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What does sharp mean?

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Adjective
  1. Able to cut easily.
  2. (colloquial) Intelligent.
  3. Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded.
  4. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
  5. (music) Higher in pitch than required.
  6. Having an intense, acrid flavour.
  7. Sudden and intense.
  8. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
  9. (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
  10. Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
  11. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
  12. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
  13. Observant; alert; acute.
  14. Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
  15. Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
  16. (mathematics) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
  17. (chess) Tactical; risky.
  18. Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
  19. Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
  20. (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
  21. Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
  22. (phonetics) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
Adverb
  1. To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
  2. (not comparable) Exactly.
  3. (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
Noun
  1. (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.
  2. (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
  3. (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
  4. (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
  5. (plural) Something that is sharp.
  6. A sharp tool or weapon.
  7. (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
  8. (medicine) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
  9. A dishonest person; a cheater.
  10. Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
  11. A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
  12. (plural) middlings
  13. (slang, dated) An expert.
  14. A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
Verb
  1. (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
  2. To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
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