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Spelling: [shahrps]

IPA: /ʃɑrps/

Sharps is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in Sharps (ahprss).

Definitions for Sharps

noun

1. a single-shot, lever-action breechloader rifle patented in the U.S. in 1848 and adopted by the U.S. military in the 1850s.
2. something sharp.
3. Usually, sharps. a medium-length needle with a rounded eye and a sharp point, used for all-purpose hand sewing.
4. a sharper.
5. Informal. an expert.
6. Music. a tone one chromatic half step above a given tone. (in musical notation) the symbol ♯ indicating this.

adverb

1. keenly or acutely.
2. abruptly or suddenly:
3. punctually:
4. vigilantly:
5. briskly; quickly.
6. Music. above the true pitch:

adjective

1. having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing:
2. terminating in an edge or point; not blunt or rounded:
3. involving a sudden or abrupt change in direction or course:
4. abrupt, as an ascent:
5. consisting of angular lines and pointed forms or of thin, long features:
6. clearly defined; distinct:
7. distinct or marked, as a contrast:
8. pungent or biting in taste:
9. piercing or shrill in sound:
10. keenly cold, as weather:
11. felt acutely; intense; distressing:
12. merciless, caustic, or harsh:
13. fierce or violent:
14. keen or eager:
15. quick, brisk, or spirited.
16. alert or vigilant:
17. mentally acute:
18. extremely sensitive or responsive; keen:
19. shrewd or astute:
20. shrewd to the point of dishonesty:
21. Music. (of a tone) raised a chromatic half step in pitch: above an intended pitch, as a note; too high (opposed to flat1 (def 26b.)).
22. Informal. very stylish:
23. Radio, Electronics. of, relating to, or responsive to a very narrow range of frequencies. Compare broadband.
24. Phonetics. fortis; voiceless.
25. composed of hard, angular grains, as sand.

verb (used with object)

1. Music. to raise in pitch, especially by one chromatic half step.

verb (used without object)

1. to sound above the true pitch.

Origin of Sharps

after Christian Sharps (1811-74), U.S. gunsmith, who invented it

Examples for Sharps

Feather had recorded as a pianist, and although he would never put Oscar Peterson out of business, he knew his Sharps and flats.

You know if it were not for the flats, how could the Sharps live?

We waste untold time and untold millions of dollars on a tedious fixation with blades and Sharps.

One accustomed to the Sharps of the legal profession can do this sort of thing.

The members are all armed with the Springfield and Sharps army carbine.

Our three were at the time "Sharps," "Upcutts," and "Bakers."

It concerns the magistrate to defend the flats; to punish the Sharps.

Itll come handy to back up my Sharps in a case of quick work.

I shuffle through the sheet music, avoiding tunes in keys with more than two Sharps or flats, until I hit on “Old Shanghai.”

The big Sharps boomed; the saddles emptied to their booming.