HARDER

Definition: HARDER

HARDER

Noun

1. A South African mullet, salted for food.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HARDER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Crosswords: HARDER

Frisian (shepherd).

Well, it's harder to get much more obvious than that (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Fight harder, huh (Dirty Dancing; writing credit: Eleanor Bergstein.)

You have to work harder but you do acquire a certain finesse that is missing from the stick-em-up and shoot-them-down school (Jewel Robbery; writing credit: Bertram Bloch; Ladislas Fodor)

Why is my life so much harder than everybody else's (Roadie; writing credit: Big Boy Medlin; Michael Ventura)

Makes people pray harder. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

If this life gets any harder now (Fly Away From Here; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Now i kno then was even harder (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob)

And it seems like the harder I try, (What Kind of Man Would I be?; performing artist: Chicago)

Makes me work a little bit harder (Fighter; performing artist: CHRISTINA AGUILERA)

I'm harder than me tryna park a Dodge (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre)

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Fat people are harder to kidnap. (references; author: unknown)

Praying is hard; living without it is harder. (references; author: unknown)

Sleeping on the job: I was working smarter not harder. (references; author: unknown)

The Harder They Come (1973)

Nemesis III: Prey Harder (1995)

It Only Gets Harder (1995)

She Craved Harder (1995)

Echt Harder (1995)

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

Books

• Cold New World: Growing Up in Harder Country (reference)

• The Harder I Laugh, the Deeper I Hurt: Unmask Your Pain, and Let the Healing Begin (reference)

• The Harder They Come: A Novel (reference)

• The Harder They Fall (reference)

• Work Smarter Not Harder : The Service That Sells! Workbook for Foodservice (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Blink 182 - The Urethra Chronicles, Vol. II: Harder Faster Faster Harder (reference)

• The Harder They Come - Criterion Collection (reference)

• Bass Mekanik: Faster Harder Louder (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Digging It Harder From Afar (reference)

• Shake Harder Boy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Making it harder to raid. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nothing's harder to stop than a trend. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He so determined, and pushed the door a third time, harder than before

Floyd scraped harder with the chisel

Such sayings themselves grow harder and adhere more firmly with age, and it would take many blows with a trowel to clean an old wiseacre of them

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

If you do, it may be harder to control. (references)

Some drinks and foods may make urine control harder. (references)

Intense tingling and burning sensations are harder to treat. (references)

Business

Restrictions for convertibility impose even harder impediments for the development of this sector. (references)

The perception that automobiles with automatic gears are harder to service and maintain than those with manual gear cars is slowly fading. (references)

Also, the more stages of processing a products runs through the harder it gets to prove that the requirements for labeling a product as GMO-free are met. So far, there are only very few products on the German market which are labeled GMO-free, these are usually fruit- or vegetable products which have not been processed. (references)

Economic History

Guyana

Of the two bauxite mines to be privatized, Linmine should prove the harder sell. (references)

Japan

Harder to quantify are the costs of managing or--in some instances--"policing" the licensing agreement. (references)

Kenya

Residential telephone and fax lines are becoming harder to obtain due to the limited number of fixed lines. (references)

Minorities

Poland

The Romani community, numbering around 30,000, faced disproportionately high unemployment and was hit harder by economic changes and restructuring than were ethnic Poles, according to its leaders. (references)

Trade

Japan

However, after the "bubble" economy of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japanese banks have had a harder time maintaining strong capital positions, and consequently have become more restrictive, leading to a credit crunch. (references)

Travel

Czech Rep

As is the case in much of Europe, it is harder to make business appointments and contacts in the Czech Republic during August and close to major holidays, such as Christmas or Easter week. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "HARDER": become harder ♦ blow harder ♦ Harder gland ♦ harder than steel. Additional references.

Beginning with "HARDER": harder-edged, harder-fired, harder-hearted, harder-hitting, harder-to-realize, harder-wearing.

Ending with "HARDER": braden-harder, h-harder.

Albanian

fryj më fortë (blow harder), forcohem (bake, become harder, become stronger, deepen, harden). (various references)

Bulgarian 

заяквам (become stronger, blow harder, harden, improve, thrive, toughen). (various references)

Chinese 

比较艰苦. (various references)

Danish

skruetaenger maa kun benyttes paa samleleddene uden for slidbaandene,som er haardere end kaeberne (the jaws of the tongs must be closed only on the tool joints(away from the lines of wear)which are harder than the tong dies), glandula Harder (Harder gland), cementer med hoejere styrke udvikler stoerre afbindingsvarme og derved stoerre krybe-og svindspaendinger (cements which are harder develop more setting heat and thereby higher creep and shrinkage stresses). (various references)

Dutch

glandula van Harder (Harder gland), cementsoorten met grotere hardheid ontwikkelen meer bindingswarmte en daardoor grotere kruipen krimpspanningen (cements which are harder develop more setting heat and thereby higher creep and shrinkage stresses), boortangen mogen slechts op boorpijpkoppelingen worden geplaatst,buiten de slijtagebanden die harder zijn dan de bekken (the jaws of the tongs must be closed only on the tool joints(away from the lines of wear)which are harder than the tong dies). (various references)

Finnish

kovemmin (louder). (various references)

French

les clés de vissage ne doivent être posées que sur les tool-joints,en-dehors des cordons d'usure qui sont plus durs que les mors (the jaws of the tongs must be closed only on the tool joints(away from the lines of wear)which are harder than the tong dies), glande de Harder (Harder gland), dans les ciments d'une plus grande résistance se produit une plus grande chaleur de prise et partant des contraintes de retrait et de fluage plus importantes (cements which are harder develop more setting heat and thereby higher creep and shrinkage stresses). (various references)

German

härtere, härter (curing agent, flintier, steelier, tougher). (various references)

Greek 

σκληρότερος, πιο δύσκολος. (various references)

Hungarian

nagyobb erővel húz (to pull on harder), nagyobb erővel evez (to pull on harder), erősebben húz (to pull on harder), erősebben folytatja az evezést (to pull on harder), erősebben evez (to pull on harder). (various references)

Italian

più duro (flintier, tougher). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

降り募る (to rain harder), 吹き募る (to blow harder and harder). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふきつのる (to blow harder and harder), ふりつのる (to rain harder). (various references)

Korean 

열심히 (hard, Hardest). (various references)

Pig Latin

arderhay.(various references)

Portuguese

resistência:calor de presa:pressão:força de contracção:força de fluidificação.Nos cimentos de uma maior resistência produz-se um maior calor de presa,consequência das forças de contracção e de f (cements which are harder develop more setting heat and thereby higher creep and shrinkage stresses), glândulo de Harder (Harder gland). (various references)

Romanian

mai tare ca oţelul (harder than steel). (various references)

Russian 

труднее....более трудный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

duvati jače (blow harder). (various references)

Spanish

los cementos de mayor dureza producen mayor calor de fraguado, y provocan mayores tensiones de fluencia y de retracción (cements which are harder develop more setting heat and thereby higher creep and shrinkage stresses), glándulas de Harder (Harder gland). (various references)

Swedish

hårdare. (various references)

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

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

Misspellings

"HARDER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ardeer, arder, ardler, farder, Hader, Hadera, Hadjera, hafde, hairdre, Hamdard, hamruer, handbr, harber, hardner, hardor, Hardup, haredi, harker, hartner, hartor, Harzer, hearde, Hearder, herfer, herger, Herter, Hirdre, horder, Hradec, Hyader, Jardeir, marder, Rhaeder, shrader, yarder. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: darer, drear, hared, heard, rared.

-2 letters: dare, dear, hade, haed, hard, hare, head, hear, herd, rare, read, rear, rhea.

-3 letters: are, dah, ear, edh, era, err, had, hae, her, rad, rah, red.

-4 letters: ad, ae, ah, ar, de, ed, eh, er, ha, he, re.

+1 letter: adherer, charred, hardier, harried, hoarder, reheard.

+2 letters: abhorred, adherers, chresard, diarrhea, harbored, hardcore, hardener, hardware, hardwire, harrowed, heraldry, hoarders, hurrahed, hurrayed, overhard, reharden, rethread, threader, trihedra.

+3 letters: arrowhead, chartered, chresards, diarrheal, diarrheas, diarrheic, diarrhoea, earthward, harboured, hardcores, hardcover, hardeners, hardwares, hardwired, hardwires, hyperarid, overheard, recharged, recharted, rehardens, rehearsed, rehydrate, rephrased, rethreads, shadberry, shikarred, shoreward, threaders, threadier, trihedral.