smirch
Noun
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Noun
smirch
- Dirt, or a stain.
- 1998, Michael Foss, People of the First Crusade, page 6, ISBN 1559704551.
- Too often, in the years between 800 and 1050, the everyday sun declined through the smirch of flame and smoke of a monastery or town robbed and burnt.
- 1998, Michael Foss, People of the First Crusade, page 6, ISBN 1559704551.
- (figurative) A stain on somebody's reputation.
- 2008, W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, page 33, ISBN 1604502061.
- there were some business transactions which savored of dangerous speculation, if not dishonesty; and around it all lay the smirch of the Freedmen's Bank.
- 2008, W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, page 33, ISBN 1604502061.
smirch (smirches, present participle smirching; past and past participle smirched)
- (transitive) To dirty#Verb|dirty; to make dirty#Adjective|dirty.
- Synonyms: besmirch, soil
- 1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I Scene III, lines 101-04
- CELIA. I'll put myself in poor and mean attire,
- And with a kind of umber smirch my face;
- The like do you; so shall we pass along,
- And never stir assailants.
- (transitive, figurative) To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.
- Synonyms: besmirch
- French: salir
- German: beschmutzen, verschmutzen
- Russian: пятна́ть
- Spanish: ensuciar
smirch (plural smirches)
- A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)
- 2003, B. S. Sathyaprakash, BF Schutz, "Templates for stellar mass black holes falling into supermassive black holes" ↗, Classical and Quantum Gravity, volume 20, no. 10
- The strain h(t) produced by a smirch in LISA is given by h(t) = −-A(t)cos[(t) + φ(t)]
- 2005, John M. T. Thompson, Advances in Astronomy: From the Big Bang to the Solar System, page 133, ISBN 1860945775.
- By observing a smirch, LISA offers a unique opportunity to directly map the spacetime geometry around the central object and test whether or not this structure is in accordance with the expectations of general realtivity.
- 2003, B. S. Sathyaprakash, BF Schutz, "Templates for stellar mass black holes falling into supermassive black holes" ↗, Classical and Quantum Gravity, volume 20, no. 10
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