What's the difference between pain and smart?

Pain


Definition:

  • (n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
  • (n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
  • (n.) Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
  • (n.) Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
  • (n.) See Pains, labor, effort.
  • (n.) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
  • (n.) To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.
  • (n.) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
  • (2) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
  • (3) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (4) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
  • (5) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
  • (6) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
  • (7) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
  • (8) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
  • (9) During the chronic phase, pain was assessed using visual analogue scales at 8 AM and 4 PM daily.
  • (10) Symptoms, particularly colicky abdominal pain, improved during the period of chelation therapy.
  • (11) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
  • (12) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
  • (13) The study revealed that hypophysectomy and ventricular injection of AVP dose dependently raised pain threshold and these effects were inhibited by naloxone.
  • (14) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
  • (15) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (16) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
  • (17) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
  • (18) Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated previous LBP or back pain in another location of the spine were strongly associated with LBP during the study year.
  • (19) Our previous study demonstrated that acupuncture increased pain threshold of the body, especially in the inflammatory area.
  • (20) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.

Smart


Definition:

  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
  • (v. t.) To cause a smart in.
  • (v. i.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
  • (v. i.) Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
  • (v. i.) A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.
  • (v. i.) Smart money (see below).
  • (v. i.) Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
  • (v. i.) Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
  • (v. i.) Vigorous; sharp; severe.
  • (v. i.) Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.
  • (v. i.) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
  • (v. i.) Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
  • (v. i.) Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
  • (v. i.) Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
  • (2) Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes.
  • (3) "He's defined by being himself, by being smart, by being a good athlete," Goldwater said of Keller.
  • (4) Advancing the health and rights of women is the right – and smart – thing to do for any nation hoping to remain or emerge as a leader on the global stage.
  • (5) By way of encouragement we've got 10 copies of Faber's smart new anniversary edition to give away.
  • (6) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
  • (7) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
  • (8) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
  • (9) I buy ‘smart price’, own-brand cornflakes, rather than Kellogg’s, and I still get to the checkout and think, ‘That’s come to a lot again.’” Are you Daniel Blake?
  • (10) If you're sincere and smart and genuine and lovable that's what's going to come across in your videos and tweets."
  • (11) In a statement, Fisher Price said: “We recently learned of a security vulnerability with our Fisher-Price WiFi-connected Smart Toy Bear.
  • (12) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?
  • (13) Snapchat is also thinking about new devices, launching a Snapchat Micro app for Samsung's Galaxy Gear smart watch in September, capable of shooting pics and videos with the device's camera, then sharing them.
  • (14) There were signs of encouragement early in the second half from Sunderland, and they should have pulled one back only for a terrible call from the assistant referee Eddie Smart.
  • (15) In Drosophila melanogaster new tester strains for the somatic mutation and recombination test (SMART) in the wing were constructed with the aim of increasing the metabolic capacity to activate promutagens.
  • (16) And there are plenty who think that, as our libel laws are cleaned up, smart lawyers are switching horses to privacy.
  • (17) I think the heart of good comedy really lives in truth and reacting to the absurdities, hypocrisies, abuses of power in the world.” Late night television is a no longer a glass of warm milk before bed, it’s a lunch buffet And as TV viewership declines and internet virality becomes as important as real-time eyeballs, cable networks might find that topical comedy is a smart, cost-effective way to grab cross-platform attention.
  • (18) With cities moving markets, joint procurement standards generate great potential for economies of scale, from buses to smart street lighting.
  • (19) A smart city would use IT to manage traffic so air stays fit to breathe.
  • (20) Pitched as a "smart" calendar, it's easy to create appointments and events, and ties in neatly with the developer's separate Any.do to-do lists app.