sharpener — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Danh từ

1. A device for making things sharp.

   Ví dụ

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

2. That which makes something sharp.

   Cách dùng

   • nghĩa bóng

   Ví dụ

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

   Thêm ví dụ (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.

   Cách dùng

   • không trang trọng

   Ví dụ

   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.

   Thêm ví dụ (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”.

Danh từ

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

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   implement

   Ví dụ

   a knife sharpener