Silk is soft and smooth.

The stone is perfectly smooth.

The green cube is smooth.

That's a delicate point.

What a subtle hint!

The dog has a keen scent.

This laptop computer is very thin.

Low level radiation is a really subtle issue.

Her exotic perfume has a subtle scent.

The ice is too thin to bear your weight.

The ice is too thin to skate on.

But there was nothing to be done, so she forced herself to read, while her little hand toyed with the smooth paper knife.

The ice is so thin that it won't bear your weight.

This bamboo is too thin to bear much weight.

At the mention of letters the lawyer pressed his lips together and gave vent to a high pitched sound of pity and contempt.

This is why Tudor desperately needs a patina of democratic respectability.

'I will look,' he replied, and glancing at his desk he took up and handed her the thin square envelope of a telegram.

Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

The thin textile lasts for two seasons and is then disposed of as bulk waste.

The thin layer of gases that envelops the Earth is held in place by gravity.

Anything that makes me think. Anything that I don't understand, where I have to make the leap myself, in my own head, is going to stop the flow of the presentation.

The amount of genetic data basically this shows that smooth exponential growth doubled every year, enabling the genome project to be completed.

Much more volatile brown mustard seed, some white wine, a nose hit, much more delicate aromatics. And what do they do?

He who was so wise and astute in official affairs did not realize the insanity of such an attitude toward his wife.

Burden sharing is a sensitive issue, for both NATO and the international community, and passions sometimes run high.

Although this arrangement provides a smoother path to urbanization, it is a transitional, not a permanent one.

But the stakes are especially high in Nigeria, where Yar Adua embodies the country s delicate political balance.

Glass will adsorb water readily, which is why we see a thin film of water on recently washed drinking glasses.

Although this arrangement provides a smoother path to urbanization, it is a transitional, not a permanent one.

Even when taking photographs in a studio where the surface is even, the soles might get damaged not to mention shooting outside.

Anna heard his high measured voice and did not miss a single word. Each word seemed to her false and grated painfully on her ear.

In the morning the bright rising sun quickly melted the thin ice on the water and the warm air all around vibrated with the vapour given off by the awakening earth.

The temperature in Uranus' upper atmosphere is so cold that the methane condenses and forms a thin cloud layer which gives the planet its blue green appearance.

The multipiece body (a thin layer of maple on top of two layers of Honduran mahogany) arrived in 1969.

He stood up, took off his overcoat, and having given himself a start on the rough ice near the shelter, glided down to the smooth surface of the lake, increasing and diminishing his speed and shaping his course as if by volition only.

The subtext to any literate Chinese was clear China may be my ancestral country, but I am a free man, free to choose my home.

And, yeah, the amazing part is that this superconductor that you see here is only half a micron thick. It's extremely thin.

They heard a shrill whistle in the distance, and after the two seconds' interval so familiar to sportsmen, another followed, and then a third, and after the third whistle came a cry.

But, while necessary, this strategy threatens to upset the delicate balance between private and public sector expansion that has underpinned China s expansion so far.

So they built the blade of light, and it's a very thin ribbon of steel, the world's probably the flattest and thinnest suspension bridge there is, with cables that are out on the side.

But Xiaoying Tongxue had a more nuanced view, writing that eating dog meat isn't necessarily wrong, but inhumane slaughter practices are

But in deceiving ourselves into thinking that it is a moral imperative that the state impose order, we are joining the fashionable madmen, which is when the thin whine of hysteria can be heard.

She asks Why wield a sledgehammer when you already have a specific weapon dealing with drunken behavior?

Physical characteristics A standard CD R is a thick disc made of polycarbonate about 120 mm (4.7 in) or 80 mm (3.150 in) diameter.

Definitions 1 international knot 1 nautical mile per hour (exactly), (exactly), (approximately), (approximately), (approximately).