HARD AND FAST

Definition: HARD AND FAST

HARD AND FAST

1. (Naut.), so completely aground as to be immovable.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Conformity

Rule, nature, principle; law; order of things; normal state, natural state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition, ordinary condition, model condition; standing dish, standing order; Procrustean law; law of the Medes and Persians; hard and fast rule.

Crosswords: HARD AND FAST

Books

• Carbine And Shotgun Speed Shooting : How To Hit Hard And Fast In Combat (reference)

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Health

The decision reached will be specific to the infant, and there are no hard and fast guidelines that will apply to all cases. (references)

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Expression using "HARD AND FAST": hard and fast rule. Additional references.

Albanian

i rreptë (austere, hard, iron-handed, raucous, rigorous, severe, slashing, strict, stringent, tough, unkind, unmerciful, unrelenting), i pandryshueshëm (changeless, constant, dyed in the wool, equable, final, immutable, inalterable, inflexible, invariable, set, static, unalterable, unchangeable, unexceptional). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قاسي (austere, drastic, hard, hard bitten, harsh, rough, rugged, severe, sharp, slashing, stern, stony, strait, strict, stringent, tough, unyielding), ‏صعب (arduous, complicate, complicated, difficult, formidable, frustrating, harsh, hot stuff, knotty, lean, malaise, mure, nice, outrageous, risque, rough, rum, severe, sticky, stony, tartar, tricky, uneasy), ‏صارم (astringent, austere, disciplinary, dour, driving, exact, extreme, fast, firm, hard, hardheaded, inclement, puritan, ramrod, rigid, rigorous, rugged, searching, severe, sharp, stark, stern, stiff, strait, strict, stringent, swingeing, tight, tough, unrelenting, violent). (various references)

Bulgarian 

строг (astringent, austere, censorious, close, firm, grim, hard, hard-grained, hardhanded, ironclad, narrow, religious, rigid, rigorous, rugged, severe, sinewy, stern, straitlaced, strict, stringent, taut, unaffable, uncharitable), изхвърлен на брега. (various references)

Czech

striktní (strict, stringent). (various references)

French

strict (hard), sévère (hard, hardheaded, harsh), inflexible, difficile (hard), absolu. (various references)

Hungarian

merev (angular, austere, cast iron, ceremonious, hard-shell, inductile, inflexible, muscle bound, rigid, stark, steady, stiff, stiff style, tense, unwinking, unyielding, wooden), szigorú (austere, censorious, dour, exacting, harsh, inclement, meagre, poser, religious, rigid, rigorous, rugged, severe, strait, strict, stringent). (various references)

Manx

so-lhoobey (bendable, elastic, flexible, yielding), soit dy chionn. (various references)

Pig Latin

ardhay anday astfay.(various references)

Romanian

solid (awfully, big, deep, durable, enduring, fast, firm, firmly, hard, hefty, massive, massy, portly, profound, reliable, rocky, rugged, safe, secure, serious, solid, solidly, sound, soundly, Square, stable, sterling, stiff, stout, strapping, strong, tenable, tough, well knit), rigid (angular, buckram, cast iron, hard set, harsh, incompressible, inflexible, rigid, rigidly, stark, steady, stern, stiff, stiffly, strait laced, wooden), inflexibil (immutable, inflexible, unbending, unyielding). (various references)

Russian 

твердый (adamant, cast iron, coriaceous, deep-seated, fast, firm, gritty, hard, resolute, resolved, rigid, rocky, set, solid, steadfast, stern, stiff, stony, unflinching, unshaken, unshrinking, unyielding), непоколебимый (immovable, impregnable, iron-handed, resolute, stalwart, unflinching, unshakable, unshakeable, unshaken, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), жесткий (bristly, chewy, get-tough, hard, harsh, ironclad, leathery, rigid, stiff, tough). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

utvrđen (entrenched, established, fortified, set, stated), čvrst (firm, hard, solid, sound, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, strong, sturdy, tenacious, tight, trim, unwavering, wiry). (various references)

Spanish

rígido (firm, hidebound, inflexible, rigid, set, stable, stark, stiff, tense, wiry). (various references)

Swedish

fast (although, concrete, consistent, firm, firmly, fixed, fixedly, flat, immovable, indissoluble, permanent, permanently, rigid, settled, solid, stuck, sturdy, though, tight, unblinking, unfaltering, unshaken, unwavering), bindande (binding, cogent, conclusive, connective, stringent). (various references)

Turkish

sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), katı (callous, emphatic, emphatical, firm, fold, hard, hard boiled, hard line, insensitive, ironclad, rigid, sclerous, solid, Square, steel, steely, stern, stiff, strict), değişmez (changeless, constant, entrenched, equable, fast, fixed, flat-footed, frozen, immutable, inalterable, invariable, Pat, permanent, regular, rigid, set, settled, stable, static, steadfast, steady, unalterable, unchangeable, unchanging, unswerving, unvarying, unwavering). (various references)

Ukranian 

твердий (callous, choky, consistent, coriaceous, crisp, crusty, deep-seated, firm, hard, resolute, settled, solid, staunch, steadfast, stern, strong, tough), непорушний (eternal, firm, immobile, immutable, indefeasible, sacred, standing, static, stygian), непохитний (adamant, adamantine, die hard, granitic, granitical, immovable, impregnable, inflexible, inviolable, never say die, relentless, rocky, stable, steady, unbending, unshaken, unswerving, unyielding). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: hardstand.

-3 letters: haftaras, handfast, standard.

-4 letters: darshan, dastard, dharnas, haftara, sardana, sraddha.

-5 letters: arhats, dharna, drafts, farads, ratans, satara, sradha, strand.

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