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9 definitions found 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. ``Smart skirmishes, in which many fell.'' --Clarendon. 4. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever. [Colloq.] 5. Efficient; vigorous; brilliant. ``The stars shine smarter.'' --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["a]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 ``A goad that . . . smarts the flesh.'' --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. ``In pain's smart.'' --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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: smart adj 1: showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness [ant: {stupid}] 2: elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut" [syn: {chic}, {voguish}] 3: characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average" [syn: {bright}] 4: 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" [syn: {fresh}, {impertinent}, {impudent}, {overbold}, {saucy}] 5: of or associated with people of fashion; "the smart set" 6: marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: {dapper}, {dashing}, {jaunty}, {natty}, {raffish}, {rakish}, {snappy}, {spruce}] n : a stinging pain [syn: {smarting}] v : be the source of pain [syn: {ache}, {hurt}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 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 (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: SMART For {MS-DOS}? [{Jargon File}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [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) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: SMART Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (HDD, IDE, Conner, IBM, Quantum, Seagate, WD), "S.M.A.R.T."
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