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Pronunciation guide for sharp
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of sharp with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Celebrating Lunar New Year
You need a sharp knife.
- Definition summary
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce sharp
Celebrating Lunar New Year
You need a sharp knife.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “sharp”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
- (colloquial) Intelligent.
- (music) Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- (music) Higher in pitch than required.
- Having a strong acrid or acidic taste.
- Sudden, abrupt, intense, rapid.
- (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
- (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd, verging on dishonest.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious; stern or harsh.
- (colloquial) Stylish, smart or attractive.
- Observant; alert; acute.
- Quick and alert.
- Strongly distinguishing or differentiating; acute.
- Forming a small or tight angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- (chess) Tactical; risky.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
- (obsolete) Hungry.
- [Adverb]
- In a sharp manner: a less usual alternative to sharply in certain senses.
- (of times of day, not comparable) Exactly.
- (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.
- (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 ♯.
- (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- (slang, dated) An expert.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”).
- [Verb]
- (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
- To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
- (transitive, obsolete) To sharpen.
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