sharp

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ʃɑːp/

Noun

plural-normally dated in-plural slang

(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.

Japanese Meaning

音楽用語としての「sharp」は、譜面上で♯記号を指し、キー署名においては音名の後ろに、個別の音符に対してはその前に置かれ、該当する音を半音上げることを示す記号です。

What is this buttons?

The pianist hesitated when he saw a sharp on the E, then adjusted his fingering to raise the pitch.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

ピアニストはEの横に嬰記号（♯）を見つけてためらい、その音を半音上げるために指使いを調整した。

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Sense（1）

(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).

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(music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.

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(music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.

Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is written in C♯ minor (C sharp minor.)

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(medicine) A hypodermic syringe.

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(medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.

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A sharp tool or weapon.

Sense（8）

A dishonest person; a cheater.

The billiard sharp whom anyone catches / His doom's extremely hard— …

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Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.

here are good fish to be picked out of sharps and stop-holes into the water-tables

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Sense（10）

A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.

Sense（11）

(in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.

While he worked he talked to his ducks, who were waddling about hopefully, as it was almost time for the red bucket to be filled with sharps and potato-peelings.

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