The difference between Sharp and Square

When used as nouns, sharp means 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, whereas square means a with four sides of equal length and four.

When used as verbs, sharp means to raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp, whereas square means to so as to with or place at a to something else.

When used as adjectives, sharp means able to cut easily, whereas square means shaped like a .

Sharp is also adverb with the meaning: to a point or edge.

check bellow for the other definitions of Sharp and Square

  1. Sharp as an adjective:

    Able to cut easily.

    Examples:

    "I keep my knives sharp so that they don't slip unexpectedly while carving."

  2. Sharp as an adjective (colloquial):

    Intelligent.

    Examples:

    "My nephew is a sharp lad; he can count to 100 in six languages, and he's only five years old."

  3. Sharp as an adjective:

    Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded.

    Examples:

    "Ernest made the pencil too sharp and accidentally stabbed himself with it."

    "a sharp hill;  a face with sharp features"

  4. Sharp as an adjective (music):

    Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol after the name of the note).

  5. Sharp as an adjective (music):

    Higher in pitch than required.

    Examples:

    "The orchestra's third violin several times was sharp about an eighth of a tone."

  6. Sharp as an adjective:

    Having an intense, acrid flavour.

    Examples:

    "Milly couldn't stand sharp cheeses when she was pregnant, because they made her nauseated."

  7. Sharp as an adjective:

    Sudden and intense.

    Examples:

    "A pregnant woman during labor normally experiences a number of sharp contractions."

  8. Sharp as an adjective (colloquial):

    Illegal or dishonest.

    Examples:

    "Michael had a number of sharp ventures that he kept off the books."

  9. Sharp as an adjective (colloquial):

    Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.

    Examples:

    "a sharp dealer;  a sharp customer"

  10. Sharp as an adjective:

    Exact, precise, accurate; keen.

    Examples:

    "You'll need sharp aim to make that shot."

  11. Sharp as an adjective:

    Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.

    Examples:

    "'sharp criticism; When the two rivals met, first there were sharp words, and then a fight broke out."

  12. Sharp as an adjective (colloquial):

    Stylish or attractive.

    Examples:

    "You look so sharp in that tuxedo!"

  13. Sharp as an adjective:

    Observant; alert; acute.

    Examples:

    "Keep a sharp watch on the prisoners. I don't want them to escape!"

  14. Sharp as an adjective:

    Forming a small angle; forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.

    Examples:

    "Drive down Main for three quarters of a mile, then make a sharp right turn onto Pine."

  15. Sharp as an adjective:

    Steep; precipitous; abrupt.

    Examples:

    "a sharp ascent or descent;  a sharp turn or curve"

  16. Sharp as an adjective (mathematics, of a statement):

    Said of as extreme a value as possible.

    Examples:

    "Sure, any planar graph can be five-colored. But that result is not sharp: in fact, any planar graph can be four-colored. ''That'' is sharp: the same can't be said for any lower number."

  17. Sharp as an adjective (chess):

    Tactical; risky.

  18. Sharp as an adjective:

    Piercing; keen; severe; painful.

    Examples:

    "a sharp pain;  the sharp and frosty winter air"

  19. Sharp as an adjective:

    Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.

    Examples:

    "a sharp appetite"

  20. Sharp as an adjective (obsolete):

    Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.

  21. Sharp as an adjective:

    Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.

  22. Sharp as an adjective (phonetics, dated):

    Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.

  1. Sharp as an adverb:

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

    Examples:

    "rfquotek M. Arnold"

  2. Sharp as an adverb (notcomp):

    Exactly.

    Examples:

    "I'll see you at twelve o'clock sharp."

  3. Sharp as an adverb (music):

    In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.

    Examples:

    "I didn't enjoy the concert much because the tenor kept going sharp on the high notes."

  1. Sharp as a noun (music):

    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.

    Examples:

    "The pitch pipe sounded out a perfect F♯ (F sharp)."

    "Transposition frequently is harder to read because of all the sharps and flats on the staff."

  2. Sharp as a noun (music):

    A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.

  3. Sharp as a noun (music):

    A note that is sharp in a particular key.

    Examples:

    "The piece was difficult to read after it had been transposed, since in the new key many notes were sharps."

  4. Sharp as a noun (music):

    The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.

    Examples:

    "Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is written in C♯ minor (C sharp minor.)"

  5. Sharp as a noun (usually, _, in the plural):

    Something that is sharp.

    Examples:

    "Place sharps in the specially marked red container for safe disposal."

  6. Sharp as a noun:

    A sharp tool or weapon.

  7. Sharp as a noun (medicine):

    A hypodermic syringe.

  8. Sharp as a noun (medicine, dated):

    A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.

  9. Sharp as a noun:

    A dishonest person; a cheater.

    Examples:

    "The casino kept in the break room a set of pictures of known sharps for the bouncers to see."

    "This usage is often classified as variant spelling of ''[[shark]]'', and unrelated to the 'pointed' or 'cutting' meanings of ''sharp''."

  10. Sharp as a noun:

    Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Charles Kingsley"

  11. Sharp as a noun:

    A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.

  12. Sharp as a noun (in the plural):

    Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.

  13. Sharp as a noun (slang, dated):

    An expert.

  14. Sharp as a noun:

    A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).

  1. Sharp as a verb (music):

    To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.

    Examples:

    "That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song!"

  2. Sharp as a verb:

    To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek L'Estrange"

  1. Square as a noun (geometry):

    A with four sides of equal length and four ; an ; a .

  2. Square as a noun (metonymically):

    Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form. A in a . A square piece, part, or surface, . The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered. A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert. A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.

    Examples:

    "You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces."

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  3. Square as a noun (figuratively, obsolete):

    An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles. A true measure, standard, or pattern.

  4. Square as a noun:

    An open space often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.

  5. Square as a noun (mathematics):

    The of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.

    Examples:

    "64 is the square of 8."

  6. Square as a noun (military):

    A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.

  7. Square as a noun (1950s slang):

    A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.

    Examples:

    "Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!"

  8. Square as a noun (British):

    The symbol # on a telephone; hash.

    Examples:

    "Enter your account number followed by a square."

  9. Square as a noun (cricket):

    The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.

    Examples:

    "An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square."

  10. Square as a noun (real estate):

    A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.

    Examples:

    "2006: Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square ... — w Macquarie Bank (Australia), press release ''Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared"'', 21 June 2006 [http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/about_macquarie/media_centre/20060621.htm]"

    "2007: The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares of living space plus over 13 squares of decking area on 3 sides and 17 squares of garage and workshop downstairs. — Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania [http://www.yourestate.com.au/property_12753.php]"

  11. Square as a noun (roofing):

    A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.

  12. Square as a noun (academia):

    A mortarboard

  13. Square as a noun (colloquial, US):

    A square meal.

    Examples:

    "Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day."

  14. Square as a noun (archaic):

    Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.

  15. Square as a noun:

    The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.

  16. Square as a noun (astrology):

    The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.

  17. Square as a noun (dated):

    The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.

  18. Square as a noun (slang):

    .

  19. Square as a noun (brewing):

    A vat used for fermentation.

  1. Square as an adjective:

    Shaped like a .

  2. Square as an adjective (nautical):

    Forming a right angle, especially at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.

    Examples:

    "a square corner"

  3. Square as an adjective:

    Of numbers formed by multiplying two equal numbers.

    Examples:

    "9 is a square number."

  4. Square as an adjective:

    Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.

    Examples:

    "'square metre"

    "'square mile"

  5. Square as an adjective:

    Honest; straightforward.

    Examples:

    "square dealing"

  6. Square as an adjective:

    Fair.

    Examples:

    "I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair."

  7. Square as an adjective:

    Even; tied

    Examples:

    "to make or leave the accounts square"

    "The sides were square at the end of the half."

  8. Square as an adjective (slang):

    Socially conventional; boring.

  9. Square as an adjective (cricket):

    In line with the batsman's popping crease.

  10. Square as an adjective:

    Correctly aligned with respect to something else.

  11. Square as an adjective:

    hearty; vigorous

    Examples:

    "It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day."

  12. Square as an adjective:

    Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.

    Examples:

    "a man of a square frame"

  1. Square as a verb (transitive):

    To so as to with or place at a to something else; To place at a right angle to the .

    Examples:

    "The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared."

    "to square the yards"

  2. Square as a verb:

    To resolve or reconcile.

    Examples:

    "John can square this question up for us."

    "These results just don't square."

  3. Square as a verb:

    To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.

    Examples:

    "I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis."

    "to square our actions by the opinions of others"

  4. Square as a verb (transitive, mathematics):

    Of a value, term or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.

  5. Square as a verb (transitive):

    To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.

    Examples:

    "square the circle"

  6. Square as a verb (soccer):

    To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch

  7. Square as a verb (archaic):

    To take opposing sides; to quarrel.

  8. Square as a verb:

    To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.

  9. Square as a verb (obsolete):

    To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.

  10. Square as a verb:

    To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Charles Dickens"

  11. Square as a verb:

    To form with four sides and four right angles.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Edmund Spenser"

  12. Square as a verb:

    To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.

    Examples:

    "to square mason's work"

  13. Square as a verb:

    To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  14. Square as a verb (astrology):

    To hold a quartile position respecting.

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