| slovo | definícia |
hardened
(encz) | hardened,kalený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
hardened
(encz) | hardened,otužilý adj: parkmaj |
hardened
(encz) | hardened,tvrzený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
hardened
(encz) | hardened,zocelený adj: parkmaj web |
Hardened
(gcide) | Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened
(-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening (-'n*[i^]ng).] [OE.
hardnen, hardenen.]
1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to
indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
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2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with
constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to
confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
"Harden not your heart." --Ps. xcv. 8.
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I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10.
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Hardened
(gcide) | Hardened \Hard"ened\ (-'nd), a.
1. Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or
callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or
vice.
2. Rendered resistant to the effects of nearby explosions;
as, a hardened missile silo; hardened warhead electronics.
[PJC]
3. Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat
troops.
[PJC]
4. Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and
unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used
only of behavior perceived negatively.
[PJC]
Syn: Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling;
unsusceptible; insensible. See Obdurate.
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hardened
(wn) | hardened
adj 1: used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-
hardened judge" [syn: case-hardened, hardened, {hard-
boiled}]
2: made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat
treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
[syn: tempered, treated, hardened, toughened] [ant:
unhardened, untempered]
3: protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons);
"hardened missile silos" [ant: soft]
4: made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a
peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our
successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"-
V.S.Pritchett [syn: enured, inured, hardened]
5: converted to solid form (as concrete) [syn: hardened,
set] |
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case-hardened
(encz) | case-hardened,kalený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
case-hardened steel
(encz) | case-hardened steel, n: |
oil-hardened steel
(encz) | oil-hardened steel, n: |
unhardened
(encz) | unhardened, |
battle-hardened
(gcide) | battle-hardened \battle-hardened\ a.
Experienced in combat, and therefore more effective at
fighting; -- used mostly of infantry troops; as,
battle-hardened veterans.
Syn: combat-hardened, combat-tested.
[PJC] |
Casehardened
(gcide) | Casehardened \Case"hard`ened\, a.
1. Having the surface hardened, as iron tools.
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2. Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences;
rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or
resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.
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Hardened
(gcide) | Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened
(-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening (-'n*[i^]ng).] [OE.
hardnen, hardenen.]
1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to
indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
[1913 Webster]
2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with
constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to
confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
"Harden not your heart." --Ps. xcv. 8.
[1913 Webster]
I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10.
[1913 Webster]Hardened \Hard"ened\ (-'nd), a.
1. Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or
callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or
vice.
2. Rendered resistant to the effects of nearby explosions;
as, a hardened missile silo; hardened warhead electronics.
[PJC]
3. Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat
troops.
[PJC]
4. Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and
unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used
only of behavior perceived negatively.
[PJC]
Syn: Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling;
unsusceptible; insensible. See Obdurate.
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Self-hardened
(gcide) | Self-hardening \Self`-hard"en*ing\, a. (Metal.)
Designating, or pert. to, any of various steels that harden
when heated to above a red heat and cooled in air, usually in
a blast of cold air with moderate rapidity, without
quenching. Such steels are alloys of iron and carbon with
manganese, tungsten and manganese, chromium, molybdenum and
manganese, etc. They are chiefly used as high-speed steels.
-- Self`-hard"en*ed, a.
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Unhardened
(gcide) | Unhardened \Unhardened\
See hardened. |
case-hardened
(wn) | case-hardened
adj 1: used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-
hardened judge" [syn: case-hardened, hardened, {hard-
boiled}] |
case-hardened steel
(wn) | case-hardened steel
n 1: steel with a surface that is much harder than the interior
metal |
oil-hardened steel
(wn) | oil-hardened steel
n 1: steel that is quenched in oil |
unhardened
(wn) | unhardened
adj 1: not brought to a proper consistency or hardness;
"untempered mortar"; "untempered steel" [syn:
untempered, unhardened] [ant: hardened, tempered,
toughened, treated] |
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