Difficult to resist or control; powerful.

Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.

Not easy or agreeable to the taste; harsh; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.

Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.

a term for pungent tea, often associated with Assam teas.

Used to describe a black-tea liquor with great pungency and bitterness; a raw, rasping, or harsh quality related to greenness.

Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.

Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.

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.

With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.

With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; nimbly; as, to run hard.

very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"

(1) As applied to a photographic emulsion or developer, having a high contrast. (2) As applied to the lighting of a set, specular or harsh, giving sharp dense shadows and glaring highlights.

Trade term for low-quality coffee.

Acrid, sharp tasting infusion.

any hand that hasn't got an ace being counted as 11 in it.

a hand not containing an ace being counted for eleven points

Any total of cards in the game of blackjack which either do not include an ace or where the ace is counted as a one rather than an eleven.

of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker"

indulging excessively; "he drank heavily"

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.

Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.

Hard is the fourth and final studio album by the English post-punk group Gang of Four. It was originally released in 1983 on Warner Bros. Records (see 1983 in music).

Hard is the fourth album by American R&B group Jagged Edge, released in 2003 (see 2003 in music). It peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 200 album charts. It has been certified Gold by the RIAA, with over 500,000 copies sold in the US.

(adj) fine, good Ex. "That's a hard tie you're wearing".

adj. Cool, hip, tough. A flattering term.

(adj). Employeed. In the employ of. Usage: "Bubba's ain't here no more ... Burger King hard him away from us."

With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.

Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.

So as to raise difficulties.

Tending toward steeliness, but not quite shrill. Often the result of a moderate frequency-response hump centered around 6kHz, sometimes also caused by small amounts of distortion.

Too much upper midrange, usually around 3 kHz. Also as with good transient response, as if the sound is hitting you hard.

causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"

Aggressive and uncompromising, said of one's play. Jim played me hard all night; I could never get a break. Chips, as opposed to paper money. I gave the floorman $100 for $50 hard and $50 soft.

A term used to denote anything of a permanent nature or that exists physically. In contrast, soft is used to describe that which is intangible or changeable, including concepts and symbols. See also HARD COPY SOFT COPY

Flavor, not to be confused with hard bean. In terms of flavor, hard signifies a brew lacking sweetness and softness.

dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"

to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"

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.

not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated; "hard as rock"

with firmness; "held hard to the railing"

An adjective for describing someone as strong-willed; unemotional or uncaring.

The skip yells this to tell the sweepers to put more pressure on the ice when sweeping.

when plaster is placed straight on to the masonry rather than on to laths it is said to be on the hard. In damp conditions an air lime plaster on the hard will not set.

engineering Refers to the more traditional engineering methods of damming, piping and channelling stormwater run-off, rather than working with more natural methods, which mimic nature's water cycle

A ford or passage across a river or swamp.

A condition of a turf course where there is no resiliency to the surface.

Genres with faster, louder, pounding beats.

A problem is hard for a class if everything in the class can be reduced to it (under some notion of reduction). If a problem is in a class and hard for the class, then it's complete for the class. Beware; hard and complete are not synonyms

a magnetic storage device made up of platters of glass or metal with two usable sides marked with tracks (concentric circles)

This term is usually associated with an Entry Bulletin and follows a price and means that no differential is applied to the price you use for entry, exit or protective stop placement. This is, if you can reasonably place the order, as shown in the field under current market conditions, then do so.

Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.

very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening"

Coat Anodizing A combined electrical and chemical finishing process for aluminum that produces a hard, coloured, protective film on the surface.

costs: Refers to the actual out-of-pocket costs in a real estate project as distinguished from "sweat" and other equity.

Descriptive term for cooked cheeses.

A general term to indicate strength.

Penetrating and desirable strength.

disk - also hard drive Device for storing files and programs on your computer. The size or volume of a disk is often measured in megabytes or MB.

of speech sounds

High-G, energy sustaining turn.

An image with high contrast is refered to as hard.

250mg/L plus

into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"

When a man is aroused with a stiff penis due to sexual stimulation.

Close or near.

To harden; to make hard.