(phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
Having an intense, acrid flavour.
Observant; alert; acute.
Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
Sudden and intense.
Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.
adv
(music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
(not comparable) Exactly.
To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
noun
(in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
(medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
(medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
(music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
(music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
(music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
(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.
(slang, dated) An expert.
(usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
A dishonest person; a cheater.
A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
A sharp tool or weapon.
A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
verb
(music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
(transitive, obsolete) To sharpen.
To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
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shrap
noun
(obsolete) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.