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Sharp

Definition: Sharp

Sharp

Adjective

1. (of something seen or heard) clearly defined; "a sharp photographic image"; "the sharp crack of a twig"; "the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot".

2. Ending in a sharp point.

3. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations".

4. Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow".

5. Harsh; "sharp criticism"; "a sharp-worded exchange"; "a tart remark".

6. High-pitched and sharp; "piercing screams"; "a shrill whistle".

7. Extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop".

8. Keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point; "a sharp pain"; "sharp winds".

9. Very penetrating and clear and sharp in operation; "an incisive mind"; "a keen intelligence"; "of sharp and active intellect".

10. : having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing; "a sharp knife"; "a pencil with a sharp point".

11. : sour or bitter in taste.

12. : (music) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "C sharp".

13. : very sudden and in great amount or degree; "a sharp drop in the stock market".

14. : quick and forceful; "a sharp blow".

Adverb

1. Changing suddenly in direction and degree; "the road twists sharply after the light"; "turn sharp left here".

Noun

1. A notation indicating one half step higher than the note named.

2. A long thin sewing needle with a sharp point.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sharp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Sharp \Sharp\, adjective. [Comparative Sharper; superlative Sharpest.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Sharp

DomainDefinition

Computing

Sharp hash. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Food & Agriculture

Term applied to wine which has a sharp or stimulating effect on the palate. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Sharp (Becky). The impersonation of intellect without virtue in Thackeray's Vanity Fair. (See Sedley .)
"Becky Sharp, with a baronet for a brother-in-law and an earl's daughter for a friend, felt the hollowness of human grandeur, and thought she was happier with the Bohemian artists in Soho." - The Express.
Sharp Sharp's the word. Look out, keep your eyes open and your wits about you. When a shopman suspects a customer, he will ask aloud of a brother-shopman if "Mr. Sharp is come in:" and if his suspicion is confirmed, will receive for answer, "No, but he is expected back immediately." (Holten.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

SHARP. Subtle, acute, quick-witted; also a sharper or cheat, in opposition to a flat, dupe, or gull. Sharp's the word and quick's the motion with him; said of any one very attentive to his own interest, and apt to take all advantages. Sharp set; hungry. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: SHARP

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

SHARP (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) are extreme anti-racists who often very violently fight for their beliefs. They are one of the three main classes of Skinheads.it is also a strong power against the enemy.it is also like to protect the nation and proud of their country.they hate to see a pakistan people and people also said that sharp was a anti-paki{pakistan}.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "SHARP."

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Sharp

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In music, sharp means "higher in pitch by a semitone." The note C sharp is shown in musical notation in Figure 1. Under equal temperament, B sharp is the same as C, and E sharp the same as F.

In musical tuning, sharp can also mean "very slightly higher in pitch." If two strings are slightly out of tune, the higher-pitched one is said to be sharp with respect to the other.


Figure 1. The note C sharp on the treble clef.

See also: flat.

The word sharp has other, unrelated uses:

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Sharp County, Arkansas

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Sharp County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of 2000, the population is 17,119. The county seat is Ash Flat.

Sharp County was formed on 18 July 1868 and was named for Ephraim Sharp, a state legislator from the area.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,570 km² (606 mi²). 1,565 km² (604 mi²) of it is land and 5 km² (2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.33% water.

Demographics

As of the census2 of 2000, there are 17,119 people, 7,211 households, and 5,141 families residing in the county. The population density is 11/km² (28/mi²). There are 9,342 housing units at an average density of 6/km² (16/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 97.14% White, 0.49% Black or African American, 0.68% Native American, 0.12% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.16% from other races, and 1.39% from two or more races. 0.98% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 7,211 households out of which 25.80% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.90% are married couples living together, 8.10% have a female householder with no husband present, and 28.70% are non-families. 25.60% of all households are made up of individuals and 14.40% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.34 and the average family size is 2.79.

In the county the population is spread out with 21.90% under the age of 18, 6.30% from 18 to 24, 22.80% from 25 to 44, 25.50% from 45 to 64, and 23.60% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 44 years. For every 100 females there are 92.40 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 90.20 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $25,152, and the median income for a family is $29,691. Males have a median income of $23,329 versus $16,884 for females. The per capita income for the county is $14,143. 18.20% of the population and 13.20% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 25.40% are under the age of 18 and 13.20% are 65 or older.

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Sharp Electronics

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Sharp Corporation is a Japan-based electronics manufacturer, founded in 1912. It takes its name from one of its first inventions, the Ever Sharp propelling pencil.

It introduced the world's first all-transistor desktop calculator in 1964, and the first LCD calculator in 1973. Core technologies are solar panels, audio-visual entertainment equipment, office copiers, LCD displays and Flash memory. Recent products include the ViewCam, the Ultra-Lite notebook PC and the Zaurus personal digital assistant.

Net sales for the year 2001/2 were £9547m. The Corporation employs 57,500 staff, of which nearly half are employed outside Japan. It operates from 64 bases in 30 countries and its products are distributed to 164 countries worldwide.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Sharp

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

Sharp

EnglishStationary high altitude relay platformN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Sharp

Synonyms: abrupt (adj), acerb (adj), acerbic (adj), acuate (adj), acute (adj), astringent (adj), astute (adj), crisp (adj), discriminating (adj), incisive (adj), keen (adj), knifelike (adj), penetrating (adj), penetrative (adj), piercing (adj), precipitous (adj), sharp-worded (adj), shrewd (adj), shrill (adj), tart (adj), sharply (adv). (additional references)
Antonyms: dull (adj), flat (adj), natural (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sharp

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Activity

Quick, prompt, yare, instant, ready, alert, spry, sharp, smart; fast; (swift); quick as a lamplighter, expeditious; awake, broad awake; go-ahead, live wide-awake; (intelligent).

Cunning

Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.

Disapprobation

Satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon; censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical; fastidious; sparing of praise, grudging praise.

Discourtesy

Taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling; Verb: surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen; a; peevish; (irascible).

Feeling

Warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic.

Intelligence Wisdom

Adjective: intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to; (cognizant); clever; (apt); arch; (cunning); pas si bete; acute.

Physical Energy

Adjective: strong, energetic, forcible, active; intense, deep-dyed, severe, keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk.

Physical Sensibility

Acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned.

Pungency

Adjective: pungent, strong; high-, full-flavored; high-tasted, high-seasoned; gamy, sharp, stinging, rough, piquant, racy; biting, mordant; spicy; seasoned. Verb: hot, hot as pepper; peppery, vellicating, escharotic, meracious; acrid, acrimonious, bitter; rough. (sour); unsavory .

Skill

Clever, cute, able, ingenious, felicitous, gifted, talented, endowed; inventive; shrewd, sharp, on the ball; (intelligent); cunning; alive to, up to snuff, not to be caught with chaff; discreet.

Violence

Adjective: violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sharp

Specialty definitions using "sharp": C sharp, CAPTAIN SHARP, Conversation SharpF SharpSharp APL, sharp stone. (references)
Etymologies containing "sharp": Yarwhip. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sharp

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Still sharp. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Well he's got huge sharp, eh, he can leap about, look at the bones (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

Sharp rocks at the bottom (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal)

You're sharp. (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner)

Is your blade as sharp as your tongue (Zorro, the Gay Blade; writing credit: Greg Alt; Hal Dresner)

Lyrics

Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife (I Go To Extremes; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Girls as sharp as her are somethin' rare (Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter; performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

Sharp shooter into breakin’ hearts (Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You); performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Be as sharp as a needle that's twisting your brain (If I Wanted To; performing artist: Melissa Etheridge)

Sharp! Like you pulled me out the pencil sharpener (Danger (Been So Long); performing artist: Mystikal)

Clever

A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head. (references; author: unknown)

Tongue Twisters

Seth's sharp spacesuit shrank. (references; author: unknown)

Six sharp smart sharks. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Becky Sharp (1935)

Sharp Tools (1928)

Broncho Billy and the Card Sharp (1915)

Mrs. Sharp and Miss Flat (1913)

Sharp Practice (1912)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sharp

DomainTitle

References

  • Sharp Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Sharp S/A: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Blunt Force, Sharp Force, & Pattern Injury: Examination, Interpretation, Documentation (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sharp

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Photo Album: Sharp

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Silverstein and Sharp Confer. Credit: NASA.

The Hubble telescope's sharp view of the rapid, spectacular dance of luminescent gases high in ... Credit: NASA.

Sharp hard coral shoreline at low tide. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A sharp mountain peak with cloud formed by orographic lifting of the air. A view from Lynn Canal. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Image #3 of sequence. In sharp contrast, by July 1998, a dramatic recovery had taken place. There is a well-developed cold tongue and a dramatic bloom of phytoplankton along the equator. High chlorophyll concentrations had not previously been observed over such a large area. Credit: Fisheries.

Ensigns Angie Messer and Angie Venturato keep a sharp lookout during a storm in the Gulf of Alaska. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Prickly Pear cacti in sharp focus in foreground with Agua Fria National Monument landscape out of focud in the background. Credit: Chris Tincher.

An arial view of the rangeland. Also, there is a sharp division from the land that is range seeded and where the sage brush starts. Credit: B. Kindschy.

Silverspoon acquired. / William Sharp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The Waiting room. / William Sharp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Sharp
 

"Sharp stones" by Harald Wittmaack
Commentary: "These sharp, but wonderful shaped stones were shot at a beach during my vacation in Croatia."
"Harber" by Laszlo Gaal
Commentary: "I like the photo,specially the colors,the blue and yellow of the ships give a nice "colourfull" picture,small size,but resampled 50 %,so the picture is sharp."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Sharp".

PlayCaption
Sharp pitch.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Sharp

AuthorQuotation

Author Unknown

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

Denis Diderot

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Douglas William Jerrold

The sharp employ the sharp.

John Lyly

Your eyes are so sharp that you cannot only look through a millstone, but clean through the mind.

Ovid

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Senator John Sharp Williams

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

Sir P. Sidney

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

St. Jerome

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Sharp

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

Bruno was too sharp for us.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

She had an undulating, but, oftentimes, a sharp and irregular movement

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The pistol in cocking gave a little clear, sharp sound

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

asked the Tin Woodman. "That is proof that he is sharp," remarked the Lion

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Thy woes will make them sharp and pierce like mine

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

They fell into silence, and the dark came and the stars were sharp and white

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

They climbed high trees, as nimbly as a squirrel, for they had strong extended claws before and behind, terminating in sharp points, and hooked

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sharp

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

What it feels like — sharp, dull, throbbing, steady. (references)

Sharp, C.W., and Rosenberg, N. Inhalant-related disorders. (references)

To help produce a sharp image, the lens must remain clear. (references)

Business

Business competition is usually sharp in Taiwan. (references)

This is a sharp decrease from the annual growth rate of 7-8% in the preceding decade. (references)

Demand for leasing machinery and equipment has gone up, in sharp contract to demand for purchase. (references)

Children

China

An extensive health care delivery system has led to improved child health and a sharp decline in infant mortality rates. (references)

Belarus

However, continued high inflation and the sharp decline in the value of the ruble greatly reduced the real worth of those limited subsidies. (references)

Civil Liberties

Pakistan

The fear of large numbers of new refugees trying to enter the country coupled with absence of legalized asylum framework and the sharp economic competition with host communities led to a more restrictive admissions policy and a deterioration in protection for many refugees. (references)

Economic History

Finland

Prospects took a sharp downturn at the end of 2000, however. (references)

Tunisia

FOOD EXPORTS WERE WEAK, WITH A SHARP DROP IN OLIVE OIL SALES. (references)

Vanuatu

They are volcanic, with sharp mountain peaks, plateaus, and lowlands. (references)

Human Rights

Haiti

Human rights organizations reported a sharp increase of arbitrary arrests among the general population after the attacks. (references)

El Salvador

The Salvadoran Institute for the Protection of Children (ISPM) reported a sharp reduction of gang-related violence in youth corrections centers and an increased ability to implement education and reintegration programs following this change. (references)

Political Economy

RUSSIA

The objective of the CBR's exchange rate policy is to prevent sharp fluctuations. (references)

Political Rights

Maldives

Debate on the floor since the question period was instituted has become increasingly sharp and open. (references)

Malaysia

Nonetheless, government officials often faced sharp questioning in Parliament, although this was not always reported in detail in the mainstream press. (references)

Sri Lanka

In response to sharp criticism about the way that the 1999 vote was conducted, the President appointed a commission staffed by two retired judges to evaluate allegations of electoral fraud. (references)

Trade

Switzerland

Several cantonal banks experienced serious problems during the mid 1990's as a result of sharp declines in the real estate market. (references)

Sweden

Once further standards and security routines for the payment process are in place, a sharp increase in e-commerce trading can be expected. (references)

Guatemala

In early 1994, BANGUAT moved to a dirty float; BANGUAT still intervenes in the foreign exchange market to prevent sharp movements in the exchange rate. (references)

Travel

Qatar

House rents have witnessed a sharp increase (30 percent) in 1996-98, due to strong demand from foreign oil/gas companies. (references)

Thailand

Thailand's economic plunge in 1997 caused a sharp decline in the demand for telecommunications services that included landline telephone, cellular phone, radio communications, paging, and VSAT services . Consequently, planned investments in the expansion of 6 million landline telephones and cellular phones in the radio frequency ranges of 1500 and 1900-megahertz have been deferred . However, the installation of rural public long distance telephone lines and the installation of submarine fiber optic cable were not affected by the economic crisis. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious Dr. Jamrach Holobom: We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration. In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. There are three sexes; males, females and girls. Beauty in women and distinction in men are alike in this: they seem to be the unthinking a kind of credibility. Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both his.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Sharp

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

Keep a sharp eye out for this anti-free-speech dragon to once again rear its ugly head in the form of news editors who don't know news until they see it in the Times.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Sharp

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953The elimination last autumn of overtime work for nearly all Federal employees meant a sharp cut in their incomes.

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961Through the night of their bondage, the unconquerable will of heroes has struck with the swift, sharp thrust of lightning.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Sharp

"Sharp" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 87.36% of the time. "Sharp" is used about 4,063 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)87.36%3,5492,737
Noun (proper)11.16%45412,849
Adverb (general)1.48%6043,597
                    Total100.00%4,063N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Sharp

The following table summarizes the usage of "sharp" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
SharpLast name33,000332
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Sharp

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "sharp".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
BidkarN/ABiblical

Sharp pain

HaruphiteN/ABiblical

Sharp

TyreN/ABiblical

Sharp

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Sharp

CountryNameCountryName
Brazil

Sharp S/A

Japan

Sharp Corporation

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Sharp

Expressions using "sharp": as sharp as a needle as sharp as a razor b sharp be sharp be sharp upon become sharp c sharp double sharp e sharp f sharp g sharp give a sharp reply have sharp ears keep a sharp lookout look sharp make a sharp turn not sharp sharp and clear sharp answer sharp APL sharp as a needle sharp as a razor sharp as a tack sharp attack sharp bend sharp contest Sharp County sharp criticism sharp cut sharp decline sharp edge sharp edged sharp edged gust sharp fall sharp night sharp pain sharp pointed sharp practice sharp practices sharp reproof sharp retort sharp rise sharp shooter sharp tongue sharp tongued sharp turn sharp walk sharp words sharp work shrill sharp sing sharp To brace sharp To brace up sharp To sharp up turn sharp right! visually sharp reproduction with a sharp blow. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "sharp": sharp-beaked, sharp-bladed, sharp-boned, sharp-cornered, sharp-crested, Sharp-cut, sharp-cutting edge, sharp-designed, sharp-draining, sharp-dressed, sharp-eared, sharp-edged, sharp-electrode, sharp-end, sharp-ended, sharp-eye, sharp-eyed, sharp-faced, sharp-fanged, sharp-featured, sharp-fingered, sharp-flat, sharp-focus, sharp-gabled, sharp-ground, sharp-jutting, sharp-knapped, sharp-limbed, sharp-looking, sharp-nosed, sharp-peaked, sharp-pinioned, sharp-pointed, sharp-practising, sharp-pronged, sharp-red, sharp-ribbed, sharp-sand, sharp-set, sharp-shooter, sharp-shooters, sharp-shooting, sharp-shouldered, sharp-sighted, sharp-sightedness, sharp-smelled, sharp-snapped, sharp-suited, sharp-tailed, sharp-tailed grouse, sharp-tasting, sharp-teeth, sharp-tempered, sharp-thorned, sharp-tipped, sharp-toed, sharp-toned, sharp-tongued, sharp-toothed, sharp-winged, Sharp-witted, sharp-witted person, sharp-worded.

Ending with "sharp": knife-sharp, needle-sharp, pin-sharp.

Containing "sharp": be sharp-set, razor-sharp-teeth, short-sharp-shock.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sharp

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sharp

4,274

sharp health care

120

sharp tv

2,024

sharp lcd

120

sharp electronics

840

sharp lcd tv

116

sharp electronic

530

c sharp

115

sharp microwave

486

sharp kevin

112

sharp copier

455

sharp fax

111

sharp camcorder

381

sharp viewcam

107

sharp fax machine

264

sharp usa.com

104

sharp projector

227

sharp printer

103

sharp air conditioner

221

sharp and zaurus

103

sharp television

205

sharp electronics corporation

101

gx10 sharp

185

sharp usa

99

bay inc office sharp sos system tampa

178

sharp product

95

sharp microwave oven

173

sharp hospital

89

sharp appliance

163

mobile phone sharp

86

sharp aquos

159

sharp cash register

82

sharp wizard

146

sharp computer

81

sharp calculator

136

sharp lcd projector

78

sharp corporation

128

sharp organizer

75

sharp vacuum

125

sharp laptop

74
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sharp

Language Translations for "sharp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

presies (exactly). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

saktësisht (according to cocker, exactly, minutely, Pat, precisely, strictly, to the letter), i thekshëm (acute, penetrating, tart), ekzakt (prompt), fiks (fixed, promptly), finok (astute, cagey, crafty, cunning, politic, smart, wily), i acartë (bleak, chill, crisp), i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, virulent, well-built, well-set), i mprehtë (acute, astute, bright, clairvoyant, Clarion, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high, high pitched, incisive, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, quick, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, salt, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant), diez, i thartë (acetous, acid, acidulous, rough, sour, tart), thikë (abrupt, blade, knife, perpendicular, rugged, sharp pain, table knife), i zgjuar (apt, artful, astir, awake, awaken, bright, cagey, cagy, clever, exalted, ingenious, intelligent, nimble, quick, quick-witted, ready-witted, reasonable, responsible, sagacious, sharp-witted, sleepless, smart, wakeful, waking), me majë (peaked, pointed), pikërisht (absolutely, due, exactly, just, precise, precisely, strictly, very, very much so), tamam (due, even, exactly, flat, just, just the same, perfectly, precise, precisely, very), thep (bead, caustic, fidget, jag, viperous), therës (acid, acidly, acrimonious, acute, biting, butcher, caustic, cutting, dry, epigrammatic, executioner, exquisite, incisive, keen, nippy, penetrating, peppery, piercing, poignant, sharp cut, stinging, trenchant), i rrëpirët (bluff, hilly, precipitous, rapid, steep). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تماما (all, all right, alright, altogether, completely, decidedly, diametrically, enough, entirely, exactly, fairly, fully, in full, just, ok, okay, okey, perfectly, plumb, precisely, properly, quite, quite so, right, simply, smack, so far so good, stark, stock, thoroughly, through and through, totally, utterly, very, well, wholly, wide), ‏شحذ (be sharp, edge, grind, hone, quicken, sharpen, sharpening, stone, strop, whet, whetting), ‏رشيق (active, agile, airy, alert, brisk, clever, dapper, facile, fleet, fluent, fluid, graceful, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, merry, nimble, nippy, quick, ready, spry, svelte, swift, willowy, zippy), ‏رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery), ‏ثاقب (acute, boring, hand drill, keen, penetrating, perforator, piercing, sagacious), ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed), ‏إبرة خياطة طويلة حادة الرأس, ‏ذكي (acute, agile, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, cute, dashing, fox, ingenious, intelligent, knowledgeable, luminous, natty, penetrating, quick, sagacious, sharp-witted, smart, wise, witty), ‏صارخ (blatant, crying, flamboyant, fortissimo, garish, gaudy, jarring, loud, lurid, noisy, outrageous, rank, showy, staring, trumpery, violent), ‏صارم (astringent, austere, disciplinary, dour, driving, exact, extreme, fast, firm, hard, hard and fast, hardheaded, inclement, puritan, ramrod, rigid, rigorous, rugged, searching, severe, stark, stern, stiff, strait, strict, stringent, swingeing, tight, tough, unrelenting, violent), ‏ضار (detrimental, felled, ferocious, fierce, hurtful, impish, injurious, malign, malignant, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pest, poisonous, predatory, prejudicial, rabid, rapacious, ravenous, savage, set, truculent, unhealthy, unwholesome, vicious), ‏طرف حاد, ‏علامة الرفع, ‏دقيق (accurate, careful, close, delicate, elaborate, exact, express, farina, fine, flour, inappreciable, infinitesimal, intangible, just, keen, mathematical, meal, nearness, nice, painstaking, particular, pernickety, precise, punctilious, punctual, rigorous, scrupulous, searching, sound, specific, straightforward, strict, ticklish, tiny, touchy, tricky, true, veracious), ‏سن (age, dent, hone, nib, notch, prong, tine, tooth), محدد (fixed), ‏حريف (acrid, cayenne, hot, nippy, piquant, poignant, pungent), ‏حاد (abrupt, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, avid, be sharp, biting, brisk, clear, cutting, exquisite, heavy, incisive, intense, intensified, intensive, keen, loud, nasal, penetrating, petulant, piercing, piquant, pithy, poignant, pointed, prompt, pronounced, pungent, quick, ripe, rough, salty, severe, shrill, squeaky, strident, strong, trenchant), ‏حامض (acid, acidulant, acidulous, sour, tart), ‏واضح (apparent, bold, broad, clear, conspicuous, decided, definite, elucidative, evident, explicit, express, frank, intelligible, legible, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, marked, obvious, outspoken, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plump, pointed, pronounced, punctual, purposely, seeming, specific, transparent, trenchant, visible), ‏وعر (broken, bumpy, hairy, impassable, irregular, jolty, lumpy, malaise, mountainous, precipitous, ragged, rough, rugged, steep, tight), ‏قارص (acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, cutting, mordacious), ‏قارس (chilling, chilly, cutting, frigging, nippy, severe, shrewd), ‏قاطع (boycott, break away, categorical, chip, conclusive, decisive, definite, disruption, disturb, dogmatic, edgy, final, have no truck with, incisive, interrupt, keen, partition, peremptory, positive, unqualified), ‏قاسي (austere, drastic, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, harsh, rough, rugged, severe, slashing, stern, stony, strait, strict, stringent, tough, unyielding), ‏لاذع (acerb, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, burning, caustic, cutting, harsh, hot, keen, mordant, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, snappy, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish), ‏نشيط (active, adroit, alert, athletic, dapper, driving, energetic, forceful, hustler, jaunty, live wire, lively, proud, robust, spirited, sprightly, spry, stout, strenuous, vigorous, vivacious), ‏مبرح (acute, anguish), ‏عنيف (bitter, dragon's, drastic, fell, fierce, gory, heady, impetuous, knockabout, outrageous, passionate, rabid, rigorous, robust, rough, rude, ruthless, scurrilous, set, severe, shrewd, smart, stiff, stout, strenuous, stringent, strong, torricellian, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, vehement, violent, volcanic). (various references)

   

Basque

  

puntuan, puntu (point). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

подострен (sharpened), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), експерт (adept, consultant, expert, judge, master, proficient), енергичен (active, arduous, brisk, demon, driving, energetic, enterprising, firm, go-go, hearty, keen, live, nervous, pithy, pushing, red blooded, robust, smart, snappy, spanking, spicy, spirited, spunky, strong-minded, up and coming, vigorous, vital, youthful, zappy, zippy), елегантен (classy, dashing, debonair, doggy, dressy, elegant, feat, fine, genteel, graceful, jimp, mod, nifty, plush, plushy, posh, rakish, saucy, silk stocking, smart, snappy, stylish, swell, swish, tasty), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, slapdash, slippy, smart, spanking, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed), безскрупулен (conscienceless, ruthless, slim, slippery, slippy, smart, unconscionable, unconscious, unscrupulous), беззвучен (mute, noiseless, soundless, surd, toneless, unvoiced, voiceless), диез (diesis), познавач (adept, cognoscente, connoisseur, expert, fancier, judge, proficient), модерен (advanced, exclusive, fashionable, last, modern, modernistic, modish, neoteric, new, up to date), под остър ъгъл, пея фалшиво, пея високо, парлив (acrid, burning, hot, peppery, stinging), изкусен (adroit, clever, cunning, daedal, expert, light fingered, masterful, mean, neat, proficient, scientific, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, subtle, technic, technical, tricksy, versed, workmanlike), изведнъж (all at once, all of a sudden, at once, promptly, slap, straight away), изострен (overstrung, pointed, tapering), измамник (ambidextrous, bilk, bilker, cheat, counterfeit, deceiver, double-dealer, fake, fiddler, fraud, gyp, impostor, intake, juggler, ringer, rook, sharpy, slicker, swindler), повдигам с полутон, точно (according to cocker, clean, correctly, directly, exactly, expressly, just, justly, narrowly, nicely, on schedule, precise, prompt, right, spang, strictly, textually, true, truly, whang), ясен (articulate, ash, ash-tree, bright, clean-cut, clear, coherent, crystal, distinct, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, matter of course, neat, obvious, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, readable, robust, serene, silver, silvery, Square, straight, straightaway, straightforward, tangible, transparent, unambiguous, unshadowed, vivid), ярко изразен, стипчив (acerb, acerbic, rough), рязък (abrupt, acid, bitter, brief, brusque, curt, gravelly, hard, incisive, jarring, jerky, metallic, offhand, pipy, point blank, rapid, rude, short, short-spoken, shrill, snappish, snappy, snippy, stark, straight out, strident, trenchant), рязко (abruptly, crustily, point blank, sharply, short, shortly), резлив (dry, nippy), хитър (acute, arch, artful, calculating, catty, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, designing, disingenuous, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, long-headed, parlous, patent, pawky, politic, shifty, shrewd, sleek, slim, sly, smart, supple, wary, wide, wily, wordly-wise), фалшиво (falsely), задкулисен (backstage, offstage, underground), тънка игла за шев, много висок (towering), с диез, високо (aloft, aloud, high, highly, loftily, loud, loudly, out), остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant), отсечен (abrupt, curt, hewn, jerky, short, stubbed), отривист (crisp, jerky, snappy), непочтен (discreditable, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, fishy, foul, oblique, shady, twisty, underhand), мошеник (blackguard, cheat, crook, dead beat, deadbeat, dodger, grafter, gyp, hustler, jongleur, knave, palmer, picaroon, rogue, scoundrel, sham, shark, skin, trickster, varlet, wretch), ясно очертан (bold, chiselled, clean-cut, sharp cut, well-marked), фалшив (bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, false, fictitious, hollow, imitative, insincere, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, queer, snide, spurious, supposititious, tinsel). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

agut (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

銳利 (sharply), (among, between, border, boundary, edge, fish-spear, interval, while), (arrowhead), 鋒利 (incisive; to the point), 锋利 (Edgy, sharpness), (blade edge), , (fierce, to arouse, to excite, to incite, to stimulate, violent), (river in Zhejiang), 尖銳 (intense, penetrating, pointed), (point, pointed, shrewd), (advantage, benefit, profit). (various references)

   

Czech

  

rázný (brisk, crisp, energetic, firm, peremptory, powerful), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), prudce (heatedly, keen, strongly, vigorously, violently), podvádìt (betray, deceive, double cross, finagle, juggle, mock, trick), přesnì (accurately, bang, clearly, dead, exactly, faithfully, just, nicely, on the minute, on time, precisely, quite, rightly, straight), přísný (austere, exacting, firm, hard, harsh, heavy, nice, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, tough, uncharitable), ostrý (abrupt, acrid, acute, biting, crisp, ferocious, fierce, glib, hard, harsh, high pitched, hot, incisive, intense, keen, piercing, poignant, pointed, rigorous, shrill, smart, snappy, spicy, strident, tart, tough, trenchant), ostře (keen, sharply), mazaný (artful, cannie, canny, crafty, cunning, nifty, slick, sly), dis, špièatý (peaked, pointed, spiked, spiky). (various references)

   

Danish

  

skarp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

scherp (abrasive, accurate, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, bleak, exactly, harsh, lurid, nutty, precise, sour, tart), guur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, bleak, lurid), fel (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, intense, intensive, lurid), doordringend (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, harsh, lurid, sour, tart). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

precize (exactly, precisely), dieso (grid, hash, number sign, pound sign), akurate (exactly), akra (abrasive, lurid). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

stundisliga (exactly), raðið (exactly), nágreiniliga (exactly), hvassur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid), gjølliga (exactly), akkurát (exactly). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نوک دار (Cuspidate, Headed, Picked), تیزکردن (Grind, Keen, Point, Sharpen, Whet), تیز (Acute, Bitter, Brisk, Caustic, Glassy, Hot, Incisive, Keen, Pike, Poignant, Pointy, Pungent, Shrill, Trenchant), زیرک (Acute, Adroit, Agile, Alert, Astute, Brilliant, Cagey, Canny, Clever, Cunning, Gash, Keen, Perspicacious, Sagacious, Shrewd, Smart, Subtle, Uncanny), زننده (Acrid, Acrimonious, Beater, Garish, Gaunt, Glassy, Harsh, Hideous, Knocker, Loathsome, Lurid, Nasty, Nippy, Pitapat, Poignant, Pungent, Repellent, Repugnant, Repulsive, Squalid, Striker, Tart, Vile). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

terävä (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, keen, lurid). (various references)

   

French

  

piquant (sharpness), coupant, aigu (shrill), tranchant (sharp-cutting edge, sharpness), rude, acéré. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

skerp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid), bitsich (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid). (various references)

   

German

  

scharf (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acridly, acrimonious, acute, biting, bitter, caustic, clear, closely, cool, cracking, cutting, discerning, drastic, ferocious, fierce, fiery, hard, harsh, highly seasoned, horny, hot, incisive, keen, keenly, live, lurid, marked, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, poignant, poignantly, precise, pungent, pungently, quick, Randy, raw, razor-sharp, savage, scathing, scathingly, severe, sexy, sharp-edged, sharply, shrewd, shrill, sibilant, slashing, spanking, strict, strong, tangy, tart, tough, trenchant, twangy, vehement, venomous, virulent), herb (abrasive, acerbic, acetous, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, austere, bitter, cruel, dour, dry, harsh, harshly, lurid, rude, severe, sour, tangy, tart, tartly), grell (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, blazing, dazzling, flashy, garish, garishly, gaudily, gaudy, glaring, harsh, harshly, loud, loudly, lurid, luridly, penetratingly, piercing, raw, showy, shrill, strident, violent). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πικάντικος (spicy), οξυδερκής (acute, discriminating, keen, perceptive), οξύσ (acid, acute, crucial, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated, keen, pang, penetrating, piercing, piked, piping, pointed, pungent, screechy, shrill, smart, trenchant, twang), απατεών (circumventer, circumventor, cozener, crook, deceiver, faker, fraud, hoodwinker, jockey, knave, rook, shammer, shark, shaver, slicker, swindler, tricker, trickster, victimizer, welcher, welsher), αιφνίδιος (sudden), αιχμηρόσ (pointed, spicular, spiculate, spiky), ακριβώσ (every bit, exactly, precisely, very), δίεση, πανούργοσ (arch, artful, astute, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, parlous, pawky, shrewd, sly, slyish, subtile, subtle, vulpine, wily), κοπτερόσ (incisive, keen, trenchant), μυτερός (jagged, pointed), γκανάκι (cannon, Hypodermic needle used for injecting drugs, nail, needle, point, spike), έξυπνοσ (alert, awake, brainy, cagey, cagy, canny, clever, cute, hard-headed, ingenious, intelligent, knowing, parlous, politic, sharp-witted, smart, spiffy), ριμύσ, κοφτερός (sharpish), κοφτερόσ (edgy, incisive, keen, keen on, trenchant), άκερος (cutting). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חד (acute, biting, keen, mordant, pointed). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hegyes (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, edgy, fine, hilly, keen, lurid, mountainous, peaky, poignant, pointed, pointy, rangy, sharp-edged, spiked, spiky, tapering), éles (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, clangorous, crispy, cutting, edgy, harsh, have a keen edge, high pitched, incisive, keen, live, lurid, nipping, nippy, penetrating, perspicacious, plucky, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, reedy, rough, sarky, sharp-edged, shrewd, shrill, slashing, snap, squall, strident, to highlight, trenchant). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

skarpur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid), nákvæmlega (exactly), leiftandi (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid), hrjúfur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid), beittur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

runcing (sharp-pointed), pedih (grieve, smart), dengan mendadak, cucup (a kiss, shuck), cerdik (artful, astute, canny, cunning, sharp-eyed, smart, tricky). (various references)

   

Irish

  

géar (acerbic). (various references)

   

Italian

  

appuntito (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, pointed), aguzzo (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, keen, lurid, peaked, pointed), affilato (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, cutting, edgy, keen, lurid, thin), acuto (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, cute, discerning, discriminating, high, high note, high pitched, incisive, intense, keen, lancinating, lurid, nasty, neat, penetrating, piercing, piping, poignant, pointed, severe, shrewd, shrill), tagliente (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, biting, clipping, cutting, edgy, keen, lurid, nipping, slicing, stridently, trenchant), piccante (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, hot, lurid, nutty, piquant, racy, salty, spicy), aspro (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, bitter, foxy, gruff, harsh, hoarse, lurid, rough, rugged, scathing, smart, sour, stark, tart, uncharitable), nitido (acute, caustic, clear, keen, limpid, perspicuous, well-defined), giusto (all right, correct, correctly, done, equitable, exact, exactly, fair, just, proper, right, righteous, rightful, sound, Square, suitable), giustamente (aright, correctly, exactly, fairly, justly, right, rightly). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

先鋭 (acute, radical), 刺刺しい (harsh, snappy, stinging, thorny), 刺々しい (harsh, snappy, stinging, thorny), 如才 (adroit, affable, clever, skillful, slick, smart, smooth-tongued), ぴくぴく動く (banging shut, closely, exactly, flat, hopping, lively, neatly, properly, skipping, slapping, sound of whistling or wheezing, splashing, splatting, sudden but subtle, suddenly, tightly, to jerk, to twitch, to wiggle, whistling of wind), 俐巧 (bright, clever, intelligent, shrewd, wise), シフト演算機構 (chaconne, chanson, chassis, chemise, Chevrolet, crisp, dish, good time to take a picture, hat, look sharp!, precise, propelling or mechanical pencil, shaggy carpet, shaman, shamanism, shark skin, sharpener, sherbet, Sherlockian, shift arithmetic unit, shining, shirring, shuffle, shuffling, shut, shutdown, shutout, shutter, shy, Siberia, simoon, simulate, simulation, simulator, vehicle with body lowered), いい年をして (being old enough to know better, cool, smart, stylish), 嬰記号 , 嬰音 , 利口 (bright, clever, intelligent, shrewd, wise), 尖鋭 (acute, radical), 険しい (impregnable position, inaccessible place, steep place), 截然たる (clear, distinct), 激痛  (pain intense, violent), 悧巧 (bright, clever, intelligent, shrewd, wise), 急峻 (steep), 犀利 (keen), 鋭い (pointed), 鋭い  (pointed), 鮮鋭 (clear), 辛辣 (acrimonious, bitter), 尖った (pointed). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

するどい (pointed), きゅうしゅん (steep), しんらつ (acrimonious, bitter), さいり (keen), せつぜんたる (clear, distinct), せんえい (acute, clear, radical, signs of a ship), いかす (cool, smart, stylish), りこう (bright, clever, discharge, fulfillment, implementation, intelligent, performance, science and technology, shrewd, wise), シャープ , じょさい (adroit, affable, clever, deacon, skillful, slick, smart, smooth-tongued), ぴったり (exactly, neatly), とがった (pointed), とげとげしい (harsh, snappy, stinging, thorny), えいおん (English pronunciation), えいきごう. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

예리한. (various references)

   

Manx

  

gyere (rigid, rigorous, sour, tart), gibbagh (pointed), geyre (abrupt, acrid, acute, austere, bitter, bold, bold promintary, censorious, cutting, discerning, edged, hard, high-pitched, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick of sight, sour, stiff, strict, stringent, twinging), geyragh (keen, sourish), geayr (acid, acidific, keen, sour), gear (sour, spicy, stale), foyral (incisive, keen, sharp-edged), foyragh (cutting, edged, incisive, keen, mordant, sharp-edged, steely), birranagh (pointed), birragh (pointed, scathing, spiky, tapered), barbagh (rough, rough-mannered, rude, rugged, severe), barb (a sharp point, cruel, drastic, javelin, rough). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

nummertegn (grid, hash, number sign, pound sign), grind (gate, grid, hash, number sign, pound sign), firkant (grid, hash, number sign, pound sign). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arpshay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

ostry (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, severe, strict), dokładnie (exactly). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cortante (acerbic, biting, clear-sighted, clipping, incisive, keen, nipping, nippy, parky, slashing, trenchant), afiado (acerbic, acuminate, clear-sighted, keen), sustenido (grid, hash, number sign, pound sign), picante (acerbic, acrid, biting, home, hot, juicy, mordacious, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, risque, rough, salty, savory, savoury, spicy, stinging, tart), penetrante (acerbic, biting, bitter, clear-sighted, discriminating, incisive, in-depth, keen, penetrating, penetrative, perspicacious, pervasive, piercing, pointed, screaming, screamy, searching, sharply, shooting, shrill, smart, subtil, subtile, subtle), agudo (acerbic, acute, argute, brazen, clear-sighted, incisive, keen, out-and-out, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, poignant, pungent, shrill, smart, treble, trenchant). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

aguda. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

surd (deaf, dull, hidden, hollow, secret, smothered, unvoiced), subit (abrupt, all of a sudden, on a sudden, sudden, suddenly, unexpected, unexpectedly, upon a sudden), sarcastic (acrid, biting, caustic, caustically, cynical, lashing, mordacious, sarcastic, sarcastically, sardonic, satiric, severe, sneering, tart, taunting), ager (active, acute, agile, clever, cute, fast, lively, mercurial, mettlesome, quick, sagacious, shrewd, skilful, skillful, spirited, understanding), cu vioiciune (freshly), crunt (awful, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, cruel, dreadful, horrible, terrible, violent), consoanã surdã (voiceless consonant), brusc (abrupt, abruptly, all at once, bang, bounce, brusque, plop, plump, rash, roughly, rude, sharply, short, shortly, snap, sudden, suddenly, unawares, unexpected, unexpectedly), şmecher (acute, arch, artful, astute, canny, catchy, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, dodger, downy, leery, shaver, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, slyboots, wise guy), şiret (arch, artful, canny, cord, crafty, cunning, fox-like, gimp, guileful, lace, pawkily, pawky, shifty, sly, slyboots, slyly, string, subtle, tricky, wily), ascuţit (acute, argute, biting, clipping, edged, edgy, fast, fine, high, high pitched, keen, keenly, knife-edged, mordacious, peaked, piercing, poignant, pointed, pointedly, pungent, quick, screaming, shrewd, shrill, smart, spiky, stinging, subtle, trenchant, whetted, witty), decis (determined, resolute, resolved, stalwart, strong-minded), aprig (cruel, ferocious, fierce, fiery, grim, hard-hearted, harshly, high-spirited, impetuous, passionate, passionately, severe, truculent, violent), exact (accurate, accurately, by the square, careful, clean-cut, clipping, clockwork, correct, dead, directly, due, even, exact, exactly, faithful, fitting, flat, for all the world, formal, just, just so, narrow, perfect, precise, precisely, proper, punctual, punctually, regular, right, rigorous, scholarly, slick, straight, strict, strictly, that's the idea, to a day, to a hair's breadth, true, truly, you've hit it), acru (acerb, acetous, acid, acidulous, acre, acrid, acrimonious, crabbed, cross, green, peevish, sour, sourly, sulky, surly, tart, testy, touchy, unripe, vinegarish), abrupt (abrupt, abruptly, arduous, bluffy, bold, craggy, desultory, disjointed, harsh, perpendicular, precipitate, precipitous, rapid, steep), abil (adroit, apt, artful, artistic, artistical, astute, clean, clever, competent, crafty, cunning, deep, deft, dexterous, fit, handy, industrious, knowing, natty, qualified, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skilfully, skilled, skillful, skillfully, sly, smart, subtle, swift-handed, versatile), înverşunat (deadly, desperate, fierce, fiery, frenzied, furious, hot, rabid, stubborn), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, ramp, rook, shuffle, swindle, trick, victimize), aprins (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, bright, brilliant, burning, eager, fervent, fiery, glowing, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, passionate, peppery, perfervid, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid), isteţ (adroit, clever, cunning, cute, fast, forward, mercurial, natty, perspicacious, quick-witted, sharp-sighted, smart, spirited), tãios (acid, biting, clipping, curt, cutting, edgy, keen, mordacious, nippy, pointed, roughly, severe, severely, sharply, shortly, spiky, tart, trenchant), tâlhar (brigand, captor, cracksman, footpad, gangster, harrier, highwayman, lurcher, miscreant, robber, rogue, scoundrel, thief), ridica tonul (speak out), pungãşi (Rob), precis (accurate, accurately, certain, clean-cut, clockwork, dead, decided, decisive, definite, definitely, distinct, due, even, exact, exactly, flat, just, literal, narrow, positive, precise, regular, sound, specifically, straight, strict, truly, unambiguous), pãtrunzãtor (acute, astute, clear, clear-sighted, comprehensive, deep, deeply, discerning, harsh, high pitched, in-going, keen, loud, Parky, penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, quick, rich, sagacious, screaming, searching, shrewd, shrill, strident, subtle, thrilling, touching), energic (a live wire, active, alive, brisk, buoyant, dapper, drastic, dynamic, emphatic, energetic, energetically, forcible, full of beans, humming, iron, keen, lively, living, managing, mightily, peppy, peremptory, pushful, pushing, snappy, stout, stoutly, strenuous, strong, strong-minded, trenchant, virile), iute (agile, alert, alive, brisk, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hot, hot tempered, lively, mercurial, merry, nippy, peppered, peppery, piquant, pungent, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rattling, spanking, speedy, spirited, steep, strong, swift, swiftly, trippingly, violent, warm), înţepãtor (biting, cutting, piquant, prickly, pungent, stinging, strong), ironic (ironic, ironical, ironically, quizzical, severe), inteligent (apprehensive, argute, brainy, bright, clever, comprehensive, cute, intelligent, keen, lively, luminous, neat, nimbly, politic, sagacious, sage, sharp-witted, smart, understanding), fix (certain, clipping, constant, definite, exact, firm, fixed, fixedly, immovable, invariable, permanent, set, stable, staid, standing, staring, stationary, steady, sure, unalterable, unchangeable), fin (beautiful, choice, delicate, delicately, discriminating, excellent, fine, fine-drawn, finely, fine-spun, godchild, godson, gossamer, graceful, keen, nice, penetrating, quick, refined, select, shrewd, slender, soft, spidery, subtile, subtly, tenuous), fãrã scrupul, violent (acute, bad, boisterous, desperate, fiercely, furious, heady, heavy, high, high-spirited, impetuous, raging, rampageous, rampant, rankly, robust, rough, rowdy, rude, rugged, severe, splitting, strong, sudden, towering, truculent, ungovernable, vehement, violent, virulent, wanton), escroc (bilk, biter, blackguard, blackleg, carpet bagger, charlatan, cheat, crook, desperado, double-dealer, duffer, faker, fraud, gambler, gamester, gouge, gyp, impostor, jockey, juggler, knave, mountebank, rogue, rook, scab, shark, sharper, snap, swindler), mut (dumb, inarticulate, mute, mutely, silent, silently, speechless, voiceless). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ровно (even, evenly, exactly, flat, level, smooth), резкий (abrupt, acrid, acute, bitter, bluffy, brusque, crusty, curt, harsh, incisive, jarring, keen, loud, pipy, rough, rude, screechy, short, shrewd, strident, tart), чуткий (responsive, understanding), точно острый, точно (according to cocker, accurately, definitely, exactly, expressly, just, on schedule, precisely, promptly, sharply, to a dot, to a nicety, to the letter, transparently, truly), крутой (abrupt, arduous, craggy, hard boiled, precipitatous, precipitous, rapid, steep), острый (acrid, acute, argute, arrowy, biting, bristling, eager, edgy, hot, incisive, keen, lancinating, nice, peppery, poignant, pointed, punchy, pungent, quick, quinsy, racy, smart, tangy, trenchant, zappy), остроумный (brainy, cute, facetious, ingenious, quick-witted, sharp-witted, smart, snip-snap, witty), отчетливый (discriminate, discriminative, distinct, distinctive, sharp cut, well-marked), пронзительный (acute, argute, keen, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piping, pipy, reedy, shrill, shrilly), диез. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

geur (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, bitter, lurid, sharp pointed, shrewd; acrid). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zaoštren (arrow-headed), prepreden (artful, cagey, cagy, cunning, guileful, politic, shrewd, slick, sly, smart, subtle, tricksy, tricky, vulpine), pomodan (faddy, fashionable, modish, smart, snappy, stylish, trendy), opor (austere, pungent, sec, tart), oštrouman (apprehensive, clever, perspicacious, quick-witted, sharp-sighted, sharp-witted), oštar (acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, argute, austere, biting, brisk, brusque, cutting, keen, piercing, racy, scathing, sharp cut, strident, strong, trenchant, twang), jedak (acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, bitter, caustic, scathing, sour, vitriolic). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

agudo (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, high, lurid, penetrating, piping, poignant, quick, quick-witted, raging, ready, searing, severe, sharp-witted, shrill), afilado (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, grinding, hone, keen, lurid, setting, sharp-edged, sharpening, sharply-edged, whetting), sostenido (buoyant, buoyed up, sustained), justamente (aright, exactly, fairly, just, justly), acre (acre, acrid, acute, caustic, gruff, keen, mordant, pungent, sour). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

srapu (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharpen). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

-kali (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, hot, lurid), kali (abrasive, hot, lurid). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skarp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acuate, acute, bitter, caustic, cutting, discriminative, discriminatory, edgy, emphatic, fulminant, glaring, hot, in focus, incisive, keen, lurid, penetrating, perceptive, pungent, quick, salty, scathing, severe, slashing, smart), amper (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, pungent), vass (cutting, edgy, incisive, keen, mordant, reed, reedy), tvär (abrupt, blunt, brusque, gnarled, gnarly, refractory, square, steep, sudden, sullen). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

matúlis (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid), matálas (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid). (various references)

   

Tahitian

  

ti'a (alright). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), seri (battery, chain, crash, cycle, fast, fleet, high speed, quick, rapid, sequence, serial, seriate, series, set, speedy), sertçe (hardly, keenly, rough, strongly, subacid), sivri (acute, beaked, edged, jagged, nipping, pointed, pungent, sharp pointed, spinose, spinous, spired, spiry), sek (dry, neat, sec, straight), göze çarpan (arresting, bold, broad, conspicuous, crying, demonstrative, noticeable, ostensible, outstanding, prominent, remarkable, salient, signal, staring, visible), eli çabuk (adroit, dexterous, dextrous, expeditious, fast, nimble-fingered, swift, swift-handed), ekşi (hard, sour, sourish, tart), dolandırıcı (adventurer, bilker, carpet bagger, cheat, cheater, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, crook, crooked, deceitful, double-dealer, faker, fakir, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, grifter, gyp, hustler, impostor, knave, lurcher, rogue, sham, shark, spieler, swindler, Twicer), diyez nota, diyez (diesis), dikkatlice (attentively, carefully, cautiously, well), dakikası dakikasına (bang on time, on the dot, on the tick, on tick, to the tick, to the very minute), birden (all of a sudden, at a stroke, at once, at one heat, instantaneous, per saltum, plump, pop, short, slap, slap bang, snap, suddenly), aniden (abruptly, all at once, all of a sudden, at a stroke, at once, Bob, in a flash, on a sudden, out of clear sky, short, slap, slap bang, suddenly), üçkâğıtçılık yapmak (humbug, play a trick), kaba kepek, açıkgöz (alert, astute, canny, cunning, fly, heady, hip, knowing, leery, nimble, open-eyed, shrewd, smart, spry, up and coming, vigilant, wide awake), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty), bariz (apparent, as plain as a pikestaff, avowed, blatant, blazing, conspicuous, conspicuously, gross, pronounced), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), şiddetle (amain, drastically, faithfully, forcibly, heavily, heavy, hot, keenly, lustily, roundly, severely, sore, sorely, strenuously, strong, strongly, violently), şık (alternative, chic, choice, classy, dandyish, dapper, dashing, doggy, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flash, go-go, in the ton, jaunty, mod, nifty, posh, rakish, saucy, sleek, smart, smooth, smug, snappy, snazzy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, sporty, streamlined, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, thoroughbred, tidy, tonish, trig, up-market), coşkun (ardent, boiling over, ebullient, effervescent, elated, exalted, exuberant, fervent, frenzied, impetuous, overflowing, rhapsodic, rhapsodical), net (clear, just, net, plain), zarif (canny, classy, clever, courtly, dainty, Dandy, dandyish, dinky, dressy, elegant, go-go, graceful, gracious, natty, neat, pretty, pulchritudinous, recherche, stylish, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy), yarım ton inceltilmiş ses, yarım ton ince olarak, uyanık (alert, argus-eyed, astir, awake, aware, canny, conscious, enterprising, fly, guarded, heady, leery, nimble, on the alert, open-eyed, shrewd, sleepless, smart, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake, with it), tizleştirmek, tiz (clear, high pitched, high-toned, shrill, strident), tez canlı (fast, impatient, impetuous, restless, swift), hileli (dishonest, false, fraudulent, tortuous, trick, trickish, tricksy, tricky, twisty, unfair), oyunda hile yapmak, hile yapmak (cheat, chicane, clip, cog, finagle, gerrymander, load the dice, manipulate, play a trick, practice a deceit, practise a deceit, renege, rig, rook, swindle), kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), kibar (aristocratic, aristocratical, attentive, blancmange, bland, chivalrous, civil, civilized, courteous, courtly, distingue, Douce, elegant, exquisite, fashionable, gallant, genteel, gentle, kid glove, mild, nice, parliamentary, polished, polite, refined, urbane, well born, well disposed, well mannered), keskin (acrid, acute, biting, bitter, blazing, chiseled, chiselled, cutting, dead, deep, edged, exquisite, incisive, keen, keen-edged, mordacious, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, searching, severe, sharp cut, sharp-edged, sharp-set, smart, sour, spiky, splitting, stinging, strong, tart, trenchant), kesici (cutter, cutting, incisive, nipper, nipping), zeki (apt, as fresh as paint, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clear, clever, cute, discerning, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, keen, keen-witted, longheaded, luminous, neat, nifty, nimble-witted, penetrating, penetrative, perceptional, perspicacious, quick of comprehension, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, sapient, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, sparkling, spiritual, subtile, subtle, understanding), ince (attenuate, attic, brittle, civilized, courteous, dainty, delicate, fine, fragile, graceful, gracile, gracious, keen, lean, nice, polite, precision, refined, scarious, slender, slim, subtile, subtle, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, tenuous, thin, trickish, tricksy, tricky, urbane, vaporous), çabuk (apace, be quick, come, come on, early, expeditious, fast, hasty, hurry, hurry up, in double time, in good time, light footed, lissom, lissome, nimble, precipitous, presto, prompt, pronto, quick, quick-action, quickly, rapid, ready, snappy, soon, speedy, swift, swiftly), tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

synзy (alert, shrewd), яiti (penetrating, poignant), цtgьr, kesgir, зapgyn (biting, piercing). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сильний (acute, athletic, bad, bitter, bull, cordial, deep, driving, nervous, nervy, penetrating, potent, powerful, punchy, quick, smart, spanking, strong, swingeing, vehement, vigorous), точно (accurately, cold, dead, definitely, due, exactly, explicitly, fair, faithfully, flush, just, microscopically, minutely, precisely, prompt, punctually, to a turn, true, truly), шахраювати (cheat, cog, cozen, dodge, fake, gyp, humbug, play foul, poach, rogue), шахрай (beat, bilker, charlatan, cheat, deceiver, doer, gambler, jockey, knave, phony, picaroon, prick, racketeer, rascal, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, shark, sharper, swindler), круто (abruptly, boldly), крутий (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bluffy, craggy, rapid, steep), гострити (hone, sharpen, whet), гострий (abrupt, acrid, acrimonious, acute, argute, bad, barbed, biting, eager, edgy, incisive, keen, nimble, nutty, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, savoury, splitting, subtile, subtle, trenchant, zestful), виразний (appellative, apt, articulate, audible, bold, clear, concise, eloquent, emphatic, emphatical, expressional, expressive, impressive, legible, meaningful, nervous, orotund, pronounced, pure, speaking, talking), знавець (adept, cognoscenti, connoisseur, dabster, expert, proficient, whale), діез, дотепний (attic, brainy, cute, dodgy, facetious, ingenious, jocular, nimble, nimble-witted, quick-witted, sharp-witted, spiritual, waggish, witty). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sắt, sắc nhọn đúng thình lình, sắc nét thình lình, sắc cạnh (dry), thính (delicate, exquisite), thông minh láu lỉnh, rõ rệt (distinctly, evident, fairly, pronounced, transparent, unequivocal, visibly), nhọn (pointed, sharp-edged, taper), ma mảnh, hạt tấm, bất chính nhanh, bảnh (chic, knowing, slap-up, spiffy, tony), bén rõ ràng, độc địa (virulent). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

tost (acute, austere, bitter, ill, severe, sick, sore), miniog (cutting, keen), llym (acute, austere, keen, severe), ffel (cunning, sly), egr (cheeky, savage, severe, sour), cyfallwy (adequate, perfect), chwerw (acrid, acrimonious, bitter, severe), blaenllym (keen), awchus (ardent, eager, greedy, keen), awchlym (acute, keen). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

yeh (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sharp

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

oxys. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

acer, acer, acris, acidus, actus, alacer, aspera, asperam, asperas, asperum, silex, silex silicis (med. cilicis). (various references)

Old English450-1100

teart. (various references)

Old French900-1400

trenchant. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Sharp

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 12, Verse 16
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintAfrwn auqhmeron exaggellei orghn autou kruptei de thn eautou atimian panourgoV
Latin405VulgateFatuus statim indicat iram suam qui autem dissimulat iniuriam callidus est
Middle English1395WyclifThe fool shewith anoon his wrathe; who forsothe dissymulith wrongus, is fel.
Jacobean English1611King JamesA fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
Victorian English1833WebsterA fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
Basic English1964OgdenA foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Sharp

LanguageProverbs Chapter 12, Verse 16
Cebuano¶ Ang kasuko sa usa ka buang mahibaloan dayon sa dayag; Apan ang usa ka mabinantayong tawo nagabaton ug kaulaw.
CroatianLuðak odmah odaje svoj bijes, a pametan pokriva sramotu.
DanishEn Dåre giver straks sin Krænkelse Luft, den kloge spottes og lader som intet.
DutchDe toorn des dwazen wordt ten zelven dage bekend; maar die kloekzinnig is, bedekt de schande.
FinnishHullun suuttumus tulee kohta ilmi, mutta mielevä peittää kärsimänsä häpeän.
FrenchL`insensé laisse voir à l`instant sa colère, Mais celui qui cache un outrage est un homme prudent.
GermanEin Narr zeigt seinen Zorn alsbald; aber wer die Schmach birgt, ist klug.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariKalau orang bodoh tersinggung, saat itu juga ia menyatakan sakit hatinya; tapi orang bijaksana tidak peduli bila dicela.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaBahwa amarah orang bodoh itu nyatalah pada sebentar juga, tetapi orang yang bijaksana itu, menudungi malu.
ItalianLo stolto manifesta subito la sua collera, l'accorto dissimula l'offesa.
Maori¶ Ko te kuware, e mohiotia wawetia ana tona riri: e hipokina ana ia te whakama e te tangata ngarahu tupato.
NorwegianDårens vrede blir kjent samme dag, men den som skjuler krenkelser, er klok.
PortugueseA ira do insensato logo se revela; mas o prudente encobre a afronta.   
RumanianNebunul kndatq kwi dq pe fayq mknia, dar knyeleptul ascunde ocara. -
Russianх ЗМХРПЗП ФПФЮБУ ЦЕ ЧЩЛБЦЕФУС ЗОЕЧ ЕЗП, Б ВМБЗПТБЪХНОЩК УЛТЩЧБЕФ ПУЛПТВМЕОЙЕ.
SpanishEl insensato al instante da a conocer su ira, pero el que disimula la afrenta es prudente.
SwedishDen oförnuftiges förtörnelse bliver kunnig samma dag, men den som är klok, han döljer sin skam

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sharp

Derivations

Words beginning with "sharp": sharped, sharpen, sharpened, sharpener, sharpeners, sharpening, sharpens, sharper, sharpers, sharpest, sharpie, sharpies, sharping, sharply, sharpness, sharpnesses, sharps, sharpshooter, sharpshooters, sharpshooting, sharpshootings, sharpy. (additional references)

Words ending with "sharp": cardsharp, supersharp, ultrasharp, unsharp. (additional references)

Words containing "sharp": cardsharper, cardsharpers, cardsharps. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sharp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Oshap, Sahr, sahsru, sarp, Sarpi, scharp, Scharpf, Schaup, Shahr, shairp, shamp, shap, Shaprt, shapt, Sharapov, sharc, sharf, sharg, sharm, sharn, sharo, sharpe, Sharpo, shart, Sharu, shary, shauri, shearp, shirb, shirnp, shra, skarp, snarp, starp, swarp, tharp. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sharp"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sharp" (pronounced shÄ"rp)
3-Ä" r pcarp, harp, scarp, tarp.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sharp

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: harps.

Words within the letters "a-h-p-r-s"

-1 letter: haps, harp, hasp, pars, pash, raps, rash, rasp, spar.

-2 letters: ars, ash, asp, hap, has, pah, par, pas, rah, rap, ras, sap, sha, spa.

-3 letters: ah, ar, as, ha, pa, sh.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: graphs, parish, pharos, phrase, prahus, ralphs, raphes, raphis, scarph, seraph, shaper, sharps, sharpy, sherpa.

 

+2 letters: airship, barhops, carhops, coprahs, eparchs, hampers, harpers, harpies, harpins, harpist, orphans, paraphs, parches, pardahs, pariahs, perhaps, phrasal, phrased, phrases, plasher, prewash, purdahs, raphias, raspish, reshape, rhaphes, rupiahs, scarphs, seraphs, shapers, sharped, sharpen, sharper, sharpie, sharply, sherpas, shophar, spheral, tephras, threaps, unsharp, warship.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Frequency
17. Names: Derived from
18. Names: Company Usage
19. Expressions
20. Expressions: Internet
21. Translations: Modern
22. Translations: Ancient
23. Bible Trace
24. Abbreviations
25. Acronyms
26. Derivations
27. Rhymes
28. Anagrams
29. Bibliography


  

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