Usually means: Resistant to pressure or deformation.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hard: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hard: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hard, h'ard, hard: Wordnik
  7. hard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hard: Wiktionary
  9. hard: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. hard: Dictionary.com
  11. hard (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. hard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Hard (EP), Hard (Gang of Four album), Hard (Jagged Edge album), Hard (Rihanna song), Hard (TV series), Hard (band), Hard (disambiguation), Hard (music festival), Hard (tennis), Hard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Hard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. hard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. hard: Rhymezone
  17. hard, hard, hard(vochtig): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. hard: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. hard: Free Dictionary
  20. hard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. hard: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. hard: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. hard: Wiktionary
  24. hard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  25. hard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hard: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hard: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hard: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. HARD: Acronym Finder
  2. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. hard: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HARD: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. hard, hard, hard: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hard: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Hard: Urban Dictionary
  5. Hard: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hard (Firm), Hard: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  2. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. The Hard: Latitude Mexico
  5. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of material or fluid) Solid and firm.
adjective:  Resistant to pressure; difficult to break, cut, or penetrate.
adjective:  (of drink or drugs) Strong.
adjective:  (of a normally nonalcoholic drink) Containing alcohol.
adjective:  (oenology) Very acidic or tannic.
adjective:  (of water) High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
adjective:  (physics, of a ferromagnetic material) Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
adjective:  (physics, of electromagnetic radiation) Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength).
adjective:  (photography, of light) Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.
adjective:  (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
adjective:  Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
adjective:  Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
adjective:  Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
adjective:  (dated) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
adjective:  (military) Hardened; having unusually strong defences.
adjective:  (slang) Tough, muscular, badass.
adjective:  (slang) Excellent, impressive.
adjective:  Unquestionable; unequivocal.
adjective:  (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
adjective:  (slang, vulgar, of a male) Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
adjective:  (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
adjective:  (phonetics, not comparable) Fortis.
adjective:  Plosive.
adjective:  Unvoiced.
adjective:  (Slavic phonology) Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
adjective:  (art) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
adjective:  Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
adjective:  Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
adjective:  (not comparable)
adjective:  In a physical form, not digital.
adjective:  Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
adjective:  (politics) Far, extreme.
adjective:  Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
adjective:  (finance) Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
adjective:  (pornography) Hardcore.
adverb:  (manner) With much force or effort.
adverb:  (manner) With difficulty.
adverb:  (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.
adverb:  (manner) Compactly.
adverb:  (now archaic) Near, close.
noun:  (countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
noun:  (countable, motor racing) A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.
noun:  (uncountable, drugs, slang) Crack cocaine.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) Hard labor.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make hard, harden.
noun:  A surname.

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