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Definition: Hard Water |
Hard WaterNoun1. Water that contains salts that prevent the formation of lather with soap. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Environment | Alkaline water containing dissolved salts that interfere with some industrial processes and prevent soap from sudsing. (references) |
Mining | Water that does not lather readily when used with soap, and that forms a scale in containers in which it has been allowed to evaporate; water with more than 60 mg/L of hardness-forming constituents, expressed as CaCO (sub 3) equivalent. See also:hardness; total hardness of water;temporary hardness of water. CF:soft water. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Hard Water |
| English words defined with "hard water": bring ♦ calcium octadecanoate, calcium stearate, concrete ♦ Rust joint ♦ soft water ♦ Travertine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hard water": BEAD MAKER, bog manganese, bog manganese ore, Brackelsberg process, BROWNING PROCESSOR ♦ chemical water treatment, claypan ♦ DESMONCHUS, durable crust ♦ Gargouille, genuine parchment, glass-bead maker, glaze icing ♦ heavy-equipment operator, humacite ♦ jet piercing ♦ mine water, Moore and Neill sampler ♦ OPERATING ENGINEER ♦ pyrobitumen ♦ slurry blasting agents ♦ Water, WHITING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ zeolite process. (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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hard water | 164 |
hard water stain | 57 |
hard water treatment | 32 |
hard water problem | 14 |
hard water spot | 13 |
hard water stain remover | 6 |
hard water filter | 6 |
hard water deposit | 6 |
hair hard water | 5 |
fact hard water | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hard water"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | hard water. (various references) | |
French | eau dure. (various references) | |
German | Hartwasser, hartes Wasser. (various references) | |
Hungarian | meszes víz, keményvíz (lime-water), kemény víz. (various references) | |
Italian | acqua dura. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 硬水 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "うすい (mineral water, perfume, precipitation, rainfall). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ardhay aterway.(various references) | |
Russian | жесткая вода (earth water). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: earthward. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-r-r-t-w" | |
-1 letter: hardware. | |
-2 letters: awarder, thrawed, warhead, wrathed. | |
-3 letters: darter, dearth, drawer, errata, harder, hatred, rather, redraw, retard, reward, tarred, thawed, thawer, thread, trader, warder, warred, warted, wreath. | |
-4 letters: aahed, ahead, arhat, award, aware, darer, dater, death, derat, dewar, drear, earth, hared, hated, hater, hawed, heard, heart, radar, rared, rated, rater, rathe, rawer, reata, tared, tarre, tawed, tawer, terra, thraw, threw, trade, tread, wader, wared, water, wheat, wrath. | |
-5 letters: area, awed, dare, dart, data, date, dawt, dear, drat, draw, drew, eath, haar, hade, haed, haet, hard, hare, hart, hate, head, hear, heat, herd, rare, rate, rath, read, rear, rhea, tahr, tare, tear, thae, thaw, thew, trad, twae, wade, ward, ware, wart, wear, wert, what, whet. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-h-r-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: earthwards. | |
+2 letters: warmhearted. | |
+3 letters: weatherboard. | |
+4 letters: northeastward, weatherboards. | |
+5 letters: northeastwards, weatherboarded. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 72 64 57 61 74 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01110010 01100100 00100000 01010111 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a r d   W a t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0072 0064 0057 0061 0074 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4267847025767867184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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