hard | |
1. adj. (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. | |
2. adj. Resistant to pressure. | |
This bread is so stale and hard, I can barely cut it. | |
3. adj. (of drink or drugs) Strong. | |
4. adj. (of water) High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium. | |
5. adj. (physics, of a ferromagnetic material) Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare sof | |
6. adj. (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. | |
7. adj. Requiring a lot of effort to do or understand. | |
a hard problem | |
8. adj. Demanding a lot of effort to endure. | |
a hard life | |
9. adj. Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal. | |
a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character | |
don't be so hard on yourself | |
10. adj. (dated) Difficult to resist or control; powerful. | |
11. adj. Unquestionable. | |
hard evidence | |
12. adj. (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle. | |
At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left. | |
13. adj. (slang) Sexually aroused. | |
I got so hard watching two hot guys wrestle each other on the beach. | |
14. adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise. | |
15. adj. phonetics, uncomparable | |
16. adj. Plosive. | |
There is a hard c in "clock" and a soft c in "centre". | |
17. adj. Unvoiced | |
Hard k, t, s, ch, as distinguished from soft, g, d, z, j. | |
18. adj. Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized | |
The letter m - ru in Russian is always hard. | |
19. adj. (arts) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment. | |
20. adj. Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition. | |
21. adj. Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading. | |
22. adj. (uncomparable) In the form of a hard copy. | |
We need both a digital archive and a hard archive. | |
23. adv. (manner) With much force or effort. | |
He hit the puck hard up the ice. | |
They worked hard all week. | |
At the intersection, bear hard left. | |
The recession hit them especially hard. | |
Think hard about your choices. | |
24. adv. (manner) With difficulty. | |
His degree was hard earned. | |
The vehicle moves hard. | |
25. adv. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties. | |
26. adv. (manner) Compactly. | |
The lake had finally frozen hard. | |
27. adv. (now archaic) Near, close. | |
28. n. (nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water. | |
29. n. (drugs, colloquial, slang) crack cocaine. | |
30. n. (motorsports) (ellipsis of hard tyre) (A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.) | |