sharpener — Английский словарь

Существительное

1. A device for making things sharp.

   Примеры

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

2. That which makes something sharp.

   Употребление

   • переносное

   Примеры

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

   Другие примеры (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.

   Употребление

   • неофициальное

   Примеры

   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.

   Другие примеры (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”.

Существительное

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

   Более общие понятия

   implement

   Примеры

   a knife sharpener