transcription, транскрипция: [ smɑ:(r)t ]
( smarter, smartest, smarts, smarting, smarted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Smart people and things are pleasantly neat and clean in appearance. ( mainly BRIT )
He was smart and well groomed but not good looking...
I was dressed in a smart navy blue suit.
...smart new offices.
ADJ
• smart‧ly
He dressed very smartly which was important in those days.
...a smartly-painted door.
ADV : ADV with v
• smart‧ness
The jumper strikes the perfect balance between comfort and smartness.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
You can describe someone who is clever as smart .
He thinks he’s smarter than Sarah is...
Buying expensive furniture is not necessarily the smartest move to make.
ADJ
see also smartly , street smart
3.
A smart place or event is connected with wealthy and fashionable people.
...smart London dinner parties.
...a smart residential district.
ADJ : usu ADJ n
4.
Smart bombs and weapons are guided by computers and lasers so that they hit their targets accurately.
ADJ : ADJ n
5.
If a part of your body or a wound smarts , you feel a sharp stinging pain in it.
My eyes smarted from the smoke.
= sting
VERB : V
6.
If you are smarting from something such as criticism or failure, you feel upset about it. ( JOURNALISM )
The Americans were still smarting from their defeat in the Vietnam War...
VERB : usu cont , V from n
7.
the smart money: see money