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