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smile

1. The act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; opposed to frown. Sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles: for smiles from reason flow. (milton)

2. A somewhat similar expression of countenance, indicative of satisfaction combined with malevolent feelings, as contempt, scorn, etc; as, a scornful smile.

3. Favor; countenance; propitiousness; as, the smiles of providence. The smile of heaven.

4. Gay or joyous appearance; as, the smiles of spring. The brightness of their [the flowers'] smile was gone. (bryant)

Origin: CF. Dan. Smiil, Sw. Smil. See Smile.


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What determines facial expressions?

nice answer but abt the question, i thought everyone only smiles when they are happy not just the chinese and aussies.

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by David George
Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:07 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: What determines facial expressions?
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Insilico design ligand

... for the compoud. If it isn't too complicated, the free version of Chemsketch (from ACD) has a structure-to-name function as well as a structure-smiles interconverter if you really need the smiles string. The commercial version of ISISdraw has the same functions, but I'm not sure about the demo ...

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by blcr11
Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:11 am
 
Forum: Bioinformatics
Topic: Insilico design ligand
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Insilico design ligand

Thank u but can u plz tell me abt smiles code.I've structure on spdbv.

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by ss_kalve
Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:35 pm
 
Forum: Bioinformatics
Topic: Insilico design ligand
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Insilico design ligand

Yes, if you can draw the structure using smiles code you can do a search on pubmed.

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by mith
Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:11 am
 
Forum: Bioinformatics
Topic: Insilico design ligand
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The Fiber Disease

... and he did not have the "records" either...yeah, they got to him tooo... so they were all sitting back like fat a$$ Cheshires with big smiles....but one thing they didn't count on was B A G S full of empty prescription bottles in our attic that had all the required information, as well ...

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by Maggie Mae
Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:57 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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