pencil sharpener in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for pencil sharpener in the English»Spanish Dictionary

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sharpener [Am ˈʃɑrp(ə)nər, Brit ˈʃɑːpnə] N

I.pencil [Am ˈpɛnsəl, Brit ˈpɛns(ə)l, ˈpɛnsɪl] N

II.pencil <penciling penciled Am pencilling pencilled Brit> [Am ˈpɛnsəl, Brit ˈpɛns(ə)l, ˈpɛnsɪl] VB trans

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pencil sharpener in the PONS Dictionary

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It may be his latest baby, the pencil sharpener, that lives on.
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A wide range of goods from refrigerators to pencil sharpeners was produced in streamlined designs.
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You can use it as a manual pencil sharpener that will never get lost in your desk drawer.
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Backstage, the hair and make-up rooms at the shows are hectic, sweaty, cramped, exciting places to be, with no time to dig around for a spare pencil sharpener.
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She needs to get her pencil sharpener out and do her figures again.
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Somewhere along the line, the office boy devolved into an electric pencil sharpener.
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Note the attached "pen... on a chain", arguably the greatest office efficiency device invented since the pencil sharpener.
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Remember the story of the pencil sharpener that cost $143 to install?
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Which part of your foot feels like you shoved it in an electric pencil sharpener?
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An artist's or draftsman's pencil sharpener leaves the graphite untouched and sharpens only the wood.
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