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HARDIE

Date "HARDIE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

"HARDIE" is a common misspelling or typo for: hardy.


Specialty Definition: HARDIE

DomainDefinition

Industry

A blacksmith's fuller or chisel having a square shank for insertion into a hole in the anvil. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: HARDIE

Synonym by domain: hardiest (european union, industry).

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Commercial Usage: HARDIE

DomainTitle

References

  • James Hardie Industries Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The Paintings of Eldridge Hardie - Art of a Life in Sport (reference)

  • J. Keir Hardie, a biography (reference)

  • Keir Hardie (reference)

  • Leading Labour: From Keir Hardie to Tony Blair (reference)

  • To Build a New Jerusalem: The British Labour Party from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair (Rev) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: HARDIE

Illustrations:
HARDIE

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Photo Album: HARDIE

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Hardie. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hardie Henderson. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: HARDIE

AuthorQuotation

James Keir Hardie

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: HARDIE

"HARDIE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HARDIE" is used about 70 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%7039,981

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: HARDIE

The following table summarizes the usage of "HARDIE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
HardieLast name1,0007,679
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: HARDIE

CountryName
Australia

James Hardie Industries Ltd.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: HARDIE

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "HARDIE": cote-hardie.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HARDIE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

james hardie

197

james hardie industry

4

james hardie siding

54

titania hardie

4

hardie

48

glenn hardie

4

hardie irrigation

41

board hardie siding

4

hardie plank

41

eldridge hardie

3

hardie siding

37

hardie rain dial

3

james hardie building product

33

hardie pipe

3

board hardie

32

gypsum hardie james

3

james hardie irrigation

21

bagpipe hardie

3

hardie sprinkler

11

george hardie

3

hardie story

10

group hardie

3

company hardie james

7

hardie nicholson

3

hardie plank siding

7

hardie irrigation valve

2

hardie james product siding

7

en hardie laurel

2

hardie inc james

6

hardie sprinkler system

2

building hardie james material

6

hardie james plank

2

kate hardie

5

bill hardie

2

hardie valve

5

bruce hardie

2

hardie james product

5

building hardie james

2

hardie panel

5

co hardie james

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HARDIE

Language Translations for "HARDIE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

stokjern (hardy). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

schrootbeitel (hardy), schrooibeitel (hardy), schroodbeitel (hardy). (various references)

   

French

  

tranchet d'enclume (hardy). (various references)

   

German

  

Abschroeter (hardy). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σφήνα (chock, quoin, wedge), αιχμή (nib, peak, pin point, point, spicule, tip). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tagliuolo da incudine (hardy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ardiehay

   

Portuguese

  

trinchete para bigorna (hardy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cuchilla para yunque (hardy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: HARDIE

Derivations

Words beginning with "HARDIE": hardier, hardies, hardiest. (additional references)

Words containing "HARDIE": foolhardier, foolhardiest. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: HARDIE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: haired.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-i-r"

-1 letter: aider, aired, deair, hared, heard, hider, hired, irade, redia.

-2 letters: aide, arid, dare, dear, dire, hade, haed, hair, hard, hare, head, hear, heir, herd, hide, hied, hire, idea, ired, raid, read, rhea, ride.

-3 letters: aid, air, are, dah, die, ear, edh, era, had, hae, her, hid, hie, ire, rad, rah, red, rei, ria.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-i-r"
 

+1 letter: airhead, airshed, airthed, chaired, dashier, diehard, hagride, handier, hardier, hardies, harried, hayride, headier, hydriae, raphide, rawhide, shadier.

 

+2 letters: adhering, airheads, airsheds, antherid, archived, bedchair, chedarim, diarrhea, diehards, dihedral, dishware, hagrides, hardiest, hardline, hardwire, hayrides, heraldic, inarched, misheard, rachides, radishes, railhead, raphides, ravished, rawhided, rawhides, semihard, tracheid, trihedra, unhaired.

 

+3 letters: airheaded, anhydride, anhydrite, antherids, apartheid, aphorised, aphorized, archaised, archaized, archfiend, atrophied, bedchairs, birthdate, cashiered, chagrined, charioted, chivareed, chivaried, cochaired, diarchies, diarrheal, diarrheas, diarrheic, diarrhoea, diathermy, dihedrals, discharge, dishwares, dishwater, dyarchies, garnished, hagridden, handwrite, hardening, hardiment, hardiness, hardwired, hardwires, headfirst, headliner, hebraized, heralding, herniated, hindrance, holidayer, hydrazide, hydrazine, hyperacid, hyperarid, ideograph, inearthed, nephridia, philander, printhead, railheads, rhachides, rhodamine, scraiched, scraighed, shadowier, shikarred, shivareed, tarnished, therapsid, threadfin, threadier, threading, tracheids, trailhead, trihedral, unhandier, varnished.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HARDIE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 41 52 44 49 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    .-    .-.    -..    ..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000001 01010010 01000100 01001001 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#73 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 0052 0044 0049 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

423552384339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Names: Company Usage
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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