chisel
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.
- 2.
A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
- 3.
(uncountable, usually)Gravel.
- 4.
(plural normally, uncountable, usually)(usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive)To use a chisel.
Đồng nghĩa: chip
- 2.
(transitive)To work something with a chisel.
She chiselled a sculpture out of the block of wood.
Đồng nghĩa: chip
- 3.
(dated, transitive)To barge in on (something); to intrude on (something).
- 4.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To make small changes to (something), bit by bit, resulting in change over time.
Laws that protect the environment are being chiseled away.
Đồng nghĩa: chip away
- 5.
(ambitransitive, informal)To beg or pressure somebody into giving up (something); to haggle excessively; to cheat; to obtain something from (someone) by cheating.
He's managed to chisel a couple dollars from somewhere.
She can always chisel whatever she needs from her father.
She's always either chiseling or groveling, it seems.
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