sharps
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Definitions ofsharps
- 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.
Example: "The pitch pipe sounded out a perfect F♯ (F sharp)."
- A note that is played a 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.
Example: "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.
Example: "Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is written in C♯ minor (C sharp minor.)"
- (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
Example: "Place sharps in the specially marked red container for safe disposal."
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
Example: "The casino kept in the break room a set of pictures of known sharps for the bouncers to see."
- 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.
- An expert.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
Example: "That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song!"
- To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
- To sharpen.
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