Sharpener

Definition

sharp /ʃɑ:p/ adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ ထက္ေသာ။ ခြၽန္ေသာ။ a sharp knife/pin/needle ❍ sharp teeth ❍ The shears aren't sharp enough to cut the grass. ❍ ( fig ) sharp features (eg a pointed nose or chin). ၂။ (က) က်ဥ္းေသာေထာင့္။ ႐ုတ္တရက္ နာနာခ်ဳိးရေသာ (အေကြ႕၊ ေထာင့္ခ်ဳိး စသည္)။ a sharp bend in the road ❍ a sharp turn to the left. (ခ) ႐ုတ္တရက္။ တစ္ဟုန္ထိုး။ a sharp drop in prices ❍ a sharp rise in crime ❍ a sharp intake of breath. ၃။ ထင္ရွားျပတ္သားေသာ။ သိသာေသာ။ a sharp outline ❍ a sharp photographic image (ie one with clear contrasts between areas of light and shade) ❍ in sharp focus ❍ There is a sharp contrast between the lives of the poorest and the richest members of society. ၄။ စူးရွေသာ။ က်ယ္ေလာင္ေသာ။ sharp voices ❍ There was a sharp knock on the door. ၅။ ခ်ဥ္ေသာ။ စူးေသာ။ The lemon juice in this pudding makes it taste rather sharp. ၆။ စူးရွေသာ။ ျမက္ေသာ။ a sharp frost/wind ❍ feel a sharp pain in the back. ၇။ လ်င္ေသာ။ ထက္ျမက္ေသာ။ have sharp eyes/ears/reflexes ❍ a sharp person/mind/intelligence ❍ a sharp sense of humour ❍ a sharp sense of smell ❍ keep a sharp lookout ❍ It was very sharp of you to notice that. ၈။ ~ (with sb ) ( derog ) ရက္စက္ေသာ။ မေထာက္ညႇာေသာ။ ပက္စက္ ေသာ။ sharp criticism/words/remarks ❍ She was rather sharp with me (ie spoke harshly to me) when I forgot my book. ❍ have a sharp tongue (ie often speak harshly or angrily). ၉။ (often derog ) လ်င္ေသာ။ ပါးေသာ။ a sharp lawyer/accountant ❍ She was too sharp for me (ie was cleverer and so gained an advantage). ၁၀။ ( infml ) သားနားေသာ။ ေၾကာ့ေမာ့ေသာ။ (ဗန္း)အပ်ံစား။ ၁၁။ ( music ) (က) ျမင့္ေသာ၊ တက္ေသာ(အသံ၊ တူရိယာသံ)။ That note sounded sharp. (ခ) (usu following ns ) (ေရွ႕၌ေဖာ္ျပ ထားသည့္သံပံုထက္)အသံရိွန္တစ္ဝက္ျမင့္ေသာ။ in the key of C sharp minor. ❍ MUSIC Compare FLAT n ၅ n ( symb # ) ( music ) ၁။ (ေဖာ္ျပထားေသာသံပံု၏) ပံုမွန္ထက္ အသံရိွန္တစ္ဝက္မွ် ပိုျမင့္ေသာအသံ။ ၂။ ယင္းသို႔ျမင့္ေၾကာင္းၫႊန္ျပသည့္ သေကၤတ။ ရွပ္။ a difficult piano piece full of sharps and flats. Compare FLAT n ၅, NATURAL adj ၆ adv ၁။ ( infml ) (…နာရီစသည္) တိတိ။ Please be here at seven (o'clock) sharp. ၂။ ( infml ) ဆတ္ခနဲ။ ႐ုတ္တရက္။ နာနာ(ေကြ႕)။ stopped sharp ❍ turn sharp left. ၃။ ( music ) အသံမွန္ထက္ျမင့္လ်က္။ sing sharp. ❏ look sharp [ IDM ] ျမန္ျမန္ေဟ့။ သုတ္သုတ္ေဟ့။ You'd better look sharp or you'll be late. ❏ (as) sharp as a needle ; ( US ) (as) sharp as a tack [ IDM ] အလြန္ လ်င္သည္၊ ပါးသည္။ ပါးလိုက္သမွ ေရႊေလွာင္ စကၠဴက ေအာခ်ရသည္။ ❏ sharpen /'ʃɑ:pǝn/ v ~ (sth) (up) ခြၽန္သည္။ ေသြးသည္။ ထက္ျမက္ေစသည္။ sharpen a pencil ❍ This knife needs sharpening ❍ All this exercise has sharpened my appetite. ❍ This incident has sharpened up public awareness of the economic crisis. ❍ Her eyes/senses sharpened (ie became more alert). ❍ The pole had been sharpened to a point. ❏ the sharp end (of sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေခါင္းအခဲ ရဆံုး။ If anything goes wrong, I'm the one who's at the sharp end (ie who has to suffer the consequences). ❏ sharpener /'ʃɑ:pnǝ(r)/ n (usu in compounds) ခြၽန္စက္။ (ဓားစသည္)ေသြးစက္။ a pencil-sharpener ❍ a knife-sharpener. ❏ sharp-eyed adj မ်က္စိရွင္ေသာ။ A sharp-eyed police officer spotted the stolen car. ❏ sharpish adj ခပ္ခြၽန္ခြၽန္။ ခပ္ထက္ထက္။ with a sharpish point at the end. adv ( infml ) အျမန္။ I want this room tidied up sharpish! ❏ sharply adv (က) ခြၽန္စြာ။ ထက္စြာ။ sharply pointed. (ခ) သိသိသာသာ။ prices dropping sharply ❍ sharply contrasted styles ❍ The road bends sharply. (ဂ) ေငါက္ငမ္း လ်က္။ She spoke sharply to the child. ❏ sharpness n [U] ျပတ္သားၾကည္လင္မႈ။ adjust the camera lens to obtain maximum sharpness. ❏ sharp practice n [U] ႏြားမရႊံ႕ပိတ္ေရာင္းျခင္း။ ႏွစ္ေပါက္ တစ္ေပါက္႐ိုက္ျခင္း။

Examples

1. Cut the melon in half using a sharp knife.
2. The cage should have no sharp edges that might cause injury.
3. These scissors aren’t very sharp.
4. Sharp teeth/claws
5. A sharp pencil
6. [a sharp rise/increase] : Shops are reporting a sharp rise in sales of organic produce.
7. [a sharp decline/drop/fall] : This month’s figures show a sharp drop in unemployment.
8. As we approached a sharp bend in the road
9. the bus slowed down.
10. I felt a sharp pain in my foot.
11. Lindsey felt a sharp pang of guilt.
12. There was a sharp intake of breath when the prizewinners were announced.
13. A sharp crack of gunfire
14. A sharp cry of fear
15. Some of these kids are pretty sharp when it comes to maths.
16. He has a sharp wit and a wicked sense of humour.
17. [keep a sharp eye/lookout on something] : The Agency keeps a sharp eye on sales of arms abroad.
18. The new high-definition TV offers razor-sharp pictures and digital sound.
19. My father shot her a sharp look but said nothing.
20. Sharp words were exchanged.
21. The deal has come under sharp criticism from the opposition parties.
22. The warm weather was in sharp contrast to last year’s cold temperatures.
23. Sharp cheddar cheese
24. A sharp dresser
25. A sharp suit
26. A sharp operator
27. Chopin’s Nocturne in C sharp minor