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Definitions: HARDHEAD |
HARDHEADNoun1. A coarse American commercial sponge (Spongia dura). 2. The gray whale. 3. A California salmon; the steelhead. 4. Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe. 5. The menhaden. See Menhaden. 6. Clash or collision of heads in contest. |
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Geography | Rounded, massive, often knobby or mushroom-shaped protuberance or growth of coral, usually forming on the submerged part of a coral reef, and frequently large enough to be dangerous to navigation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A hard knob or knot formed by extreme cementation of sandstone. b. A large, smooth rounded stone found esp. in coarse gravel. c. A tunnel in a coal mine driven through rock. Syn:hard heading d. A hard, brittle, white residue obtained in refining tin by liquation, containing, among other things, tin, iron, arsenic, and copper. Also, arefractory lump or ore only partly smelted. (references) |
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| Aythya australia |
The Hardhead (Aytha australis) is the only true diving duck found in Australasia. Hardheads are common in the south-east of Australia, particularly in the Murray-Darling Basin, but also in the wetter country near the coasts. They are moderately nomadic in normal years, but disperse widely in times of drought. Significant numbers reach as far afield as New Guinea, New Zealand, and the islands of the Pacific, where they can remain for some time, even breeding for a season or two.
Like the other members of the pochard group, Hardheads feed by diving deeply, often staying submerged for as long as a minute at a time. They slip under the water with barely a ripple, simply lowering their heads and thrusting with their powerful webbed feet. They eat a broad range of small aquatic creatures, and supplement this with water weeds.
Hardheads prefer larger lakes, swamps and rivers with deep, still water, but are often seen in smaller streams, flooded grasslands, and shallow pools. As a general rule, they avoid coastal waters. They rarely come to land and never perch in trees.
Hardheads are small by duck standards, usually not much more than 45 cm long but reaching 60 cm sometimes, and noticably more rounded in overall form than most ducks. Both male and female are a fairly uniform chocolate-brown above, with rufous flanks and white undersides (which are often not visible if the duck is in the water). The trailing edges and almost the entire underside of the wings are white. In the male, the eyes are a striking white (Hardheads sometimes used to be known as White-eyed Ducks), in the female, brown.
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Crosswords: HARDHEAD |
| English words defined with "HARDHEAD": gray whale ♦ ruddy duck ♦ Steelhead. (references) |
| 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. |
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hardhead | 13 |
catfish hardhead | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "HARDHEAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | troftë liqeni (lake trout, salmon trout), pragmatist (hardheaded, pragmatist), njeri praktik (pragmatist). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | практичен човек (practical). (various references) | |
Czech | praktik (practician, practitioner, Stager). (various references) | |
Danish | koralmassiv (bommy, coral head, coral knob, coral knoll). (various references) | |
Dutch | koraalmassa (bommy, coral head, coral knob, coral knoll), koraalkaap (bommy, coral head, coral knob, coral knoll). (various references) | |
French | trigle gris, massif corallien, grondin gris, gournand. (various references) | |
German | Korallenmassiv (bommy, coral head, coral knob, coral knoll), Korallenkalksteinmassiv (bommy, coral head, coral knob, coral knoll). (various references) | |
Greek | κοραλλιογενής μάζα (bommy, coral head, coral knob, coral knoll). (various references) | |
Hungarian | konok ember (hard-head). (various references) | |
Italian | elevazione di coralli (bommy, coral head, coral knob, coral knoll). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ardheadhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | maciço coralífero (bommy, coral head, coral knob, coral knoll). (various references) | |
Russian | практичный человек (practical person). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tvrda glava. (various references) | |
Spanish | macizo coralino (bommy, coral head, coral knob, coral knoll). (various references) | |
Swedish | nykterhet (abstinence, aridity, sobriety, temperance), korallhuvud (bommy, coral head, coral knob, coral knoll). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Eutrigla gurnardus, Trigla gurnardus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HARDHEAD": hardheaded, hardheadedly, hardheadedness, hardheadednesses, hardheads. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HARDHEAD" (pronounced hÄ"rdhe'd) |
| 4 | -d h e' d | Deadhead, Godhead, redhead. |
| 3 | -h e' d | Airhead, arrowhead, beachhead, bridgehead, bulkhead, bullhead, copperhead, dragonhead, drumhead, egghead, figurehead, flathead, letterhead, Loggerhead, masthead, skinhead, spearhead, steelhead, thickhead, trailhead, warhead, wellhead, Whitehead. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-h-h-r" | |
-3 letters: aahed, adder, ahead, dared, dread, haded, hared, heard, readd. | |
-4 letters: area, dada, dare, dead, dear, haar, hade, haed, haha, hard, hare, head, hear, herd, read, redd, rhea. | |
-5 letters: aah, add, aha, are, dad, dah, ear, edh, era, had, hae, hah, heh, her, rad, rah, red. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-h-h-r" | |
+1 letter: hardheads. | |
+2 letters: hardhanded, hardheaded. | |
+3 letters: handbreadth, hardhearted. | |
+4 letters: handbreadths, handsbreadth, hardheadedly. | |
+5 letters: featherheaded, handsbreadths, hardheartedly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 52 44 48 45 41 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .-. -.. .... . .- -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01010010 01000100 01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A R D H E A D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 0052 0044 0048 0045 0041 0044 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4235523842393538 |
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