"sharpen" meaning in 英語

See sharpen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈʃɑɹpɨn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sharpen.wav Forms: sharpens, sharpening, sharpened
Etymology: 源自中古英語 scharpenen、scharpnen,等同於sharp + -en。
  1. 削尖,磨鋒利; 加強,加重 Tags: figuratively, transitive
    Sense id: zh-sharpen-en-verb-P7OfXYQy
  2. 變尖 Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: zh-sharpen-en-verb-QIN8XTNA
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hone〈喻〉, whet Derived forms: sharpener

Inflected forms

Download JSONL data for sharpen meaning in 英語 (2.3kB)

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      "word": "blur"
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      "word": "sharpener"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "源自中古英語 scharpenen、scharpnen,等同於sharp + -en。",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sharpens",
      "raw_tags": [
        "第三人稱單數簡單現在時"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sharpening",
      "raw_tags": [
        "現在分詞"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sharpened",
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        "一般過去時及過去分詞"
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    }
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  "lang": "英語",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to sharpen a pencil or a knife or a musical note",
          "translation": "削鉛筆,磨刀,加重音符"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, 出自 The Guardian Weekly, 卷 189, 期 7,頁號 26:",
          "text": "The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use. Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications."
        }
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        "削尖,磨鋒利; 加強,加重"
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        "變尖"
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      "word": "hone〈喻〉"
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    {
      "word": "whet"
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    {
      "word": "blur"
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    "派生自中古英語的英語詞",
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    "英語動詞",
    "英語詞元"
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      "word": "sharpener"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "源自中古英語 scharpenen、scharpnen,等同於sharp + -en。",
  "forms": [
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        "第三人稱單數簡單現在時"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sharpening",
      "raw_tags": [
        "現在分詞"
      ]
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      "form": "sharpened",
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        "一般過去時及過去分詞"
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "to sharpen a pencil or a knife or a musical note",
          "translation": "削鉛筆,磨刀,加重音符"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, 出自 The Guardian Weekly, 卷 189, 期 7,頁號 26:",
          "text": "The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use. Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications."
        }
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        "transitive"
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      "glosses": [
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      "word": "hone〈喻〉"
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