sharpener — قاموس الإنجليزية

اسم

1. A device for making things sharp.

   أمثلة

   There was a pencil sharpener at the front of the classroom.

2. That which makes something sharp.

   الاستعمال

   • مجازي

   أمثلة

   “Sir,” said the shepherd, “poverty is a great sharpener of the wits. […]

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   The snuff-box, knife, and chicken-bones were again in requisition, and a pen was successfully formed. The ink, or at least its substitute, was rather more difficult, but necessity is always a sharpener of intellect, and even this was accomplished.

3. An alcoholic drink taken at the start of the day, or just before a meal.

   الاستعمال

   • غير رسمي

   أمثلة

   The summery G&T somehow loses its clink-clink-fizz perfection as an after-work sharpener and just seems to rub our noses in the dank gloom ahead.

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   And the new daycap has little in common with the stiff gin of the old-fashioned sharpener. Instead, it revolves around “spritz culture, mood-based cocktails, and small serves that tap into the sweet treat economy”.

اسم

1. any implement that is used to make something (an edge or a point) sharper

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   implement

   أمثلة

   a knife sharpener