The withdrawal of the United Kingdom both from the European Union and from European institutions (e.g. the European single market or the European Union Customs Union).

hard byadv

nearby; in close proximity.

hard casenoun

A tough person.

hard classnoun

A class of accommodation, typically on trains, which is less comfortable than other classes, and might have wooden seating.

hard copynoun

A printed copy of a digital document, as opposed to a copy in electronic form.

hard countnoun

The situation where the quarterback attempts to draw the defense offside through a deceptive snap count sequence, sometimes accompanied by subtle body movements which simulate the initiation of the play.

hard counternoun

A character, item, or playstyle able to utterly defeat or nullify another.

hard decknoun

In air combat training, the minimum allowed altitude below which the aircraft is considered destroyed by ground impact.

hard determinismnoun

A view on free will which holds that determinism is true, that it is incompatible with free will, and therefore that free will does not exist.

hard deterministadj

Of, pertaining to or supporting hard determinism, the belief that free will and determinism are incompatible ideas.

hard discnoun

Alternative spelling of hard disk.

hard done byadj

used, cheated, or exploited by

hard drinknoun

Synonym of strong drink (narrow sense: distilled alcoholic beverage).

hard drugnoun

An illegal, highly addictive drug.

hard feelingsnoun

Resentment, anger.

hard floatnoun

A hardware implementation of a floating-point number.

hard floatsnoun

plural of hard float

hard foodnoun

Starchy staple fruits and vegetables.

hard forknoun

A rule change of a blockchain such that the software validating according to the old rules will see the blocks produced according to the new rules as invalid; the new blockchain resulting from such a split.

hard gnoun

The plosive /g/ sound in "get", "log" and "give" as distinct from the soft g in "gem", "giraffe", "lodge" and "generation".

hard goingphrase

Difficult to understand and enjoy.

hard hatnoun

A helmet, usually made from rigid plastic, used on construction sites to protect the head from falling objects.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter H contains 23,837 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 477 pages, and you are currently viewing page 66. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

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