sharp vs smooth

sharp

adv
  • Exactly. 

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

  • In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable. 

adj
  • 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. 

  • Sudden and intense. 

  • Observant; alert; acute. 

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. 

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. 

smooth

adv
  • Smoothly. 

adj
  • Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain. 

  • Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent. 

  • Natural; unconstrained. 

  • Not grainy; having an even texture. 

  • Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents. 

  • Involuntary and non-striated. 

  • That factors completely into small prime numbers. 

  • Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough. 

  • Unbroken. 

  • Lacking marked aspiration. 

  • Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated. 

  • Placid, calm. 

  • Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent. 

  • Suave; sophisticated. 

  • Bland; glib. 

verb
  • To make smooth or even. 

  • To make straightforward or easy. 

  • To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur. 

  • To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten. 

  • To calm or palliate. 

  • To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise. 

noun
  • The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure. 

  • Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily. 

  • A domestic animal having a smooth coat. 

  • A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain. 

  • A smoothing action. 

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