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harden
(encz) | harden,kalit web |
harden
(encz) | harden,upevnit v: Zdeněk Brož |
harden
(encz) | harden,ztvrdnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
Harden
(gcide) | Harden \Hard"en\, v. i.
1. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more
compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
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The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A.
Lincoln] has hardened into tradition. --The Century.
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2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a
bad sense.
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They, hardened more by what might most reclaim.
--Milton.
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Harden
(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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harden
(gcide) | Hurden \Hur"den\, n. [From Hurds.]
A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden. [Prov. Eng.]
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harden
(wn) | harden
v 1: become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [syn: harden,
indurate] [ant: soften]
2: make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" [syn:
harden, indurate] [ant: soften]
3: harden by reheating and cooling in oil; "temper steel" [syn:
temper, harden]
4: make fit; "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"
[syn: season, harden]
5: cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was
inured to the cold" [syn: inure, harden, indurate] |
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hardening
(mass) | hardening
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case-hardened
(encz) | case-hardened,kalený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
case-hardened steel
(encz) | case-hardened steel, n: |
caseharden
(encz) | caseharden, |
face-harden
(encz) | face-harden, v: |
hardened
(encz) | hardened,kalený adj: Zdeněk Brožhardened,otužilý adj: parkmajhardened,tvrzený adj: Zdeněk Brožhardened,zocelený adj: parkmaj web |
hardener
(encz) | hardener,tužidlo Jaroslav Šedivý |
hardening
(encz) | hardening,tvrzení n: Zdeněk Brožhardening,vytvrzování n: Zdeněk Brožhardening,zpevnění n: Zdeněk Brožhardening,zpevňování n: Zdeněk Brož |
hardening of policy
(encz) | hardening of policy, |
hardening of the arteries
(encz) | hardening of the arteries, n: |
oil-hardened steel
(encz) | oil-hardened steel, n: |
unhardened
(encz) | unhardened, |
water hardening
(encz) | water hardening,ztvrzování vody [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
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.
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Caseharden
(gcide) | Caseharden \Case"hard`en\, v. t.
1. To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron
into steel.
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2. To render insensible to good influences.
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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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Casehardening
(gcide) | Casehardening \Case"hard`en*ing\, n.
The act or process of converting the surface of iron into
steel. --Ure.
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Note: Casehardening is now commonly effected by cementation
with charcoal or other carbonizing material, the depth
and degree of hardening (carbonization) depending on
the time during which the iron is exposed to the heat.
See Cementation.
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Enharden
(gcide) | Enharden \En*hard"en\, v. t. [Pref. en- + harden: cf. F.
enhardir to embolden.]
To harden; to embolden. [Obs.] --Howell.
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face-harden
(gcide) | face-harden \face-harden\ v. t.
to harden (steel) by adding carbon.
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Hammer hardening
(gcide) | Hammer \Ham"mer\ (h[a^]m"m[~e]r), n. [OE. hamer, AS. hamer,
hamor; akin to D. hamer, G. & Dan. hammer, Sw. hammare, Icel.
hamarr, hammer, crag, and perh. to Gr. 'a`kmwn anvil, Skr.
a[,c]man stone.]
1. An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the
like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron,
fixed crosswise to a handle.
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With busy hammers closing rivets up. --Shak.
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2. Something which in form or action resembles the common
hammer; as:
(a) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to
indicate the hour.
(b) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires,
to produce the tones.
(c) (Anat.) The malleus. See under Ear.
(d) (Gun.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the
percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly,
however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a
flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock
to ignite the priming.
(e) Also, a person or thing that smites or shatters; as,
St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
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He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had
been the "massive iron hammers" of the whole
earth. --J. H.
Newman.
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3. (Athletics) A spherical weight attached to a flexible
handle and hurled from a mark or ring. The weight of head
and handle is usually not less than 16 pounds.
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Atmospheric hammer, a dead-stroke hammer in which the
spring is formed by confined air.
Drop hammer, Face hammer, etc. See under Drop, Face,
etc.
Hammer fish. See Hammerhead.
Hammer hardening, the process of hardening metal by
hammering it when cold.
Hammer shell (Zool.), any species of Malleus, a genus of
marine bivalve shells, allied to the pearl oysters, having
the wings narrow and elongated, so as to give them a
hammer-shaped outline; -- called also hammer oyster.
To bring to the hammer, to put up at auction.
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Hammer-harden
(gcide) | Hammer-harden \Ham"mer-hard`en\ (-h[aum]rd`'n), v. t.
To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.
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Harden
(gcide) | Harden \Hard"en\, v. i.
1. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more
compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
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The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A.
Lincoln] has hardened into tradition. --The Century.
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2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a
bad sense.
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They, hardened more by what might most reclaim.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]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.
[1913 Webster]Hurden \Hur"den\, n. [From Hurds.]
A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden. [Prov. Eng.]
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Hardenbergia
(gcide) | Hardenbergia \Hardenbergia\ prop. n.
A small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet
flowers; closely related to genus Kennedia.
Syn: genus Hardenbergia.
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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.
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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.
[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.
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3. Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat
troops.
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4. Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and
unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used
only of behavior perceived negatively.
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Syn: Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling;
unsusceptible; insensible. See Obdurate.
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Hardener
(gcide) | Hardener \Hard"en*er\ (-'n*[~e]r), n.
One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers
tools.
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Hardening
(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.
[1913 Webster]Hardening \Hard"en*ing\, n.
1. Making hard or harder.
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2. That which hardens, as a material used for converting the
surface of iron into steel.
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Overharden
(gcide) | Overharden \O`ver*hard"en\, v. t.
To harden too much; to make too hard. --Boyle.
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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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Self-hardening
(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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To harden the neck
(gcide) | Neck \Neck\ (n[e^]k), n. [OE. necke, AS. hnecca; akin to D. nek
the nape of the neck, G. nacken, OHG. nacch, hnacch, Icel.
hnakki, Sw. nacke, Dan. nakke.]
1. The part of an animal which connects the head and the
trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more
slender than the trunk.
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2. Any part of an inanimate object corresponding to or
resembling the neck of an animal; as:
(a) The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of
a fruit, as a gourd.
(b) A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main
body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
(c) (Mus.) That part of a violin, guitar, or similar
instrument, which extends from the head to the body,
and on which is the finger board or fret board.
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3. (Mech.) A reduction in size near the end of an object,
formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the
journal of a shaft.
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4. (Bot.) the point where the base of the stem of a plant
arises from the root.
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Neck and crop, completely; wholly; altogether; roughly and
at once. [Colloq.]
Neck and neck (Racing), so nearly equal that one cannot be
said to be before the other; very close; even; side by
side.
Neck of a capital. (Arch.) See Gorgerin.
Neck of a cascabel (Gun.), the part joining the knob to the
base of the breech.
Neck of a gun, the small part of the piece between the
chase and the swell of the muzzle.
Neck of a tooth (Anat.), the constriction between the root
and the crown.
Neck or nothing (Fig.), at all risks.
Neck verse.
(a) The verse formerly read to entitle a party to the
benefit of clergy, said to be the first verse of the
fifty-first Psalm, "Miserere mei," etc. --Sir W.
Scott.
(b) Hence, a verse or saying, the utterance of which
decides one's fate; a shibboleth.
These words, "bread and cheese," were their neck
verse or shibboleth to distinguish them; all
pronouncing "broad and cause," being presently
put to death. --Fuller.
Neck yoke.
(a) A bar by which the end of the tongue of a wagon or
carriage is suspended from the collars of the
harnesses.
(b) A device with projecting arms for carrying things (as
buckets of water or sap) suspended from one's
shoulders.
On the neck of, immediately after; following closely; on
the heel of. "Committing one sin on the neck of another."
--W. Perkins.
Stiff neck, obstinacy in evil or wrong; inflexible
obstinacy; contumacy. "I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff
neck." --Deut. xxxi. 27.
To break the neck of, to destroy the main force of; to
break the back of. "What they presume to borrow from her
sage and virtuous rules . . . breaks the neck of their own
cause." --Milton.
To harden the neck, to grow obstinate; to be more and more
perverse and rebellious. --Neh. ix. 17.
To tread on the neck of, to oppress; to tyrannize over.
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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 |
face-harden
(wn) | face-harden
v 1: harden steel by adding carbon |
genus hardenbergia
(wn) | genus Hardenbergia
n 1: small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet
flowers; closely related to genus Kennedia [syn:
Hardenbergia, genus Hardenbergia] |
hardenbergia
(wn) | Hardenbergia
n 1: small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet
flowers; closely related to genus Kennedia [syn:
Hardenbergia, genus Hardenbergia] |
hardenbergia comnptoniana
(wn) | Hardenbergia comnptoniana
n 1: vigorous climber of the forests of western Australia; grown
for their dense racemes of attractive bright rose-purple
flowers [syn: Western Australia coral pea, {Hardenbergia
comnptoniana}] |
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] |
hardening
(wn) | hardening
n 1: abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue
2: the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or
crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the
set of the glue" [syn: hardening, solidifying,
solidification, set, curing]
3: the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more
compact) |
hardening of the arteries
(wn) | hardening of the arteries
n 1: sclerosis of the arterial walls [syn: arteriosclerosis,
arterial sclerosis, hardening of the arteries,
induration of the arteries, coronary-artery disease] |
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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