sharp vs smart

sharp

• Sudden and intense. 

• 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. 

• Steep; precipitous; abrupt. 

• 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. 

• Observant; alert; acute. 

• 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. 

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

• Exactly. 

• In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable. 

• 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. 

smart

• Sudden and intense. 

• Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology). 

• Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable. 

• Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful. 

• Sharp; keen; poignant. 

• Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books. 

• Exhibiting social ability or cleverness. 

• Causing sharp pain; stinging. 

• To cause a smart or sting in. 

• To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil. 

• To hurt or sting. 

• Smart-money. 

• Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction. 

• A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.