Usually means: Able to cut or pierce.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sharp, sharp: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sharp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Sharp, sharp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sharp: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sharp: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sharp, sharp: Wordnik
  7. sharp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Sharp, sharp: Wiktionary
  9. sharp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sharp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sharp: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. SHARP: Dictionary.com
  13. sharp (adj.), sharp (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sharp: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SHARP (helmet ratings), Sharp (Angela Winbush album), Sharp (Korean band), Sharp (South Korean band), Sharp (TV series), Sharp (band), Sharp (company), Sharp (disambiguation), Sharp (flour), Sharp (group), Sharp (magazine), Sharp (music), Sharp (surname), Sharp, The Sharp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sharp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sharp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sharp: Rhymezone
  19. sharp: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sharp: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Sharp: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. SHARP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Sharp, Sharp: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. sharp: Free Dictionary
  25. sharp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Sharp: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. sharp: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  7. Sharp: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  8. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sharp (disambiguation), sharp: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sharp: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. sharp: CCI Computer
  3. Sharp: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. Sharp (disambiguation), sharp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sharp: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SHARP, Sharp (disambiguation): Medical dictionary
  4. Sharp: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. SHARP: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. sharp: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sharp, sharp, sharp, sharp, sharp, sharp, sharp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sharp: The Folk File
  3. S.H.A.R.P, s.h.a.r.p: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sharp: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  2. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  4. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
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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