Hard vs Together - What's the difference?
hard | together |
(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.
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# Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
# (label) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
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#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
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.
(label)
# 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
At the same time, in the same place; in close association.
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, title= Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
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In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
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As a noun hard
is stove, heater; an enclosed space in which fuel (usually wood) is burned to provide heating, usually for cooking.As an adverb together is
at the same time, in the same place; in close association.As an adjective together is
(colloquial) well organized, well developed.hard
English
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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Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […], passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard -to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.}}
- The stag was too hard for the horse.
- a power which will be always too hard for them
Kim Jong-il obituary, passage=Unsurprisingly for a man who went into mourning for three years after the death in 1994 of his own father, the legendary leader Kim Il-sung, and who in the first 30 years of his political career made no public statements, even to his own people, Kim's career is riddled with claims, counter claims, speculation, and contradiction. There are few hard facts about his birth and early years. }}
- 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)together
English
(wikipedia together)Adverb
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}