Sharpen vs Critic - What's the difference?
sharpen | critic |
(transitive, sometimes, figurative) To make sharp
* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
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* Macaulay
A specialist in judging works of art.
One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
* I. Watts
An opponent.
(an act of criticism)
* Alexander Pope
(the art of criticism)
* John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550
(obsolete, ambitransitive) To criticise.
* A. Brewer
As a verb sharpen
is (transitive|sometimes|figurative) to make sharp.As an adjective critic is
critical.As a noun critic is
critic.sharpen
English
Verb
(en verb)- He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.
Antonyms
* bluntDerived terms
* sharpenercritic
English
(wikipedia critic)Alternative forms
* critick (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- The opinion of the most skilful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's Traveller ] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the Dunciad.
- When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
- Make each day a critic on the last.
- And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic , than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Verb
- Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.