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"SHARPS" is a plural of: sharp. |
Date "SHARPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Environment | Hypodermic needles, syringes (with or without the attached needle), Pasteur pipettes, scalpel blades, blood vials, needles with attached tubing, and culture dishes used in animal or human patient care or treatment, or in medical, research or industrial laboratories. Also included are other types of broken or unbroken glassware that were in contact with infectious agents, such as used slides and cover slips, and unused hypodermic and suture needles, syringes, and scalpel blades. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Obtained from ground cereals; consisting of the finer portions of the skins and of a little flour. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SHARPS |
| English words defined with "SHARPS": key signature ♦ natural, Natural scale ♦ signature. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SHARPS": Accidentals. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Sharps and Flats (1928) The Card Sharps (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sharps Creek entering the Row River. Good view of the riparian area. Credit: D. Huntington. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Australian Hospital 4" by Kat Gruber Commentary: "Sharps container." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "SHARPS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "SHARPS" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 86.67% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SHARPS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sharps | Last name | 170 | 42,119 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Sharps Compliance Corp. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "SHARPS": Sharps Chapel. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SHARPS": sharps-related. | |
Ending with "SHARPS": card-sharps. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "SHARPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | fodermel (middlings, shorts, weatings). (various references) | |
Dutch | grint (gravel, middlings). (various references) | |
French | remoulages (shorts), issues. (various references) | |
German | Feinkleie (middlings). (various references) | |
Greek | σκύβαλα (refuse, trash), πιτουράλευρα (middlings). (various references) | |
Italian | stacciature (middlings), cruschelli (middlings). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arpsshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | farelos (middlings). (various references) | |
Russian | поднимать на полутон (sharping). (various references) | |
Spanish | moyuelos (middlings). (various references) | |
Turkish | ince dikiş iğnesi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SHARPS": sharpshooter, sharpshooters, sharpshooting, sharpshootings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "SHARPS": cardsharps. (additional references) | |
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"SHARPS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scharp, Scharpf, shairp, Shaprt, shar, sharpe, Sharpo, shearp. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SHARPS" (pronounced shÄ"rps) |
| 4 | -Ä" r p s | harps, tarps. |
| 3 | -r p s | corpse, warps. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: harps, hasps, rasps, sharp, spars. | |
-2 letters: asps, haps, harp, hasp, pars, pash, pass, raps, rash, rasp, saps, sash, spar, spas. | |
-3 letters: ars, ash, asp, ass, hap, has, pah, par, pas, rah, rap, ras, sap, sha, spa. | |
-4 letters: ah, ar, as, ha, pa, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: phrases, raspish, scarphs, seraphs, shapers, sherpas. | |
+2 letters: airships, harpists, parishes, pharoses, plashers, reshapes, sharpens, sharpers, sharpest, sharpies, shophars, sparkish, splasher, starship, warships. | |
+3 letters: aphereses, apheresis, aphorises, aphorisms, aphorists, dramshops, earlships, handpress, hardships, hospodars, isographs, misphrase, parashahs, parchesis, parchisis, perhapses, pharisees, phrasings, postcrash, potshards, preshapes, prewashes, prophases, purchases, pushcarts, rephrases, reshapers, rhapsodes, samphires, sapphires, seraphims, sharpness, shipyards, spearfish, splashers, splashier, starships, subgraphs, syrphians, tranships, transship, wardships. | |
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