hard vs knockout what difference

what is difference between hard and knockout

English

Etymology

From Middle English hard, from Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz, from Proto-Indo-European *kort-ús, from *kret- (“strong, powerful”). Cognate with German hart, Swedish hård, Ancient Greek κρατύς (kratús), Sanskrit क्रतु (krátu), Avestan ????????????????????‎ (xratu).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: häd, IPA^(key): /hɑːd/
• (General American) enPR: härd, IPA^(key): /hɑɹd/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

Adjective

hard (comparative harder, superlative hardest)

1. (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
   1. Resistant to pressure.

   2. (of drink or drugs) Strong.
   3. (of a normally nonalcoholic drink) Containing alcohol.

      hard cider, hard lemonade, hard seltzer, hard soda

   4. (of water) High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
   5. (physics, of a ferromagnetic material) Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
   6. (photography, of light) Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.
2. (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
   1. Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
      • 1988, An Oracle, Edmund White

        Ray found it hard to imagine having accumulated so many mannerisms before the dawn of sex, of the sexual need to please, of the staginess sex encourages or the tightly capped wells of poisoned sexual desire the disappointed must stand guard over.
   2. Demanding a lot of effort to endure.

   3. Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.

      The senator asked the party chief to put the hard word on his potential rivals.

      • 1730, Henry Fielding, Rape upon Rape, Act 4, Scene 7:

        Leave off fornicating; leave the girls to the boys, and stand to thy bottle; it is a virtue becoming our years; and don’t be too hard on a wild honest young rake.

   4. (dated) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
   5. (military) Hardened; having unusually strong defences.

      a hard site

3. Unquestionable, unequivocal.
4. (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.

5. (slang, vulgar, of a male) Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.

6. (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
7. (phonetics, not comparable)
   1. Plosive.

   2. Unvoiced

   3. Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized

8. (art) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
   1. Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
   2. Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
9. (not comparable)
   1. In a physical form, not digital.

   2. Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.

10. (politics) Far, extreme.

    hard right, hard left

11. Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.

Synonyms

• (resistant to pressure): resistant, solid, stony, see also Thesaurus:hard
• (requiring a lot of effort to do or understand): confusing, difficult, puzzling, tough, tricky
• (requiring a lot of effort to endure): difficult, intolerable, tough, unbearable
• (severe): harsh, hostile, severe, strict, tough, unfriendly
• (unquestionable): incontrovertible, indubitable, unambiguous, unequivocal, unquestionable
• (of drink): strong
• See also Thesaurus:difficult

Antonyms

• (resistant to pressure): soft
• (requiring a lot of effort to do or understand): easy, simple, straightforward, trite
• (requiring a lot of effort to endure): bearable, easy
• (severe): agreeable, amiable, approachable, friendly, nice, pleasant
• (unquestionable): controvertible, doubtful, ambiguous, equivocal, questionable
• (of drink):
  • (low in alcohol): low-alcohol
  • (non-alcoholic): alcohol-free, soft, non-alcoholic
• (of roads): soft
• (sexually aroused): soft, flaccid
• (phonetics, all senses): soft

Derived terms

Related terms

• hardpeer
• hardy

Descendants

• → Finnish: haarti

Translations

Adverb

hard (comparative harder, superlative hardest)

1. (manner) With much force or effort.

   He hit the puck hard up the ice.

   They worked hard all week.

   At the intersection, bear hard left.

   The recession hit them especially hard.

   Think hard about your choices.

   • prayed so hard for mercy from the prince

   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, Scene i^[3]:

     […] My father / Is hard at study. Pray now, rest yourself;
2. (manner) With difficulty.

   His degree was hard earned.

3. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.
4. (manner) Compactly.

   The lake had finally frozen hard.

5. (now archaic) Near, close.

   • […] whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, page 418:

     It was another long day’s march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

hard (countable and uncountable, plural hards)

1. (countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
   • 1952, Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu Baron Montagu, Beaulieu, the Abbey, Palace House, and Buckler’s Hard (page 36)

     The Monastery’s ironworks at Sowley were renowned for centuries but declined with the passing of the ‘wooden walls’ at Buckler’s Hard — a great number of these ships having been built with timber from the Beaulieu Woods […]

2. (countable, motorsports) A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums.
3. (uncountable, drugs, slang) Crack cocaine.
4. (uncountable, slang) Hard labor.

   The prisoners were sentenced to three years’ hard.

Anagrams

• Dhar

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦɑrt/
• Hyphenation: hard
• Rhymes: -ɑrt
• Homophone: hart

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch hart, from Old Dutch hart, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz.

Adjective

hard (comparative harder, superlative hardst)

1. hard, strong

   Antonym: zacht

2. (economics, of a currency) strong, not easily devalued
3. unquestionable, uncontestable

4. heartless, unsympathetic (of a person)

   Antonym: zacht

5. hard, difficult

6. harsh, heavy

7. hard, rich in calcium (of water)

   Antonym: zacht

8. loud (of sound)

   Synonym: luid

   Antonym: zacht

9. fast

   Antonyms: langzaam, traag

   Synonym: snel

Inflection

Derived terms

• keihard
• harden
• hardheid
• hardlopen
• hardroeien
• hardrijden

Descendants

• Jersey Dutch: hārd
• Negerhollands: hart
• Skepi Creole Dutch: hardt

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

hard

1. (speed) fast, swiftly

2. very
3. loudly

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

hard

1. first-person singular present indicative of harden
2. imperative of harden

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English hard.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aʁd/

Adjective

hard (plural hards)

1. (of pornography) hardcore

Noun

hard m (plural hards)

1. hardcore pornography

2. hard rock
   • 2004, Thomas Mansier, Identité du rock et presse spécialisée. Évolution d’une culture et de son discours critique dans les magazines français des années 90, page 98.

   • 2014, Christian Eudeline, “Uriah Heep. Look At Yourself”, in Du hard rock au métal. Les 100 albums cultes, Gründ (publ.).

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [haːɾˠd̪ˠ]

Adjective

hard

1. h-prothesized form of ard

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse harðr, from Proto-Germanic *harduz.

Adjective

hard (neuter singular hardt, definite singular and plural harde, comparative hardere, indefinite superlative hardest, definite superlative hardeste)

1. hard (not soft)
2. hard, stern, severe
3. hardy

Derived terms

• beinhard
• hardhet
• hardkokt
• hardtslående

Related terms

• forherde
• herde

References

• “hard” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse harðr, from Proto-Germanic *harduz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑːr/, /hɑːɽ/ (example of pronunciation)
• Homophone: har

Adjective

hard (masculine and feminine hard, neuter hardt, definite singular and plural harde, comparative hardare, indefinite superlative hardast, definite superlative hardaste)

1. hard
2. hard, stern, severe
3. hardy

Derived terms

• beinhard
• hardkokt

References

• “hard” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī).

Adjective

hard (comparative hardiro, superlative hardist)

1. hard

Declension

Derived terms

• hardī

Descendants

• Low German: hard, hart (inflected hart-)

Spanish

Etymology

From English hard.

Adjective

hard (invariable)

1. hard, heavy, hardcore

English

Alternative forms

• knock-out

Etymology

From knock out.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɒkaʊt/

Noun

knockout (plural knockouts)

1. The act of making someone unconscious, or at least unable to come back on their feet within a certain period of time; a TKO.

   The boxer scored a knockout on his opponent.

2. The deactivation of anything.
   • 1989, Network World (6 February 1989, page 82)

     Pull the plug on a node to see how the network handles a node knockout.

3. (informal) Something wildly popular, entertaining, or funny.

   If you’ve ever had a sack race, you know it’s a real knockout for kids and adults alike.

4. (informal) A very attractive person, especially a beautiful woman.
   • 1995, Rhonda K. Reinholtz et al., “Sexual Discourse and Sexual Intercourse,” in P. J. Kalbfleisch and M. J. Cody, eds., Gender, Power, and Communications in Human Relationships, p. 150,

     Phrases such as “she bowled me over,” “she’s striking,” and “she’s a knockout” suggest that the woman affects the man in ways he cannot mediate or control.

5. A partially punched opening meant for optional later removal.

   They left a knockout in the panel for running extra wires someday.

6. (genetics) The deactivation of a particular gene.
7. (genetics) A creature engineered with a particular gene deactivated.
8. (printing) An event where a foreground color causes a background color not to print.
9. (sports) A tournament in which a team or player must beat the opponent in order to progress to the next round.

   the knockout stages of the competition
10. (uncountable) A simple game for two or more players, derived from basketball.
11. Short for knockout auction.

Derived terms

• knockout auction
• knockout drop
• knockout game
• knockout mouse
• knockout rat
• knockout whist

Descendants

• Portuguese: nocaute
• Spanish: nocaut

Translations

Adjective

knockout (not comparable)

1. Rendering someone unconscious.

   He delivered a knockout blow.

2. Amazing; gorgeous; beautiful.

   You should have seen her knockout eyes.

3. (genetics) Designating an organism in which a particular gene has been removed or deactivated.
   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 255:

     The result is a so-called knockout mouse, reared with a single gene silenced, the better to reveal that gene’s true purpose.

4. Causing elimination from a competition
   • 2012, Ben Smith, Leeds United 2-1 Everton [2]

     Rodolph Austin delivered the knockout blow from close range 20 minutes from time, after Aidan White had given Leeds a dream start after four minutes.

Translations

Related terms

• knock one’s socks off
• knock out
• technical knockout, TKO

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