Что (кто) такое hard - определение
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Hardness (disambiguation); Hard (disambiguation); Hard (album); HARD
Hard
·adv Close or near.
II. Hard ·adv So as to raise difficulties.
III. Hard ·adv Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.
IV. Hard ·noun A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
V. Hard ·adv With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
VI. Hard ·superl Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
VIII. Hard ·superl Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
IX. Hard ·adv With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
X. Hard ·superl Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
XI. Hard ·superl Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
XII. Hard ·superl Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
XIII. Hard ·superl Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
XIV. Hard ·superl Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
XV. Hard ·superl Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
XVI. Hard ·superl Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
XVII. Hard ·adv With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
XVIII. Hard ·superl Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact;
- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.
XIX. Hard ·superl Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.
XX. Hard ·superl Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another;
- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, ·etc.
hard
I. a.
1.
Firm, solid, compact, impenetrable, unyielding, rigid.
2.
Difficult, embarrassing, perplexing, puzzling, knotty, intricate, understood with difficulty.
3.
Laborious, arduous, toilsome, fatiguing, wearying.
4.
Unfeeling, unkind, insensible, unsusceptible, cruel, oppressive, rigorous, exacting, severe, unyielding, inflexible, callous, obdurate, hard-hearted, unfeeling, unsympathetic.
5.
Grievous, distressing, calamitous, painful, disagreeable, unpleasant.
6.
Inclement, stormy, tempestuous, cold, severe.
7.
Harsh, rough, sour, acid.
8.
Coarse, unpalatable.
9.
Unfavorable, unprosperous, unpropitious.
10.
Stiff, constrained, forced, unnatural, ungraceful, rigid.
11.
Excessive, intemperate.
II. ad.
1.
Close, near.
2.
Laboriously, diligently, earnestly, incessantly, energetically.
3.
With difficult, not easily.
4.
Distressfully, painfully, severely, rigorously.
5.
Vehemently, forcibly, violently.
hard
(harder, hardest)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Something that is hard is very firm and stiff to touch and is not easily bent, cut, or broken.
He shuffled his feet on the hard wooden floor...
Something cold and hard pressed into the back of his neck.
? soft
ADJ
• hardness
He felt the hardness of the iron railing press against his spine.
N-UNCOUNT: oft with poss
2.
Something that is hard is very difficult to do or deal with.
It's hard to tell what effect this latest move will have...
Our traveller's behaviour on the journey is hard to explain...
That's a very hard question.
= difficult
? easy
ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ to-inf, ADJ to-inf
3.
If you work hard doing something, you are very active or work intensely, with a lot of effort.
I'll work hard. I don't want to let him down...
Am I trying too hard?
ADV: ADV after v
•
Hard is also an adjective.
I admired him as a true scientist and hard worker.
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
Hard work involves a lot of activity and effort.
Coping with three babies is very hard work...
Their work is hard and unglamorous, and most people would find it boring.
ADJ
5.
If you look, listen, or think hard, you do it carefully and with a great deal of attention.
You had to listen hard to hear the old man breathe...
ADV: ADV after v
•
Hard is also an adjective.
It might be worth taking a long hard look at your frustrations and resentments.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
6.
If you strike or take hold of something hard, you strike or take hold of it with a lot of force.
I kicked a dustbin very hard and broke my toe.
ADV: ADV after v
•
Hard is also an adjective.
He gave her a hard push which toppled her backwards into an armchair.
ADJ: ADJ n
7.
You can use hard to indicate that something happens intensely and for a long time.
I've never seen Terry laugh so hard...
It was snowing hard by then.
ADV: ADV after v
8.
If a person or their expression is hard, they show no kindness or sympathy.
His father was a hard man...
? gentle
ADJ: usu ADJ n
9.
If you are hard on someone, you treat them severely or unkindly.
Don't be so hard on him.
? soft
ADJ: v-link ADJ on n
•
Hard is also an adverb.
He said the security forces would continue to crack down hard on the protestors.
ADV: ADV after v
10.
If you say that something is hard on a person or thing, you mean it affects them in a way that is likely to cause them damage or suffering.
The grey light was hard on the eyes...
These last four years have been hard on them.
ADJ: v-link ADJ on n
11.
If you have a hard life or a hard period of time, your life or that period is difficult and unpleasant for you.
It had been a hard life for her...
Those were hard times.
= tough
ADJ
• hardness
In America, people don't normally admit to the hardness of life.
N-UNCOUNT: N of n
12.
Hard evidence or facts are definitely true and do not need to be questioned.
There are probably fewer hard facts about the life of Henry Purcell than that of any other great composer since the Renaissance.
ADJ: ADJ n
13.
Hard water contains a lot of calcium compounds that stop soap making bubbles and sometimes appear as a deposit in kettles and baths.
? soft
ADJ
14.
Hard drugs are very strong illegal drugs such as heroin or cocaine.
? soft
ADJ: ADJ n
15.
If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly. (BRIT)
The hall porter was feeling hard done by at having to extend his shift.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
16.
If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
The talks had been hard going at the start.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR
17.
To be hard hit by something means to be affected very severely by it.
California's been particularly hard hit by the recession.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR
18.
If someone plays hard to get, they pretend not to be interested in another person or in what someone is trying to persuade them to do.
I wanted her and she was playing hard to get.
PHRASE: V inflects
19.
If someone is hard put to do something or, in British English if they are hard pushed to do something, they have great difficulty doing it.
Mr Morton is undoubtedly cleverer than Mr Kirkby, but he will be hard put to match his popularity.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR to-inf
20.
If you take something hard, you are very upset or depressed by it.
Maybe I just took it too hard.
PHRASE: V inflects
Википедия
Hard
Hard may refer to:
- Hardness, resistance of physical materials to deformation or fracture
- Hard water, water with high mineral content
Примеры произношения для hard
1. Families are hard, hard, hard,
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2. Hard is hard.
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3. Hard problems are hard.
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4. Hard left! Hard left!
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5. Push hard, push hard.
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Примеры употребления для hard
1. Watching is sometimes hard, bloodcurdlingly hard, but reality is no less hard right now.
2. But, you know, it‘s hard after a while to party very hard and work very hard.
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4. These hard working people are exactly that – hard working.
5. Worked hard "I have worked hard and it‘s paid off.