smarten
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsmɑːt(ə)n/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: smart‧en
Verb
smarten (third-person singular simple present smartens, present participle smartening, simple past and past participle smartened)
- (transitive) To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up.
- 1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting.
- (transitive) To increase the speed of (one's travel on foot, etc.).
- 2001, Vernon Robinson, If I Should Die Before I Wake, page 264:
- I braced myself and smartened my pace, shouldering my way through the crowd.
- (transitive) To augment with computer technology.
- Synonym: computerize
- 2008, Roger Neeson Anderson, Albert Boulanger, John A. Johnson, Computer-aided Lean Management for the Energy Industry, page 335:
- How do we achieve this smartening of the grid? The CALM approach in the future will be to use reinforcement learning (RL) controllers as a basis for optimizing the synergy between operators and automation.
Derived terms
Middle English
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