Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having been smeared.
- adjective Tending to smear or soil.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to smear or soil; viscous; adhesive.
- Showing smears; smeared: as, a smeary drawing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to smear or soil; adhesive; viscous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
smears - adjective Tending to
smear
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Examples
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My continued doubts about the Nikon 10-24 regard the "smeary" corners at wider focal lengths on most, but not all, images I've seen.
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Place of Origin: Hebei, China (Mainland) copper wire recycling plant: used to extract the wire and make the wires into granula. copper wire recycling plant: specially used to process the automobile electricity route, the communication electric cable line and each kind of smeary mixed material electric cable line.
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Place of Origin: Hebei, China (Mainland) copper wire recycling plant: used to extract the wire and make the wires into granula. copper wire recycling plant: specially used to process the automobile electricity route, the communication electric cable line and each kind of smeary mixed material electric cable line.
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Legs at 0.14 do seem pale and I think the call sounds like a deep nasal laugh : so I'll go for the species named after German zoologist Karl Michahelles.and petemoulton said:One other thing: the red gonydeal spot is kind of smeary, and seems to extend a bit onto the upper mandible.
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Through the smeary glass, Cara could just make out the neat white shutters of her own house across the street.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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Through the smeary glass, Cara could just make out the neat white shutters of her own house across the street.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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The streets were smeary with neon rivulets, and a steam-haze rose from hot pavement.
Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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I mean, sometimes things like electrons are point-sized, and sometimes “smeary”, depending on who is doing the describing.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010
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Through the smeary glass, Cara could just make out the neat white shutters of her own house across the street.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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Legs at 0.14 do seem pale and I think the call sounds like a deep nasal laugh : so I'll go for the species named after German zoologist Karl Michahelles.and petemoulton said:One other thing: the red gonydeal spot is kind of smeary, and seems to extend a bit onto the upper mandible.
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