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sharp | stabby |

In lang=en terms the difference between sharp and stabby

is that sharp is to raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp while stabby is acting in a violent and/or deranged manner.

As an adverb sharp

is to a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.

As a noun sharp

is 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.

As a verb sharp

is to raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.

As a proper noun Sharp

is {{surname}.

sharp

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Able to cut easily.
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  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
  • (lb) Intelligent.
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  • * {{quote-news, author=(Jesse Jackson), title=In the Ferguson era, Malcolm X’s courage in fighting racism inspires more than ever, work=(The Guardian) (London), date=20 February 2015 citation
  • , passage=At school, despite his sharp mind, Malcolm was laughed at by teachers when he said he wanted to be a lawyer. }}
  • Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded.
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  • (lb) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol after the name of the note).
  • (lb) Higher in pitch than required.
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  • Having an intense, acrid flavour.''
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  • Sudden and intense.
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  • *:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
  • (lb) Illegal or dishonest.
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  • (lb) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
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  • *(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
  • *:the necessity of being so sharp and exacting
  • Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
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  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
  • Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
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  • (lb) Stylish or attractive.
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  • Observant; alert; acute.
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  • Forming a small angle; forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
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  • *1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
  • *:The street down which Warwick had come intersected Front Street at a sharp angle in front of the old hotel, forming a sort of flatiron block at the junction, known as Liberty Point
  • Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
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  • Said of as extreme a value as possible.
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  • (lb) Tactical; risky.
  • *1963 , Max Euwe, Chess Master Vs. Chess Amateur (page xviii)
  • *:Time and time again, the amateur player has lost the opportunity to make the really best move because he felt bound to follow some chess "rule" he had learned, rather than to make the sharp move which was indicated by the position.
  • *1975 , Lud?k Pachman, Decisive Games in Chess History (page 64)
  • *:In such situations most chess players choose the ohvious and logical way: they go in for sharp play. However, not everyone is a natural attacking player
  • Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
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  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.
  • *(William Cowper) (1731-1800)
  • *:the morning sharp and clear
  • *(John Keble) (1792-1866)
  • *:in sharpest perils faithful proved
  • Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
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  • (lb) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:in sharp contest of battle
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:A sharp assault already is begun.
  • Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
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  • :(Edward Moxon)
  • Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
  • Synonyms

    * (able to cut easily) keen, razor, razor-sharp * (intelligent) brainy, bright, intelligent, keen, smart, witty * (able to pierce easily) pointed * (having an intense and acrid flavour) acrid, pungent * (sudden and intense) abrupt, acute, stabbing * dishonest, dodgy, illegal, illicit, underhand * (accurate) accurate, exact, keen, precise * (critical) acrimonious, bitter, cutting, harsh, hostile, nasty * chic, elegant, smart, stylish * (observant) acute, alert, keen, observant, sharp-eyed

    Antonyms

    * (able to cut easily) blunt, dull * (intelligent) dim, dim-witted, slow, slow-witted, thick * (able to pierce easily) blunt * (higher than usual by one semitone) flat * flat * (having an intense and acrid flavour) bland, insipid, tasteless * (sudden and intense) dull * above-board, honest, legit, legitimate, reputable * (accurate) inaccurate, imprecise * (critical) complimentary, flattering, friendly, kind, nice * inelegant, scruffy, shabby * (observant) unobservant

    Derived terms

    * not the sharpest knife in the drawer * sharpish * sharply * sharp-witted

    Adverb

    (er)
  • To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You bite so sharp at reasons.
  • (notcomp) Exactly.
  • I'll see you at twelve o'clock sharp .
  • (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
  • I didn't enjoy the concert much because the tenor kept going sharp on the high notes.

    Synonyms

    * (exactly) exactly, on the dot (of time), precisely

    Noun

    (en 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 a semitone higher.
  • The pitch pipe sounded out a perfect F? (F sharp).
    ''Transposition frequently is harder to read because of all the sharps and flats on the staff.
  • (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.
  • The piece was difficult to read after it had been transposed, since in the new key many notes were sharps .
  • (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
  • Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is written in C? minor (C sharp minor.)
  • (usually, in the plural) Something that is sharp.
  • Place sharps in the specially marked red container for safe disposal.
  • A sharp tool or weapon.
  • * Collier
  • If butchers had but the manners to go to sharps , gentlemen would be contented with a rubber at cuffs.
  • (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
  • (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
  • A dishonest person; a cheater.
  • 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.
  • (Charles Kingsley)
  • A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
  • (in the plural) middlings
  • (slang, dated) An expert.
  • A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
  • * 2006 , Iain McIntyre, Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970
  • The Circle was one of the few dances the older sharps frequented; mostly they were to be found in pubs, pool-halls or at the track.

    Derived terms

    * card sharp * double sharp

    See also

    * (music) accidental, flat, natural *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
  • That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song!
  • To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
  • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)

    Anagrams

    * harps 1000 English basic words

    stabby

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • having one or more sharp points
  • * 1935 , The American Legion Monthly , Volume 19, page 54:
  • At any rate there flourished by the curbing, sure enough, a wide and very stabby cactus garden, extending Tartar hospitality.
  • * 1971 , , Marmalade Me , Dutton (1971), page 298:
  • The crowd hates the picadors who deprive the bull of its first energy to fight. The picador is fat. He's got a long pole with a stabby thing on the end. His horse is blinded in cloth. His horse is old on its last legs.
  • * 2010 , , Holding Still for as Long as Possible , House of Anansi Press Inc (2010), ISBN 9780887849640, page 108:
  • Roxy was knitting tiny finger-puppet monsters. The Gem was peppered with balls of wool and potentially stabby knitting needles.
  • (of movement) quick and thrusting
  • * 1921 , , The Invisible Censor , B. W. Huebsch, Inc (1921):
  • By means of a clever arrangement of springs down below that responded to an electric current, the whole mechanism was able to move up and down and backward and forward in short stabby jerks that were supposed to stir up your gizzard in practically the same way as the motion of a horse.
  • * 1968 , , Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer , Dutton (1968), page 44:
  • Because they would be coming any minute now, any second, actually, and the only warning he would get would be the sound of the opening of the outside door and then two pairs of footsteps in the hall, the one sharp and stabby and the other flat, flat as the palm of your hand […]
  • * 1991 , "Walker, Holton Are A Winning Duo", South Florida Sun-Sentinel , 18 September 1991:
  • Neither possesses a serve fast enough to dent a radar gun and their stabby backhands resemble karate chops.
  • (of a feeling) coming on suddenly and acutely felt
  • * 1933 , , One Way Stop to a Panic , R. M. McBride & Company (1933), page 250:
  • She saw a young couple go past, embarrassed and blushing under showers of rice and riotously convoyed by what clearly was an East Side bridal party. This she saw with a quick darting pang — not a pang of envy exactly, nor yet of jealousy; just a sharp, stabby , little sort of pang, that's all.
  • * 1971 , , Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle , University of Washington Press (1969), page 26:
  • I began to develop stabby feelings of guilt. I couldn't speak enough Spanish to compete with the extension people in the office, and I spent most of my time reading old Time magazines. I would think about that eleven cents an hour that I was getting and feel like a real thief.
  • * 2003 , , Still Holding , Simon & Schuster (2003), ISBN 0743243374, page 265:
  • "I feel bad for her!" said Kit, earnestly. Winced and shifted some more—stabby nerve-ending pain out of nowhere, per usual. Pressure in the temples. He could deal but hoped his eye didn't start to twitch; hated that.
  • (of sound) staccato
  • * 1999 , "Mandorico turns from ska to Latin rock", Sarasota Herald-Tribune , 20 August 1999:
  • The guitar player is playing kind of melodic licks, and the horns are stabby , accent parts.
  • * 2006 , Kory Grow, review of Ratatat's album Classics'', ''CMJ New Music Monthly , August 2006:
  • Fuck yeah, Zelda kicks ass! Ratatat re-up with their second set of '80s video game-worthy instrumentals, full of stabby guitars and disco-y synths.
  • * 2009 , , The Vinyl Countdown: The Album from LP to IPod and Back Again , Counterpoint Press (2009), ISBN 9781593762377, page 279:
  • Going solo in 1970, Mayfield's eponymous debut LP featured 'Move On Up', a hit single whose stabby violins and clattering percussion helped to define the palate of funky, seventies soul […]
  • (of a look) penetrating and hostile
  • * 1917 , Sewell Ford, Wilt Thou Torchy , Grosset & Dunlap (1917), Chapter VIII:
  • Her eyes are the stabby kind, worse than long hatpins. Honest, after one glance I felt like I was bein' held up on a fork.
  • * 1918 , Sewell Ford, The House of Torchy , Grosset & Dunlap (1918), Chapter VII, page 98:
  • Then I catches the eye of the stiff-necked dame with the straight nose and the gun-metal hair. No, both eyes, it was; and a cold, suspicious, stabby look is what they shoots my way.
  • * 1974 , Pamela Rogers, The Rare One , T. Nelson (1974), page 54:
  • Toby glittered the tears into hard, stabby looks at his father and Ma.
  • (slang) acting in a violent and/or deranged manner
  • * 1997 , , Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel , Simon & Schuster (1999), ISBN 9780684838465, page 21:
  • If I show the evidence of expanding, she looks at me like she will pop me with her Alfred Hitchcock knife. Is all of this just my expanded imagination? OR WILL YOU FINALLY BELIEVE THE WARNING I AM SAYING ABOUT THE MOTHER. THAT SHE IS GETTING FREAKY IN A STABBY WAY.
  • * 2007 , Will Tuttle, " Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer Beta: Editor Impressions", Team XBox , 23 August 2007:
  • I love it, as it allows me to sprint after an opponent, then stab them in the back when I get close. I gotta say, there are few things more satisfying in this game than cutting a foes throat or burying your blade in their chest. I don't get mad, I get stabby !
  • * 2009 , David Kyle Johnson, Heroes and Philosophy: Buy the Book, Save the World , John Wiley and Sons (2009), ISBN 9780470373385, page 191:
  • Forgetful Hiro can remember everything up to being ten, but nothing since then, including stabbing Sylar at the end of Volume 1. But, of course, "Stabby' Hiro" can remember being ten as well. So Forgetful Hiro can remember Ten-Year-Old Hiro, and so can '''Stabby''' Hiro, but Forgetful Hiro can't remember ' Stabby Hiro.
  • (slang, by analogy) angry or irritated
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  • "GROGtheNailer", title=Re: HH2002: ReAd ThIs 3dO !!! citation
  • * 2003 , "NemeLynx", Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc'' review, ''XBoxAddict.com , 18 March 2003:
  • Some of the tasks can be a little difficult, and thus enjoyable, but all in all they left me feeling depressed and stabby (when you feel like stabbing someone).
  • * 2008 , Jess McGuire, " Nice Work, The Age!", Defamer Australia , 20 November 2008:
  • (And now that I’ve done this, you’ll suddenly begin noticing – if you haven’t already – my evil molesting of grammar and inappropriate use of punctuation, and feel totally stabby whenever I make a really obvious mistake. But I’m not a real journalist! I’m just a small town girl, living in a lonely world!)
  • * 2009 , Mary Elizabeth Williams, " Death to Smiley", Salon , 30 November 2009:
  • Letters and punctuation are nothing but code for our thoughts and ideas. Why then do I feel all stabby when I get a message that ends with three short marks: a colon, a hyphen and a parenthesis?
  • * 2010 , Yukon Jack, "Back to the Daily Grind", Edmonton Sun , 9 January 2010:
  • The alarm clock stung a bit more today. The lineup at the coffee drivethru was longer. You felt a little bit more stabby in the gridlocked traffic.
  • * 2010 , Joe Rybicki, " Music games need to refocus, not reboot", Computer World , 29 January 2010:
  • Publishers, if you're not introducing significant new gameplay features, you shouldn't pretend to be releasing a brand-new game. It makes gamers stabby .
  • * 2010 , Kelsey Wallace, " Rape: Still not an 'official crime,' still making us stabby", Bitch Magazine , 12 April 2010:
  • In the 2007 article, "From the 'Things that make us stabby' files," Bitch editor/creative director Andi Zeisler briefly describes a Howard University student's thwarted attempts at getting a rape kit after visiting two different hospitals (Howard University and George Washington) and getting the D.C. police involved.
  • * 2010 , CJ Lambert, " The Pope, Pedobear and Twitter", 3 News , 20 September 2010:
  • "The Pope Speaks Out Against Atheism", reported a couple of stabby blog links.
    Shock horror! Next thing you'll be telling me that the Pope believes in God. Disgusting behaviour for a religious leader/world leader person (except when the Dalai Llama says it because he's cute like Yoda).