Word Finder - sharp

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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.

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The pitch pipe sounded out a perfect F♯ (F sharp).

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A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.

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A note that is sharp in a particular key.

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The piece was difficult to read after it had been transposed, since in the new key many notes were sharps.

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The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.

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Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is written in C♯ minor (C sharp minor.)

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(usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.

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Place sharps in the specially marked red container for safe disposal.

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A dishonest person; a cheater.

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The casino kept in the break room a set of pictures of known sharps for the bouncers to see.

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Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.

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A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.

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(in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.

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An expert.

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A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).

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To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.

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That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song!

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To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.

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To sharpen.

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Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.

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A face with sharp features

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Intelligent.

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My nephew is a sharp lad; he can count to 100 in six languages, and he's only five years old.

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Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).

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Higher in pitch than required.

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The orchestra's third violin several times was sharp about an eighth of a tone.

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Having an intense, acrid flavour.

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Milly couldn't stand sharp cheeses when she was pregnant, because they made her nauseated.

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Sudden and intense.

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A pregnant woman during labor normally experiences a number of sharp contractions.

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Illegal or dishonest.

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Michael had a number of sharp ventures that he kept off the books.

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Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.

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a sharp dealer;  a sharp customer

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Exact, precise, accurate; keen.

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You'll need sharp aim to make that shot.

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Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.

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When the two rivals met, first there were sharp words, and then a fight broke out.

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Stylish or attractive.

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You look so sharp in that tuxedo!

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Observant; alert; acute.

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Keep a sharp watch on the prisoners. I don't want them to escape!

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Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.

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Drive down Main for three quarters of a mile, then make a sharp right turn onto Pine.

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Steep; precipitous; abrupt.

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a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve

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(of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.

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Sure, any planar graph can be five-colored. But that result is not sharp: in fact, any planar graph can be four-colored. That is sharp: the same can't be said for any lower number.

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Tactical; risky.

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Piercing; keen; severe; painful.

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a sharp pain; the sharp and frosty winter air

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Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.

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a sharp appetite

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Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.

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Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.

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Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.

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Hungry.

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To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.

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(notcomp) Exactly.

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I'll see you at twelve o'clock sharp.

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In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.

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I didn't enjoy the concert much because the tenor kept going sharp on the high notes.

Somewhere up ahead was a sharp turn.

The wound opened again and the salt he threw into it drew a sharp response from her.

I felt a sharp sting as the blade cut.

At the bottom of the hill a sharp turn waited.

The only thing she accomplished was cutting her hands on the sharp rocks.

It was no fun to be pulled over the sharp stones in that way; but it was better than to be bitten by the wolf.

I cried out and my throat suddenly blazed in sharp pain.

He threw her a sharp look over his shoulder.

His bite was sharp enough to make tears spring into her eyes.

She maneuvered the sharp turn and started up the hill.

His sharp gaze took her in.

At five o'clock sharp, Adrienne left the hospital.

Dusty slammed the door behind him and entered the living room, his sharp gaze taking in every dark corner before he sat.

What would it be like to run her hands over Darkyn's lean frame the way she had Gabriel's, to feel his sharp teeth nip the delicate skin of her inner thighs and breasts?

His sharp tone made her jump.

She turned, surprised to see the middle-aged woman in grey robes and sharp brown eyes.

He gave her a sharp look.

One was of medium height and slender, an older man with sharp green eyes the color of forest moss who seemed out of place in the middle of the room.

Look sharp! several voices repeated around him.

At his sharp tone, she quickly changed the subject, saying, "After the meeting, I have to go."

You haven't many teeth left, Jim, but the few you have are sharp enough to make me shudder.

After a sharp drop, their tumble slowed suddenly.

You have picked out a suit, a sharp grey one with barely detectable pinstripes.

The town presents a picturesque appearance from the Nile, which at this point makes a sharp bend.

For the present he experienced a sharp rebuff of fortune, which he met with his usual fortitude.

The opposition in the Tribunate was sharp, but was paralysed by the knowledge of the fact just named and by the lack of a free press.

During the course of a tour in Italy in December 1807 he gave a sharp turn to that world-compelling screw, the Continental System.

About institutions we have less certain knowledge, there being but little evidence for the earlier periods; but in the documents relating to religion, the most significant of all, it can at least be said that there is no trace of sharp change.

Sharp (1898), the marked divergence among the Hexapoda, as regards life-history, is between insects whose wings develop outside the cuticle (Exopterygota) and those whose wings develop inside the cuticle (Endopterygota), becoming visible only when the casting of the last larval cuticle reveals the pupa.

The result was sharp fighting between English and French in a time of nominal peace.

The aa is lava broken into fragments having sharp and jagged edges.

For early forcing, as in vineries, the lean-to form is to be preferred, and the house may have a tolerably sharp pitch.

Sharp, is unlikely to be superseded by the result of any researches into minute imaginal structure.

Sharp's proposed association of the parasitic wingless insects in a group Anapterygota cannot, however, be defended as natural; and recent researches into the structure of these forms enables us to associate them confidently with related winged orders.

The classification here adopted is based on Sharp's scheme, with the addition of suggestions from some of the most recent authors - especially Bdrner and Enderlein.

Demons, when they are regarded as spirits, may belong to either of the classes of spirits recognized by primitive animism; that is to say, they may be human, or non-human, separable souls, or discarnate spirits which have never inhabited a body; a sharp distinction is often drawn between these two classes, notably by the Melanesians, the West Africans and others; the Arab jinn, for example, are not reducible to modified human souls; at the same time these classes are frequently conceived as producing identical results, e.g.

The finest residence streets are in the Back Bay, which is laid out, in sharp contrast with the older quarters, in a regular, rectangular arrangement.

The bite, for example, of large species of the family Aviculariidae, sometimes called Mygales, and sometimes, but erroneously, known as tarantulas, species which have fangs half an inch long and as sharp as needles and a considerable quantity of poison, may be very painful, though seldom serious provided the health of the patient be good.

The most effective tool against the weeds is a broad sharp " sweep," as it is called, which takes everything it meets, while going shallower than most ploughs.

Their principal use is to give a sharp jar to the drill on the upstroke so that the bit is dislodged if it has become jammed in the rock.

It became a convention of diplomacy, designed to cover any particularly sharp piece of policy which needed some excuse; and the treaty of Granada, formed between Louis XII.

Where Javanese is the principal language, Malay is sometimes found written with Javanese characters; and in Palembang, in the Menangkabo country of Middle Sumatra, the Rechang or Renchong characters are in general use, so called from the sharp and pointed knife with which they are cut on the smooth side of bamboo staves.

Soaps are also prepared in which large proportions of fine sharp sand, or of powdered pumice, are incorporated, and these substances, by their abrading action, powerfully assist the detergent influence of the soap on hands much begrimed by manufacturing operations.'

Only a small force was left to guard the Chattanooga railway, and the Union forces, Howard on the right, Thomas in the centre, and Schofield on the left, reached the railway after some sharp fighting (action of Jonesboro', September 1).

The Eskimo dog has small, upright ears, a straight bushy tail, moderately sharp muzzle and rough coat.

There is not now the sharp distinction which formerly existed between Friends and other non-sacerdotal evangelical bodies; these have, in theory at least, largely accepted the spiritual message of Quakerism.

A committee was formed on the 22nd of May 1787 for the abolition of the slave trade, under the presidency of Granville Sharp. It is unquestionable that the principal motive power which originated and sustained their efforts was Christian principle and feeling.

The strips (inae, philyrae), which were cut with a sharp knife or some such instrument, were laid on a board side by side to the required width, thus forming a layer (scheda), across which another layer of shorter strips was laid at right angles.

Hedenbergite, or calcium iron pyroxene, is a black mineral closely allied to diopside and, owing to the isomorphous replacement of iron by magnesium, there is no sharp line of division between them.

Finally, we have the family Rhinocerotidae, which includes the existing representatives of the group. In this family the dentition has undergone considerable reduction, and may be represented inclusive of all the variations, by the formula i a or a m a The first upper incisor, whenpresent, has an 430r2; PP antero-posteriorly elongated crown, but the second is small; when fully developed, the lower canine is a large forwardly directed tusk-like tooth with sharp cutting-edges, and biting against the first upper incisor.