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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Able to cut easily.
- Able to pierce easily; pointed.
- colloquial Illegal or dishonest.''
- colloquial Intelligent.
- colloquial Stylish or attractive.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Having an intense, acrid flavour.''
- music Higher in pitch than required.
- music Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the name of the note followed by the symbol ?).
- Observant; alert; acute.
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious, as '''''sharp''' criticism.''
- Something sudden and intense.
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Adverb:
- music In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
- notcomp Exactly.
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Noun:
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- medical A hypodermic needle.
- dated A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
- music A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ?.
- music A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- music The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- 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.
- Something which is sharp; usually used in the plural.
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Verb:
- music To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
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