cap opener
- noun
:
abridor de botellas
- He reached for the cap opener to remove the stubborn bottle cap.
Examples
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Please hand me the cap opener; I can't open this soda by hand.
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The picnic basket included a cap opener for the glass bottles.
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I need a cap opener to open this bottle.
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The cap opener is on the kitchen counter.
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He reached for the cap opener to remove the stubborn bottle cap.
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Please hand me the cap opener; I can't open this soda by hand.
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The picnic basket included a cap opener for the glass bottles.
Synonyms
61
1.3
A tool used to take the cap or lid off things like bottles
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1.0
A tool for taking off caps or corks from bottles
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'cap' (a removable lid) with 'opener' (a tool for opening), so its meaning as a tool for removing bottle caps is directly derivable from the parts. This is a productive, literal compounding pattern common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Cap opener is a simple name: it is a small opener that lifts a bottle cap off. So the name means 'a tool used to remove the metal caps of bottles'.