quick vs sharp

quick

adj
  • Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly. 

  • Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent. 

  • Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered. 

  • Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast. 

  • Of water: flowing. 

  • Burning, flammable, fiery. 

  • Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. 

  • productive; not "dead" or barren 

  • Mentally agile, alert, perceptive. 

adv
  • Quickly, in a quick manner. 

  • Answer quickly. 

noun
  • A fast bowler. 

  • Plants used in making a quickset hedge 

  • The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling. 

  • Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails. 

  • Quitchgrass. 

verb
  • To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid. 

sharp

adj
  • Steep; precipitous; abrupt. 

  • Higher in pitch than required. 

  • Intelligent. 

  • Having an intense, acrid flavour. 

  • Offensive, critical, or acrimonious. 

  • Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees. 

  • Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification. 

  • Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded. 

  • Illegal or dishonest. 

  • Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note). 

  • Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd. 

  • Tactical; risky. 

  • Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty. 

  • Said of as extreme a value as possible. 

  • Exact, precise, accurate; keen. 

  • Piercing; keen; severe; painful. 

  • Stylish or attractive. 

  • Sudden and intense. 

  • Observant; alert; acute. 

noun
  • A note that is sharp in a particular key. 

  • Something that is sharp. 

  • A dishonest person; a cheater. 

  • Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings. 

  • A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯. 

  • A sharp tool or weapon. 

  • A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s). 

  • The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic. 

  • Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly. 

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

  • 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. 

  • A hypodermic syringe. 

adv
  • To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply. 

  • Exactly. 

  • In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable. 

verb
  • To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper. 

  • To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp. 

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