sharp
/ʃɑɹp/ noun C2- 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. · The pitch pipe sounded out a perfect F♯ (F sharp).· Transposition frequently is harder to read because of all the sharps and flats on the staff.
- A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ⟨♯⟩.
- A note that is sharp in a particular key. · The piece was difficult to read after it had been transposed, since in the new key many notes were sharps.
- The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic. · Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is written in C♯ minor (C sharp minor).
- Something that is sharp. · Place sharps in the specially marked red container for safe disposal.
- A hypodermic syringe.
- A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
- A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
Plural sharps
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They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether, there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.”
And then she called a dozen of her slaves, who were the Winkies, and gave them sharp spears, telling them to go to the strangers and destroy them.
There now came a sharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turned their eyes that way they saw ripples in the grass coming from that direction also.
With one blow of his paw he sent the Scarecrow spinning over and over to the edge of the road, and then he struck at the Tin Woodman with his sharp claws.
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