plans into effect quickly and smoothly"

  2. with great ease and success; "in spite of some mishaps, everything went swimmingly" [syn: swimmingly]

  3. in a smooth and diplomatic manner; "`And now,' he said smoothly, `we will continue the conversation'"

Usage examples of "smoothly".

The door hinged smoothly shut behind me, muffling the music, and a body thudded against the frosted glass ahead with an abruptness that made me twitch.

An appendage abutting upon a loop at right angles between the shoulders is considered to spoil the loop, while an appendage which flows off smoothly is considered to leave the recurve intact.

She was trapped without a ship or a radio aboard an asteroid that was accelerating smoothly to absurdly high velocities by means she could not understand.

Back in Town again, his first forays into Society had gone smoothly, though there had been a dangerous few minutes the first time he had been formally introduced to Acer Loring.

She had even tried to lure him into a kiss, but he had smoothly dodged her enticements, repeatedly foisting her off on Acer Loring.

The man was too awkward aiming, but he went instantly graceful when Rambo shot him, smoothly clutching his right shoulder, spinning easily, toppling perfectly over the bicycle next to the tool shed, and then he was awkward again as the bicycle gave way under him and the two jumbled to the ground in a tinny jangle of chain and spokes.

Our third division, advanced paleoliths and neoliths, refers to anomalously old stone tools that resemble the very finely chipped or smoothly polished stone industries of the standard Late Paleolithic and Neolithic periods.

The lifeboat was riding like an aquaplane, and not smoothly either, but the smoke was worse.

CHAPTER II THRUSTS FROM THE DARK OUTSIDE the Argyle Museum, the armored vans had slithered smoothly to a stop in front of the great stone gates.

After five minutes of aggravation they were able to array it smoothly if somewhat askew upon the wall.

Once feeding is going smoothly, many mothers feel in tune with their babies, anticipating their hunger needs instinctively.

The job went smoothly, though Ralph Bales had been irritated by arrogant Stevie.

Below us, a cluster of old men played bocce on the smoothly raked gravel between the set of tracks.

Such were his thoughts as he went through the duties of the toilet, while Zoe sat at the window of her boudoir gazing out over the smoothly shaven lawn with its stately trees, lovely in their fresh spring attire, to the green fields and woods beyond, yet scarcely taking in the beauty of the landscape, so full of tears were her eyes, so full her heart of anger, grief, and pain.

Because we want our children to be consumers, and because we want our food shopping to go smoothly, we tend to indulge children in supermarkets, buying some of their favorite products or rewarding them for good behavior with a purchase or two.