Sharp
- Adjective. Able to cut easily.
- Adjective. (colloquial) Intelligent.
- Adjective. Able to pierce easily; pointed.
- Adjective. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol (term, ♯) after the name of the note).
- Adjective. (music) Higher in pitch than required.
- Adjective. Having an intense, acrid flavour.''.
- Adjective. sudden and intense.
- Adjective. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.''.
- Adjective. Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Adjective. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious, as '''''sharp''' criticism.''.
- Adjective. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
- Adjective. Observant; alert; acute.
- Adjective. Forming a small angle; (non-gloss definition, especially,) forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Adjective. (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Adverb. (notcomp) Exactly.
- Adverb. (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
- Noun. (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher.
- Noun. (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- Noun. (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- Noun. (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- Noun. Something which is sharp; usually used in the plural.
- Noun. (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
- Noun. (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
- Noun. A dishonest person; a cheater.
- Verb. (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
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