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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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