Sharp

  1. Adjective.  Able to cut easily.
  2. Adjective.  (colloquial) Intelligent.
  3. Adjective.  Able to pierce easily; pointed.
  4. Adjective.  (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol (term, ♯) after the name of the note).
  5. Adjective.  (music) Higher in pitch than required.
  6. Adjective.  Having an intense, acrid flavour.''.
  7. Adjective.  sudden and intense.
  8. Adjective.  (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.''.
  9. Adjective.  Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
  10. Adjective.  Offensive, critical, or acrimonious, as '''''sharp''' criticism.''.
  11. Adjective.  (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
  12. Adjective.  Observant; alert; acute.
  13. Adjective.  Forming a small angle; (non-gloss definition, especially,) forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
  14. Adjective.  (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
  15. Adverb.  (notcomp) Exactly.
  16. Adverb.  (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
  17. 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.
  18. 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 ♯.
  19. Noun.  (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
  20. Noun.  (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
  21. Noun.  Something which is sharp; usually used in the plural.
  22. Noun.  (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
  23. Noun.  (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
  24. Noun.  A dishonest person; a cheater.
  25. Verb.  (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.

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