Smile vs. Smiley

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Smilenoun

A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety.

Smileverb

(ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.

Smileverb

(transitive) To express by smiling.

Smileverb

(intransitive) To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.

Smileverb

(intransitive) To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.

Smileverb

(intransitive) To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.

Smileverb

To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently.

Smileverb

To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer.

Smileverb

To look gay and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy; as, smiling spring; smiling plenty.

Smileverb

To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; - often with on; as, to smile on one's labors.

Smileverb

To express by a smile; as, to smile consent; to smile a welcome to visitors.

Smileverb

To affect in a certain way with a smile.

Smilenoun

The act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; - opposed to frown.

Smilenoun

A somewhat similar expression of countenance, indicative of satisfaction combined with malevolent feelings, as contempt, scorn, etc; as, a scornful smile.

Smilenoun

Favor; countenance; propitiousness; as, the smiles of Providence.

Smilenoun

Gay or joyous appearance; as, the smiles of spring.

Smilenoun

a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement

Smileverb

change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure

Smileverb

express with a smile;

Smile

A smile is formed primarily by flexing the muscles at the sides of the mouth. Some smiles include a contraction of the muscles at the corner of the eyes, an action known as a Duchenne smile.

Smileyadjective

Cheerful and happy; smiling.

Smileyadjective

(slang) Having one's throat slit from side to side.

Smileynoun

A simplified representation of a smiling face.

Smileynoun

(Internet) A sequence of keyboard characters used to represent a happy mood, especially :) or :-) or other depiction of smiling.

Smileynoun

(rare) An improvised street weapon consisting of a length of chain with padlocks and other heavy objects affixed to one end.

Smileynoun

(South Africa) A roasted sheep's head.

Smileynoun

The type of piercing of the upper frenulum (upper lip) [https://books.google.com/books?id=83sjmTPnz48C&pg=PA118&dq=scrumper+lip&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAWoVChMI9eC8jqfQxwIVlyWICh0mzw1H#v=onepage&q=scrumper%20lip&f=false]

Smileynoun

an emoticon of a smiling face

Smileyadjective

smiling; cheerful

Smileynoun

a symbol representing a smiling face that is used in written communication to indicate that the writer is pleased or joking.

Smiley

A smiley, sometimes referred to as a smiley face, is a basic ideogram that represents a smiling face. Since the 1950s it has become part of popular culture worldwide, used either as a standalone ideogram, or as a form of communication, such as emoticons.

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