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▸ adjective: (colloquial) Intelligent.
▸ adjective: (music) Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
▸ adjective: (music) Higher in pitch than required.
▸ adjective: Having a strong acrid or acidic taste.
▸ adjective: Sudden, abrupt, intense, rapid.
▸ adjective: (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
▸ adjective: (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd, verging on dishonest.
▸ adjective: Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
▸ adjective: Offensive, critical, or acrimonious; stern or harsh.
▸ adjective: (colloquial) Stylish, smart or attractive.
▸ adjective: Observant; alert; acute.
▸ adjective: Quick and alert.
▸ adjective: Strongly distinguishing or differentiating; acute.
▸ adjective: Forming a small or tight angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
▸ adjective: Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
▸ adjective: (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
▸ adjective: (chess) Tactical; risky.
▸ adjective: Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
▸ adjective: Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
▸ adjective: Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
▸ adjective: (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Hungry.
▸ adverb: In a sharp manner: a less usual alternative to sharply in certain senses.
▸ adverb: To a point or edge.
▸ adverb: Piercingly.
▸ adverb: Eagerly.
▸ adverb: So as to make a sharp, or tight, angle.
▸ adverb: (of times of day, not comparable) Exactly.
▸ adverb: (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
▸ 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 one chromatic semitone higher.
▸ noun: (music) A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
▸ noun: (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
▸ noun: (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
▸ noun: (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
▸ noun: (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
▸ noun: (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
▸ noun: (psychiatry, healthcare) A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
▸ noun: A dishonest person; a cheater.
▸ noun: Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
▸ noun: A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
▸ noun: (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
▸ noun: (slang, dated) An expert.
▸ noun: A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
▸ verb: (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
▸ verb: To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To sharpen.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: A Japanese and Taiwanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products, headquartered in Sakai, Japan.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri, United States.
▸ noun: Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”) [(colloquial) An alert person.]
▸ noun: Acronym of skinhead against racial prejudice.
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