(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
(superl.) Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
(superl.) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
(superl.) Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
(superl.) Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
(superl.) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
(superl.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
(adv.) With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
(adv.) With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
(adv.) Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.
(adv.) So as to raise difficulties.
(adv.) With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
(adv.) Close or near.
(v. t.) To harden; to make hard.
(n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
(2) Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year.
(3) Topical and systemic antibiotic therapy is common in dermatology, yet it is hard to find a rationale for a particular route in some diseases.
(4) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(5) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
(6) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
(7) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
(8) She stopped working only when the pain made it hard for her to get to work.
(9) He was reclusive, I know that, and he was often given a hard time for it.
(10) This defeat, though, is hardly a good calling card for the main job.
(11) Since this test is easily performed and hardly stresses the patient, it should routinely be the initial one for the diagnosis of renal osteopathy.
(12) Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes.
(13) But I don't wish to be too hard on the judge for not taking that view.
(14) Our campaign has been going for some time and each step in our progress has been hard won, by campaigners paid and volunteer alike.
(15) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(16) All the same, it's hard to approach the school, which charges nearly £28,000 for boarders and nearly £19,000 for day girls and is sometimes called "the girls' Eton", without a few prejudices.
(17) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(18) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
(19) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(20) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
Laborious
Definition:
(a.) Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome.
(a.) Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The quantitative method used for determination of HBDH is reliable, accurate, simple and rapid and therefore has better value in a clinical setting than electrophoresis and adsorption techniques which are laborious and time consuming.
(2) Conventional procedures for the isolation of uncontaminated polysomal RNAs which rely on sucrose density centrifugations are laborious and unsuitable for large scale isolations.
(3) While the TLC assay is accurate and sensitive, it is laborious.
(4) The aim of the present study was to develop a method which allows determination of pseudo (PsChE) and acetyl cholinesterase (AChE) activities in single hemolyzed blood samples of workers exposed to cholinesterase-inhibiting compounds, avoiding the time-consuming and laborious separation of plasma and erythrocytes.
(5) TR-FIA has several advantages over the more laborious techniques available so far: (i) high sensitivity, (ii) large assay ranges, (iii) rapidity and large number of simultaneous assays, (iv) simplicity, and (v) low cost provided that the laboratory has equipment for time-resolved fluorometry.
(6) The collection of blood monocytes is much less laborious than the sampling of AMs.
(7) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
(8) The procedure needs half the amount of reagents as separate determination of each of the two mycotoxin, and is far less laborious.
(9) Patient charts allow the capture of all information relevant to the patient, but are laborious to review in detail.
(10) HLA typing of amniotic cells for clinical purposes using the conventional cytotoxicity assay is a laborious and complicated procedure.
(11) Current methods for determining plasma prekallikrein, one of three zymogens of the contact phase of plasma proteolysis, are laborious and impractical for general use in a clinical laboratory.
(12) The method used in the present study is less laborious than morphometry employing electron microscopy.
(13) At present rhinoviruses are detected and serotyped in tissue cultures, a slow and laborious process.
(14) Both procedures detect tubular damage equally well and neither requires laborious sample treatment.
(15) Providers of HHC services are burdened by the laborious process of obtaining favorable coverage determinations for short-term-care patients when home care substitutes for institutional care.
(16) Yet, comparison of three-dimensional structures is a laborious time-consuming procedure that typically requires a manual phase.
(17) The core variable that emerged from the data was labeled "constructing a personal residence" to reflect the participants' descriptions of their experiences as laborious, active and constructive.
(18) Only four of those cleared have actually left Guantánamo, owing to internal bureaucracy and laborious diplomacy.
(19) This method was much less laborious than other methods that have been used so far, and most significantly, constant results were obtained in repeated experiments.
(20) The resulting Kd and maximum binding site values with 36 tumor tissue samples approximated the values obtained with the more laborious, larger tissue sample-demanding six-point Scatchard plot.