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sharp

In music, a sign that tells a player to raise the pitch of a note by one semitone. It can also describe the inaccurate intonation of players when they are playing higher in pitch than they should be.



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To show his indifference he struck up a violent friendship with a boy called Sharp whom he hated and despised.
she said MORE THAN THREE WORDS; and immediately the iron stove vanished and went away over a mountain of glass and sharp swords.
As Alleyne stooped to raise him, the air seemed to be alive with the sharp zip-zip of the bolts, and he could hear them pattering on the deck like apples at a tree-shaking.
 
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