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- [hwet-stohn, wet-]
- /ˈʰwɛtˌstoʊn, ˈwɛt-/
- /ˈwet.stəʊn/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [hwet-stohn, wet-]
- /ˈʰwɛtˌstoʊn, ˈwɛt-/
Definitions of whetstone word
- noun whetstone a stone for sharpening cutlery or tools by friction. 1
- noun whetstone anything that sharpens: a whetstone for dull wits. 1
- noun whetstone A fine-grained stone used for sharpening cutting tools. 1
- noun whetstone stone for sharpening tools 1
- noun Technical meaning of whetstone (benchmark) The first major synthetic benchmark program, intended to be representative for numerical (floating-point intensive) programming. It is based on statistics gathered by Brian Wichmann at the National Physical Laboratory in England, using an Algol 60 compiler which translated Algol into instructions for the imaginary Whetstone machine. The compilation system was named after the small town of Whetstone outside the City of Leicester, England, where it was designed. The later dhrystone benchmark was a pun on Whetstone. Source code: C, single precision Fortran, double precision Fortran. 1
- countable noun whetstone A whetstone is a stone which is used for sharpening knives or other tools that have a blade. 0
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Origin of whetstone
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English whetston, Old English hwetstān. See whet, stone
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Parts of speech for Whetstone
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whetstone popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for whetstone
noun whetstone
- grindstone — a rotating solid stone wheel used for sharpening, shaping, etc.
- hone — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- steel — any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- grinder — a person or thing that grinds.
- stone — the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
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