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English Dictionary: smart	by the DICT Development Group
8 results for smart
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
smart adj showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness Antonym(s): stupid elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut" Synonym(s): chic, smart, voguish characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average" Synonym(s): bright, smart improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!" Synonym(s): fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy, wise painfully severe; "he gave the dog a smart blow" quick and brisk; "I gave him a smart salute"; "we walked at a smart pace" capable of independent and apparently intelligent action; "smart weapons" n a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore Synonym(s): smart, smarting, smartness v be the source of pain Synonym(s): ache, smart, hurt
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Smart \Smart\, a. [Compar. {Smarter}; superl. {Smartest}.] [OE. smerte. See {Smart}, v. i.] 1. Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste. How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience. --Shak. 2. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain. 3. Vigorous; sharp; severe. [bd]Smart skirmishes, in which many fell.[b8] --Clarendon. 4. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever. [Colloq.] 5. Efficient; vigorous; brilliant. [bd]The stars shine smarter.[b8] --Dryden. 6. Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying. Who, for the poor renown of being smart Would leave a sting within a brother's heart? --Young. A sentence or two, . . . which I thought very smart. --Addison. 7. Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Smart \Smart\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Smarted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smarting}.] [OE. smarten, AS. smeortan; akin to D. smarten, smerten, G. schmerzen, OHG. smerzan, Dan. smerte, SW. sm[84]rta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, Ohg. smerzo, and probably to L. mordere to bite; cf. Gr. [?][?][?][?], [?][?][?][?][?], terrible, fearful, Skr. m[?]d to rub, crush. Cf. {Morsel}.] 1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart. --Chaucer. --Shak. 2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil. No creature smarts so little as a fool. --Pope. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. --Prov. xi. 15.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Smart \Smart\, v. t. To cause a smart in. [bd]A goad that . . . smarts the flesh.[b8] --T. Adams.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Smart \Smart\, n. [OE. smerte. See {Smart}, v. i.] 1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles. [bd]In pain's smart.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction. To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart. --Milton. Counsel mitigates the greatest smart. --Spenser. 3. A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy. [Slang] --Fielding. 4. Smart money (see below). [Canf]
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
smart adj. Said of a program that does the {Right Thing} in a wide variety of complicated circumstances. There is a difference between calling a program smart and calling it intelligent; in particular, there do not exist any intelligent programs (yet -- see {AI-complete}). Compare {robust} (smart programs can be {brittle}).
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
SMART For {MS-DOS}? [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
smart 1. Said of a program that does the {Right Thing} in a wide variety of complicated circumstances. There is a difference between calling a program smart and calling it intelligent; in particular, there do not exist any intelligent programs (yet - see {AI-complete}). Compare {robust} (smart programs can be {brittle}). 2. Incorporating some kind of digital electronics. (1995-03-28)