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Definition: HARDENER |
HARDENERNoun1. One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemical Industry | A)a substance or mixture of substances added to an adhesive to promote or control the curing reaction by taking part in it; b)a substance added to control the degree of hardness of the cured film of a glue line. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | Chemical. . . used to toughen the gelatin emulsion. . . to render it less liable to physical damage by scratching or rubbing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | An alloy, rich in one or more alloying elements, added to a melt either to permit closer composition control than is possible by addition of pure metals or to introduce refractory elements not readily alloyed with thebase metal. (references) |
Occupations | Tends machine that agitates fur felt hat cones to mat together interlocking fibers and harden cones preparatory to forming into hats: Wraps wet cones in burlap and wrings or places cones in extractor and starts machine to remove excess water. Wraps cones in woolen cloth and places cloth containing cones on rollers of hardening machine. Pulls handle to lower upper rollers onto cones and simultaneously start timed rollers that agitate cones and tighten fibers in tip of cones. Removes cloth containing cones and repeats operation to tighten fibers in brim area of cones. May inspect cones and work fibers into holes and thin spots, using fingers, to repair damaged cones. (references) |
| Controls furnace to harden, anneal, or temper watch parts: Presses button to admit gas mixture, forcing air out of furnace and burning mixture at entrance to prevent discoloration of parts and to maintain carbon content in parts. Places parts in metal basket or cylinder and inserts parts into furnace according to specified temperature. Advises on furnace temperatures and heat-treating time periods, and recommends procedures to produce desired hardness. Quenches pieces with air or oil. May cover parts with charcoal to prevent rapid heating causing discoloration of parts. May insert thermocouple into furnace and connect thermocouple to recorder. (references) | |
| Kneads fur felt hat cones to mat together interlocking fibers and harden cones for shaping into hats: Wraps wet cones in burlap, squeezes wrapped cones to extract water, and removes cones from burlap. Rolls cones in blanket and kneads to interlock fibers and harden cones. Unrolls blanket, refolds and repositions cones in blanket, and repeats kneading until cones are sufficiently hardened to withstand subsequent handling and shaping into hats. Stacks hardened cones on bench or tray. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Synonyms by domain: hardening agent (chemical industrychemical industry, meteorology & standardschemical industry, physics). |
Crosswords: HARDENER |
| Specialty definitions using "HARDENER": ammonium aluminium sulphate, AUTO-BODY REPAIRER, FIBERGLASS, automatic lehr operator ♦ case hardener ♦ electronic induction hardener ♦ furnace operator ♦ hand hardener, HARDENER HELPER, heat treat worker ♦ lehr attendant, lehr operator, lehr stripper, LEHR TENDER, LENS HARDENER ♦ manual hardener ♦ optical mechanic ♦ PRODUCTION HARDENER ♦ sociale werkplaats. (references) |
| "HARDENER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HARDENER" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hardener | 32 |
nail hardener | 14 |
wood hardener | 4 |
hardener napa paint | 4 |
hardener concrete | 4 |
floor hardener | 2 |
hardener paint | 2 |
hardener hoof | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HARDENER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Härtemittel (hardeners). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 熱硬化剤 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ねつ"うかざい. (various references) | |
Korean | 경" . (various references) | |
Manx | creoigheyder (stiffener, toughener). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ardenerhay.(various references) | |
Swedish | härdare. (various references) | |
Turkish | sertleştirici (hardening, stiffener). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HARDENER": hardeners. (additional references) | |
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"HARDENER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aherdane, Ardener, Ardeseir, Hardenberg, hardner, hartner, Hebridena, Herrenberg, Herrenweg, Hidenori, Jardaneh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HARDENER" (pronounced hÄ"rduner) |
| 6 | -Ä" r d u n er | gardener. |
| 3 | -u n er | bargainer, Commissioner, commoner, conditioner, confectioner, coroner, examiner, executioner, Falconer, fastener, foreigner, freshener, laminar, listener, mariner, milliner, oftener, opener, parishioner, pensioner, petitioner, practitioner, prisoner, probationer, questioner, reasoner, softener, stationer, stiffener, sweetener, thickener, vacationer, Waggoner, Wagoner. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reharden. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-n-r-r" | |
-1 letter: adherer, reheard. | |
-2 letters: adhere, darner, dearer, earned, earner, endear, errand, harden, harder, header, hearer, herder, neared, nearer, reader, reared, redear, reearn, rehear, render, reread. | |
-3 letters: darer, denar, drear, eared, ender, erred, hared, heard, heder, ranee, rared, redan, reran. | |
-4 letters: dare, darn, dean, dear, deer, dene, dere, dree, earn, erne, hade, haed, haen, hand, hard, hare, head, hear, heed, herd, here, hern, nard, near, need, nerd, rand, rare, read, rear, rede, reed, rend, rhea. | |
-5 letters: and, ane, are, dah, dee, den, ear, edh, end, era, ere, ern, err, had, hae, hen, her, nae, nah, nee, rad, rah, ran, red, ree. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-n-r-r" | |
+1 letter: hardeners, rehardens. | |
+2 letters: rebranched, rehardened. | |
+3 letters: harbingered, harebrained, ironhearted, philanderer, rehardening, rethreading, superharden, tetrahedron, unchartered, undercharge, unrehearsed. | |
+4 letters: adrenochrome, dysmenorrhea, headshrinker, heartrending, henceforward, hereditarian, merchandiser, philanderers, superhardens, tetrahedrons, undercharged, undercharges. | |
+5 letters: adrenochromes, brokenhearted, dysmenorrheas, grandfathered, headshrinkers, hereditarians, merchandisers, nonhereditary, superhardened, tenderhearted, thenceforward, trapezohedron, underachiever. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 52 44 45 4E 45 52 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .-. -.. . -. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01010010 01000100 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A R D E N E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 0052 0044 0045 004E 0045 0052 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4235523839483952 |
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