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Sharps
[ shahrps ]
noun
- a single-shot, lever-action breechloader rifle patented in the U.S. in 1848 and adopted by the U.S. military in the 1850s.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Sharps1
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Example Sentences
Feather had recorded as a pianist, and although he would never put Oscar Peterson out of business, he knew his sharps and flats.
I shuffle through the sheet music, avoiding tunes in keys with more than two sharps or flats, until I hit on “Old Shanghai.”
We waste untold time and untold millions of dollars on a tedious fixation with blades and sharps.
Beware of the cardroom and the poker sharps who travel on the great liners.
The decoration on the inside of the cover is a boating scene, the keys are of light wood, the sharps being black.
Moreover, the signature of the music as indicated by the sharps or flats changes the whole situation.
But there is a kind of paper—smooth, slippery, insidious—that prompts both the Sharps and the Stubbs to evil ways.
These are represented by the black keys upon the piano and organ and are known as sharps and flats.
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