cold vs hard

cold

adj
  • Without compassion; heartless; ruthless. 

  • Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour. 

  • Completely unprepared; without introduction. 

  • Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling. 

  • Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort. 

  • Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour. 

  • Having a low temperature. 

  • Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness. 

  • Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat. 

  • Without electrical power being supplied. 

  • Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial. 

  • Not loaded with a round of live ammunition. 

  • Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage. 

  • Causing the air to be cold. 

  • Not radioactive. 

  • Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot. 

  • Cornered; done for. 

noun
  • A harsh place; a place of abandonment. 

  • rheum, sleepy dust 

  • A condition of low temperature. 

  • A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever. 

adv
  • At a low temperature. 

  • Without preparation. 

hard

adj
  • Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal. 

  • In a physical form, not digital. 

  • Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength). 

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

  • Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle. 

  • Containing alcohol. 

  • Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading. 

  • Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows. 

  • Strong. 

  • Sexually aroused; having an erect penis. 

  • Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with. 

  • Unquestionable, unequivocal. 

  • Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition. 

  • Tough and muscular. 

  • High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium. 

  • Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft). 

  • Demanding a lot of effort to endure. 

  • Far, extreme. 

  • Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized. 

  • Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market. 

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

  • Hardened; having unusually strong defences. 

  • Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise. 

  • Resistant to pressure. 

  • hardcore 

  • Plosive. 

  • Unvoiced. 

adv
  • With much force or effort. 

  • Compactly. 

  • With difficulty. 

noun
  • Crack cocaine. 

  • A tyre whose compound is softer than superhards, and harder than mediums. 

  • Hard labor. 

  • A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water. 

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