| sharpen | To make sharp. Specifically: To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw. To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious. "The air . . . Sharpened his visual ray To objects distant far." (Milton) "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill." (Burke) To make more eager; as, to sharpen men's desires. "Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite." (Shak) To make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease. To make biting, sarcastic, or severe. "Sharpen each word." . To render more shrill or piercing. "Inclosures not only preserve sound, but increase and sharpen it." (Bacon) To make more tart or acid; to make sour; as, the rays of the sun sharpen vinegar. To raise, as a sound, by means of a sharp; to apply a sharp to. Origin: See Sharp. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Sharpey | William, Scottish physiologist and histologist, 1802-1880. See: Sharpey's fibres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sharpey's fibres | Bundles of collagenous fibre's that pass into the outer circumferential lamellae of bone or the cementum of teeth. Synonym: Sharpey's fibres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sharpey-Schafer | See: Schafer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sharpling | <zoology> A stickleback. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sharpness | <microscopy> The visual impression of distinctness of detail in a photographic reproduction. (05 Aug 1998) |
| sharpsaw | <zoology> The great titmouse; so called from its harsh call notes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sharptail | <zoology> The pintail duck. The pintail grouse, or prairie chicken. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shave | 1. To cut or pare off from the surface of a body with a razor or other edged instrument; to cut off closely, as with a razor; as, to shave the beard. 2. To make bare or smooth by cutting off closely the surface, or surface covering, of; especially, to remove the hair from with a razor or other sharp instrument; to take off the beard or hair of; as, to shave the face or the crown of the head; he shaved himself. "I'll shave your crown for this." (Shak) "The laborer with the bending scythe is seen Shaving the surface of the waving green." (Gay) 3. To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices. "Plants bruised or shaven in leaf or root." (Bacon) 4. To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing. "Now shaves with level wing the deep." (Milton) 5. To strip; to plunder; to fleece. To shave a note, to buy it at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows. Origin: OE. Shaven, schaven, AS. Scafan, sceafan; akin to D. Schaven, G. Schaben, Icel. Skafa, Sw. Skafva, Dan. Skave, Goth. Scaban, Russ. Kopate to dig, Gr, and probably to L. Scabere to scratch, to scrape. Cf. Scab, Shaft, Shape. 1. A thin slice; a shaving. 2. A cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving. 3. An exorbitant discount on a note. A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular. 4. A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave. 5. The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave. <botany> Shave grass, the scouring rush. See the Note under Equisetum. Shave hook, a tool for scraping metals, consisting of a sharp-edged triangular steel plate attached to a shank and handle. Origin: AS. Scafa, sceafa, a sort of knife. See Shave. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shave biopsy | A biopsy technique performed with a surgical blade or a razor blade; used for lesions that are elevated above the skin level or confined to the epidermis and upper dermis, or to protrusions of lesions from internal sites. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shaver | 1. One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave. 2. One who is close in bargains; a sharper. 3. One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer. "By these shavers the Turks were stripped." (Knolles) 4. A boy; a lad; a little fellow. "These unlucky little shavers." "As I have mentioned at the door to this young shaver, I am on a chase in the name of the king." (Dickens) 5. <mechanics> A tool or machine for shaving. A note shaver, a person who buys notes at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Shaver's disease | A condition due to the occupational inhalation of bauxite fumes emitted during the manufacture of alumina abrasives; characterised by cough, shortness of breath, a combined obstructive and restrictive breathing pattern, and impairment of diffusing capacity. Synonym: Shaver's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shaving cramp | An occupational dystonia affecting the hands and fingers of barbers. Synonym: keirospasm, xyrospasm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shaw | 1. A thicket; a small wood or grove. "Gaillard he was as goldfinch in the shaw." (Chaucer) "The green shaws, the merry green woods." (Howitt) 2. The leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc. Origin: OE. Schawe, schae, thicket, grove, AS. Scaga; akin to Dan. Skov, Sw. Skog, Icel. Skgr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shawl | A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders. India shawl, a kind of rich shawl made in India from the wool of the Cashmere goat. It is woven in pieces, which are sewed together. <zoology> Shawl goat, the Cashmere goat. Origin: Per. & Hind. Shal: cf. F. Chale. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Sharp |
A symbol which raises the pitch of a note one-half step.
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| shape |
a closed figure or form; has a definite interior (inside) and exterior (outside)
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the method of reinforcing successive approximations in the variations of one action to produce a target action; to create a new response that did not previously exist in the person's repertoire; also known as "teaching by reward only."
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a vertical or inclined excavation; usually a mine's main entrance and hoistway leading to the tunnels where the ore was dug.
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the tibia.
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| SHA | filled with shade |
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| SHA | (informal) not as expected |
| SHA | of questionable taste or morality |
| SHA | of businesses and businessmen |
| SHA | the hollow shaft of a feather |
| SHA | a revolving rod that transmits power or motion |
| SHA | a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) |
| SHA | a vertical passage into a mine |
| SHA | upright consisting of the vertical part of a column |
| SHA | a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) |
| SHA | a long pointed rod used as a weapon |
| SHA | obscene terms for penis |