Hard vs Apple - What's the difference?
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(label) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
# Resistant to pressure.
# (label) Strong.
# (label) High in dissolved calcium compounds.
# Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
(label) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
# Requiring a lot of effort to do or understand.
#* 1988 , An Oracle , Edmund White
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# Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
# (label) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
#* (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
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Unquestionable.
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, title= (label) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
Sexually aroused.
(label) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
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# Plosive.
# Unvoiced
(label) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
# Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
# Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
(label) In the form of a hard copy.
(manner) With much force or effort.
* Dryden
* Shakespeare
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(manner) With difficulty.
(obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(manner) Compactly.
Near, close.
* Bible, Acts xviii. 7
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 418:
(nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water
A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica , cultivated in temperate climates.
* c. 1378 , (William Langland), Piers Plowman :
* 1815 , (Jane Austen), Emma :
* 2013 , John Vallins, The Guardian , 28 Oct 2013:
Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as (custard apple), (thorn apple) etc.
* 1658 , trans. Giambattista della Porta, Natural Magick , I.16:
* 1784 , (James Cook), A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean , II:
* 1825 , Theodric Romeyn Beck, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence , 2nd edition, p. 565:
The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , Book X:
* 1985 , (Barry Reckord), The White Witch :
A tree of the genus Malus , especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
* 1913 , John Weathers, Commercial Gardening , p. 38:
* 2000 PA Thomas, Trees: Their Natural History , p. 227:
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* 2012 , Terri Reid, The Everything Guide to Living Off the Grid , p. 77:
The wood of the apple tree.
(in the plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears , slang for stairs.
(baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball.
(informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
1000 English basic words
As a noun hard
is stove, heater; an enclosed space in which fuel (usually wood) is burned to provide heating, usually for cooking.As a proper noun apple is
a nickname for new york city, usually “the big apple”.hard
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Adjective
(er)- Ray found it hard to imagine having accumulated so many mannerisms before the dawn of sex, of the sexual need to please, of the staginess sex encourages or the tightly capped wells of poisoned sexual desire the disappointed must stand guard over.
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- The stag was too hard for the horse.
- a power which will be always too hard for them
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- Hard' ''k'', ''t'', ''s'', ''ch'', as distinguished from '''soft , ''g'', ''d'', ''z'', ''j
- We need both a digital archive and a hard archive.
Synonyms
* (resistant to pressure ): resistant, solid, stony * (requiring a lot of effort to do or understand ): confusing, difficult, puzzling, tough, tricky * (requiring a lot of effort to endure ): difficult, intolerable, tough, unbearable * (severe ): harsh, hostile, severe, strict, tough, unfriendly * (unquestionable ): incontrovertible, indubitable, unambiguous, unequivocal, unquestionable * (of drink ): strong * See alsoAntonyms
* (resistant to pressure ): soft * (requiring a lot of effort to do or understand ): easy, simple, straightforward, trite * (requiring a lot of effort to endure ): bearable, easy * (severe ): agreeable, amiable, approachable, friendly, nice, pleasant * (unquestionable ): controvertible, doubtful, ambiguous, equivocal, questionable * (of drink ): ** (low in alcohol ): low-alcohol ** (non-alcoholic ): alcohol-free, soft, non-alcoholic * (of roads) soft * ("sexually aroused"): soft, flaccidDerived terms
* between a rock and a hard place * die-hard * hard as nails * hard-ass * hardboard * hard-boiled * hard by * hard candy * hard case * hard cheese * hard-coded * hard copy * hardcore * hard disk/hard disc * hard done by * hard drink * hard-edged * harden * hard feelings * hard grass * hard hat * hard head * hard-hearted * hard-hitting * hard knocks * hard labor * hard light * hard-liner * hard lines * hard luck * hardness * hard news * hard-on * hard-pressed * hard radiation * hard sauce * hard science fiction * hard-shell * hard times * hard to come by * hard to please * hard up * hardware * hard water * hard-wire * hardwood * hard work * have it hard * play hard to get * (hard)Adverb
(er)- 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.
- prayed so hard for mercy from the prince
- My father / Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself.
- His degree was hard earned.
- The vehicle moves hard .
- The question is hard set.
- The lake had finally frozen hard .
- whose house joined hard to the synagogue
- It was another long day's march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake.
Noun
(en noun)apple
English
(wikipedia apple)Alternative forms
* apl (Jamaican English)Noun
(en noun)- I prayed pieres to pulle adown an apple .
- Not that I had any doubt before – I have so often heard Mr. Woodhouse recommend a baked apple .
- Close by and under cover, I watched the juicing process. Apples were washed, then tipped, stalks and all, into the crusher and reduced to pulp.
- In Persia there grows a deadly tree, whose Apples are Poison, and present death.
- Otaheite […] is remarkable for producing great quantities of that delicious fruit we called apples , which are found in none of the others, except Eimeo.
- Hippomane mancinella. (Manchineel-tree.) Dr. Peysonnel relates that a soldier, who was a slave with the Turks, eat some of the apples of this tree, and was soon seized with a swelling and pain of the abdomen.
- Him by fraud I have seduced / From his Creator; and, the more to encrease / Your wonder, with an apple […].
- Woman ate the apple , and discovered sex, and lost all shame, and lift up her fig—leaf, and she must suffer the pains of hell. Monthly.
- If the grafted portion of an Apple or other tree were examined after one hundred years, the old cut surfaces would still be present, for mature or ripened wood, being dead, never unites.
- This allows a weak plant to benefit from the strong roots of another, or a vigorous tree (such as an apple ) to be kept small by growing on 'dwarfing rootstock'.
- Other fruit trees, like apples , need well-drained soil.
