(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.

To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply. / (not comparable) Exactly. / (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.

(music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp. / To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper. / (transitive, obsolete) To sharpen.

Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded. / (colloquial) Intelligent.

(music) simple past tense and past participle of sharp

present participle of sharp

(music) Raised in pitch by half a note. Made into a sharp note.

(music) The raising of the pitch of a note by half a step. / Fraud; trickery; the acts of a sharper.

plural of sharpness

Obsolete spelling of sharp