hard vs malt

hard

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. 

adj
  • 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. 

  • Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal. 

  • 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. 

malt

noun
  • Malt liquor, especially malt whisky. 

  • A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor. 

  • Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise. 

  • Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain. 

verb
  • To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain. 

  • To become malt. 

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