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Definition sharp

Etymology

From Middle English scharp, from Old English s?earp, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-. Cognate with West Frisian skerp, Low German scharp, Dutch scherp, German scharf, Danish skarp. Compare Irish cearb (“keen; cutting”), Latin acerbus (“tart, bitter”), Tocharian B kärpye (“rough”), Latvian skârbs (“sharp, rough”), Russian ????? (š?erba, “notch”), Albanian harb (“rudeness”), from *(s)ker- (“to cut”). More at shear.

Adjective

sharp (comparative sharper, superlative sharpest)

1. Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.
2. (colloquial) Intelligent.
3. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ? after the name of the note).
4. (music) Higher in pitch than required.
5. Having an intense, acrid flavour.
6. Sudden and intense.
7. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
8. (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
9. Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
10. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
11. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
12. Observant; alert; acute.
13. Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
14. Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
15. (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
16. (chess) Tactical; risky.
17. Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
18. Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
19. (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
20. Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
21. (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.

Adverb

sharp (comparative sharper, superlative sharpest)

1. To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
2. (not comparable) Exactly.
3. (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.

Noun

sharp (plural sharps)

1. (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.
2. (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ?.
3. (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
4. (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
5. (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
6. A sharp tool or weapon.
7. (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
8. (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
9. A dishonest person; a cheater.
10. Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
11. A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
12. (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
13. (slang, dated) An expert.
14. A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).

Verb

sharp (third-person singular simple present sharps, present participle sharping, simple past and past participle sharped)

1. (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
2. To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To sharpen.

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