1. Not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated
2. Metaphorically hard
3. Dried out
4. Into a solid condition
5. Unfortunate or hard to bear; SYN. tough.
6. Very strong or vigorous; SYN. knockout, severe.
7. Having a high alcoholic content; SYN. strong.
8. Said of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; SYN. heavy.
9. Permanent, fixed, or physically defined; unchangeable by the ordinary operation of a computer system. See also hard copy, hard error, hard return, hard-sectored disk. Compare soft (definition 1).
10. Retaining magnetization even in the absence of an external magnetic field. Compare soft (definition 2).

ETYM Old Eng. harde, AS. hearde.
1. With effort or force or vigor.
2. With firmness; SYN. firmly.
3. With pain or distress or bitterness.
4. To the full extent possible; all the way.
5. Slowly and with difficulty.
6. Earnestly or intently.
7. Causing great damage or hardship; SYN. severely.
8. Very near or close in space or time.

Množina: hard a nuts

Množina: hard coals

Anthracite.

Množina: hard copies

Output in a permanent form (usually a printout) rather than in temporary form, as on disk or display terminal.
Text that is typed or printed on paper.
Printed output on paper, film, or other permanent medium. Compare soft copy.
Computer output printed on paper.

Množina: hard currencies

Money that can be exchanged for gold

Množina: hard disks

In computing, a storage device consisting of a rigid metal disk coated with a magnetic material. Data are read from and written to the disk by means of a unit called a disk drive. The hard disk may be permanently fixed into the drive or in the form of a disk pack that can be removed and exchanged with a different pack. Hard disks vary from large units with capacities of over 3,000 megabytes, intended for use with mainframe computers, to small units with capacities as low as 20 megabytes, intended for use with microcomputers.
A device containing one or more inflexible platters coated with material in which data can be recorded magnetically, together with their read/write heads, the head-positioning mechanism, and the spindle motor in a sealed case that protects against outside contaminants. The protected environment allows the head to fly 10 to 25 millionths of an inch above the surface of a platter rotating typically at 3600 to 7200 rpm; therefore, much more data can be stored and accessed much more quickly than on a floppy disk. Most hard disks contain from two to eight platters. See the illustration. Also called: hard disk drive. Compare floppy disk. hard-disk

To cook (an egg) in the shell until both white and yolk have solidified.

Množina: hard-boiled eggs

An egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidify.