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sharpener

English

Etymology

sharpen +? -er

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /????(?)p?n?(?)/

Noun

sharpener (plural sharpeners)

  1. A device for making things sharp.
    There was a pencil sharpener at the front of the classroom.
  2. (figuratively) That which makes something sharp.
    • 1795, Hannah More, The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain
      “Sir,” said the shepherd, “poverty is a great sharpener of the wits. []
    • 1872, Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts
      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. (informal) An alcoholic drink taken at the start of the day, or just before a meal.

Related terms

  • sharp
  • pencil sharpener

Translations

Anagrams

  • resharpen

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eraser

English

Etymology

erase +? -er

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: ?-r?z?, IPA(key): /???e?z?/
  • (US) enPR: ?-r?s?r, IPA(key): /???e?s?/
  • Rhymes: -e?z?(?) (UK)
  • Rhymes: -e?s?(?) (US)

Noun

eraser (plural erasers)

  1. One who erases.
  2. (Canada, US) A thing used to erase or remove something written or drawn by a pen or a pencil.
    I have worn out the eraser on this pencil.
  3. (Canada, US) A thing used to erase something written by chalk on a chalkboard, by marker on a whiteboard, or by some other erasable implement; a chalkboard eraser, whiteboard eraser, etc.
  4. (computing) An overwriter program used to prevent data recovery.

Synonyms

  • (thing used to remove markings): (UK, India) rubber, (UK) india rubber, (UK) bungee

Translations

Anagrams

  • Reaser, rarees, searer, serrae

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