Smartenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɑːt(ə)n/
• ハイフネーション: smart‧en

動詞

smarten (三人称単数 現在形 smartens, 現在分詞 smartening, 過去形および過去分詞形 smartened)

1. (transitive) To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up.
   • 1997 June 26, J. K. 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.

2. (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.

3. (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.

アナグラム

• Arments, artsmen, martens, raments, sarment, starmen