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dagger-sharp
honed
sharp
sharpen
quick on one's feet
sharpener
acidulous
nasal
rapier
edgy
oversharpness
oversharp
snithy
snithe
supersharp
acuate
pickpenny
cutting
crisp
stabbing
pungent
acrid
razor-sharp
sharpness
sharp-pointed
keenness
saucy
angular
prickly
pike
pricky
needle-sharp
acuteness
sharpened
point
acuation
sharply
tart
sharpish
tusk
break
mordacious
exquisite
hone
A-sharp major
knifelike
A-sharp
keen
fulgurating
A♯
switchbladed
stabby
acicular
undull
C♯
shrewd
resharpen
razorlike
vorpal
angularity
pointel
sharpishly
acute
whet
impale
spiculate
empale
razor edge
intense
transfix
spike
acuminate
burr
bifacial
pointed
astringent
pricking
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swat
snap
unsharpen
scissible
crack
whetstone
stickle
spiked
cut like a knife
incised
dagger-sharp
honed
quick on one's feet
acidulous
nasal
rapier
edgy
oversharp
snithy
snithe
supersharp
acuate
cutting
crisp
stabbing
pungent
acrid
razor-sharp
sharp-pointed
saucy
angular
prickly
pricky
needle-sharp
sharpened
tart
sharpish
mordacious
exquisite
knifelike
keen
fulgurating
switchbladed
stabby
acicular
undull
shrewd
razorlike
vorpal
acute
intense
bifacial
pointed
astringent
scissible
spiked
incised
sharply
sharpishly
sharp
sharpener
oversharpness
pickpenny
sharpness
keenness
pike
acuteness
point
acuation
tusk
break
A-sharp major
A-sharp
A♯
C♯
angularity
pointel
razor edge
burr
pricking
swat
stickle
sharpen
hone
resharpen
whet
impale
spiculate
empale
transfix
spike
acuminate
snap
unsharpen
crack
whetstone
cut like a knife
adj
noun
- Something that is sharp.
- A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- A sharp tool or weapon.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- 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.
- 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.
- A hypodermic syringe.
adj
- Higher in pitch than required.
- Intelligent.
- Having an intense, acrid flavour.
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
- Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.
- Illegal or dishonest.
- Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
- Tactical; risky.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Stylish or attractive.
- Sudden and intense.
- Observant; alert; acute.
verb
- To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
- To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
adv
adj
adj
- Sharp, penetrating.
- Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
- Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.
- Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.
noun
adj
- Sharp; having prominent edges.
- Cool by virtue of being tough, dark, or badass.
- Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
- On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué.
- Nervous, apprehensive.
- Exhibiting behavior that is disconcerting or alarming, sometimes in an effort to impress or to troll others.
- Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge.
noun
adj
- Piercing, sharp.
- Of criticism, remarks, etc.: (potentially) hurtful.
- Of a beverage: half-sized.
- That is used for cutting.
noun
- A section removed from a larger whole.
- The editing of film or other recordings.
- An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
- A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
- The action of the verb to cut.
- The act of cutting one's own skin as a symptom of a mental disorder; self-harm.
- A newspaper clipping.
- An open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through.
- The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
adj
- Sharp, clearly defined.
- Brief and to the point.
- having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
- Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
- Quick and accurate.
- Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
- Dry and cold.
- Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
noun
- A very thin slice of potato that has been deep fried, typically packaged and sold as a snack.
- A baked dessert made with fruit and crumb topping
- Anything baked or fried in thin slices and eaten as a snack.
verb
adj
- Sharp-cornered; pointed.
- Sharp and stiff in character.
- Lean, lank.
- Having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner
- Relating or pertaining to an angle or angles.
- Composed of three or more rings attached to a single carbon atom (the rings not all being in the same plane).
- Ungraceful; lacking grace.
- Measured by an angle.
noun
noun
- a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
- a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
- medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
- any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere
noun
- The sharp tip of an object.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
noun
- A sharp point.
- One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
- A tusk shell.
- A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).
- The share of a plough.
- A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
- A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
verb
noun
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- the theoretical major key with A-sharp as its tonic and the notes A#, B#, C𝄪, D#, E#, F𝄪, G𝄪. Such a high number of accidentals (especially double sharps) is undesirable. Therefore, it is usually scored and referred to as its enharmonic equivalent; B-flat major.
- the major chord with a root of A-sharp
noun
noun
verb
verb
- pierce with a sharp stake or point
- stand in the way of
- secure with spikes
- bring forth a spike or spikes
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- manifest a sharp increase
noun
- a transient variation in voltage or current
- sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
- a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline
- a very high narrow heel on women's shoes
- each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves)
- a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)
- a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
- a large stout nail
noun
- A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
- A uvular "r" sound, or (by extension) an accent characterized by this sound.
- And when his body was against the burr of the spear, he took his sword in both his hands and he swung the sword above his head, and he smote King Arthur with the edge of the sword upon the helmet.
- A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
- Many saddles, especially those for use on warhorses, had high burr plates and cantles. this was especially important when knights began using stirrups and the couched lance.
- A rough humming sound.
- 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia
- A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
- 2015, James B. Tschen-Emmons, Artifacts from Medieval Europe, page 280
- A burr knot or burl.
- 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry
- A revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces used to grind hard products in a grinder or mill.
- We are made to witness a cathartic shuffling-off of mortalities and of hatreds: Mordred's pulling himself up to the 'burr' of Arthur's spear is Malory's own detail and one of the most memorable in the book.
- A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing.
- A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
- The ear lobe.
- A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
- The knot at the bottom of an antler.
- The front of it was defended by an iron-plate, called a vam-plat, that is, an avant-plate, and behind it was a broad iron ring, called a burr.
- burr or ring of iron behind the hand
- 2003, Thomas Howard Crofts, Fifteenth-century Malory, page 290
- 2012, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur
verb
adj
- Sharp, barbed; not dull.
- Directed negatively at a person or topic.
- Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.
- That has a named, but otherwise arbitrary, point (called the basepoint) that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion and is kept track of during all operations.
- In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.
verb
- make a sharp sound
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- move or strike with a noise
- close with a snapping motion
- move with a snapping sound
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- put in play with a snap
- cause to make a snapping sound
- lose control of one's emotions
- bring the jaws together
- record on photographic film
noun
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a spell of cold weather
- tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
- a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
- the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- a sudden sharp noise
- a sudden breaking
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
verb
- make a sharp sound
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- make a very sharp explosive sound
- hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise
- pass through (a barrier)
- break partially but keep its integrity
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- tell spontaneously
- cause to become cracked
- reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
- break into simpler molecules by means of heat
adj
noun
- a long narrow cleft
- a narrow opening
- a long narrow depression in a surface
- a sudden sharp noise
- a chance to do something
- witty remark
- a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts
- a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
- a usually brief attempt
- the act of cracking something
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