cardsharp | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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cardsharper | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, sharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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harp | (noun) a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers | - |
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(noun) a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade | - |
(noun) a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole | Synonyms: harmonica, mouth harp, mouth organ |
(verb) come back to | Synonyms: dwell |
(verb) play the harp | - |
harper | (noun) someone who plays the harp | Synonyms: harpist |
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harpist | (noun) someone who plays the harp | Synonyms: harper |
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harpoon | (noun) a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it | - |
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(verb) spear with a harpoon | - |
harpooneer | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooner |
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harpooner | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooneer |
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harpsichord | (noun) a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots | Synonyms: cembalo |
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harpsichordist | (noun) someone who plays the harpsichord | - |
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harpulla | (noun) fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building | Synonyms: Harpullia cupanioides |
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harpullia | (noun) any of various tree of the genus Harpullia | - |
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harpy | (noun) large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America | Synonyms: Harpia harpyja, harpy eagle |
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(noun) any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes | Synonyms: harpy bat, tube-nosed bat, tube-nosed fruit bat |
(noun) a malicious woman with a fierce temper | Synonyms: hellcat, vixen |
sharp | (adjective) having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing | - |
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(adjective) (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone | - |
(adjective) keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point | - |
(adjective) (of something seen or heard) clearly defined | Synonyms: crisp |
(adjective) quick and forceful | - |
(adjective) having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones | Synonyms: shrill |
(adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing |
(adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, acute, needlelike |
(adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: astute, shrewd |
(adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: abrupt, precipitous |
(adjective) very sudden and in great amount or degree | - |
(adjective) harsh | Synonyms: sharp-worded, tart |
(noun) a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point | - |
(noun) a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named | - |
(adverb) changing suddenly in direction and degree | Synonyms: acutely, sharply |
sharpen | (verb) become sharp or sharper | - |
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(verb) make crisp or more crisp and precise | - |
(verb) raise the pitch of (musical notes) | - |
(verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, focus |
(verb) make (one's senses) more acute | Synonyms: heighten |
(verb) give a point to | Synonyms: point, taper |
(verb) make sharp or sharper | - |
(verb) make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper | - |
sharpened | (adjective) having the point made sharp | - |
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(adjective) made sharp or sharper | - |
sharpener | (noun) any implement that is used to make something (an edge or a point) sharper | - |
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sharper | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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sharpie | (noun) a shallow-draft sailboat with a sharp prow, flat bottom, and triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
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(noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpy |
(noun) an alert and energetic person | Synonyms: busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpy |
sharply | (adverb) in an aggressive manner | Synonyms: aggressively |
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(adverb) in a well delineated manner | Synonyms: crisply |
(adverb) changing suddenly in direction and degree | Synonyms: acutely, sharp |
(adverb) very suddenly and to a great degree | Synonyms: precipitously |
sharpness | (noun) harshness of manner | Synonyms: asperity |
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(noun) thinness of edge or fineness of point | Synonyms: keenness |
(noun) a strong odor or taste property | Synonyms: bite, pungency, raciness |
(noun) the quality of being sharp and clear | Synonyms: distinctness |
(noun) the attribute of urgency in tone of voice | Synonyms: edge |
(noun) the quality of being keenly and painfully felt | - |
(noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, keenness |
sharpshoot | (verb) aim and shoot with great precision | Synonyms: snipe |
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sharpshooter | (noun) a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters | - |
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(noun) someone skilled in shooting | Synonyms: crack shot, marksman |
(noun) an athlete noted for accurate aim | - |
sharpy | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie |
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(noun) an alert and energetic person | Synonyms: busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpie |
unsharpened | (adjective) not sharpened | - |
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vibraharp | (noun) a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | Synonyms: vibes, vibraphone |
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