A question....what do you define as hard?

tommy · November 18, 2003

I have to disagree on the breakdown front. A really nice build up can enhance the nastyness of a tune, cause it lulls you into a false sense of serenity, then all of a sudden, the drums kick back in. Plus, it makes the tunes more interesting, I can't be doin with this shitey techy HH with no breakdowns and just a beat. Boring as [censored] !

Mr_Happy · November 18, 2003

imo good breakdowns still have a beat to it even tho it wont have a kick drum going. kinda like "umek - gatex" has no kick to it but still has a beat

jon_m · November 19, 2003

Resistant to pressure; not readily penetrated.

Physically toughened; rugged.

Mentally toughened; strong-minded.

Requiring great effort or endurance: a hard assignment.

Performed with or marked by great diligence or energy: a project that required years of hard work.

Difficult to resolve, accomplish, or finish: That was a hard question.

Difficult to understand or impart: Physics was the hardest of my courses. Thermodynamics is a hard course to teach.

Intense in force or degree: a hard blow.

Inclement: a long, hard winter.

Stern or strict in nature or comportment: a hard taskmaster.

Resistant to persuasion or appeal; obdurate.

Making few concessions: drives a hard bargain.

Difficult to endure: a hard life.

Oppressive or unjust in nature or effect: restrictions that were hard on welfare applicants.

Lacking compassion or sympathy; callous.

Harsh or severe in effect or intention: said some hard things that I won't forget.

Bitter; resentful: No hard feelings, I hope.

Causing damage or premature wear: Snow and ice are hard on a car's finish.

Bad; adverse: hard luck.

Proceeding or performing with force, vigor, or persistence; assiduous: a hard worker.

Real and unassailable: hard evidence.

Definite; firm: a hard commitment.

Close; penetrating: We need to take a hard look at the situation.

Free from illusion or bias; practical: brought some hard common sense to the discussion.

Using or based on data that are readily quantified or verified: the hard sciences.

Marked by sharp outline or definition; stark.

Lacking in delicacy, shading, or nuance.

Being a turn in a specific direction at an angle more acute than other possible routes.

Metallic, as opposed to paper. Used of currency.

Backed by bullion rather than by credit. Used of currency.

High and stable. Used of prices.

Durable; lasting: hard merchandise.

Written or printed rather than stored in electronic media: sent the information by hard mail.

Erect; tumid. Used of a penis.

Having high alcoholic content; intoxicating: hard liquor.

Rendered alcoholic by fermentation; fermented: hard cider.

Containing dissolved salts that interfere with the lathering action of soap. Used of water.

Linguistics. Velar, as in c in cake or g in log, as opposed to palatal or soft.

Physics. Of relatively high energy; penetrating: hard x-rays.

High in gluten content: hard wheat.

Chemistry. Resistant to biodegradation: a hard detergent.

Physically addictive. Used of certain illegal drugs, such as heroin.

Resistant to blast, heat, or radiation. Used especially of nuclear weapons.

adv.

With strenuous effort; intently: worked hard all day; stared hard at the accused criminal.

With great force, vigor, or energy: pressed hard on the lever.

In such a way as to cause great damage or hardship: industrial cities hit hard by unemployment.

With great distress, grief, or bitterness: took the divorce hard.

Firmly; securely: held hard to the railing.

Toward or into a solid condition: concrete that sets hard within a day.

Near in space or time; close: The factory stands hard by the railroad tracks.

Nautical. Completely; fully: hard alee.

Idioms:

hard and fast

Defined, fixed, and invariable: hard and fast rules.

hard of hearing

Having a partial loss of hearing.

One who has a partial loss of hearing.

hard put

Undergoing great difficulty: Under the circumstances, he was hard put to explain himself.

hard up Informal

In need; poor.

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[Middle English, from Old English heard. See kar- in Indo-European Roots.]

Synonyms: hard, difficult, arduous

These adjectives mean requiring great physical or mental effort to do, achieve, or master. Hard is the most general term: “You write with ease to show your breeding,/But easy writing's curst hard reading” (Richard Brinsley Sheridan). Difficult and hard are interchangeable in many instances. Difficult, however, is often preferable where the need for skill or ingenuity is implied: “All poetry is difficult to read,/The sense of it is, anyhow” (Robert Browning). Arduous applies to burdensome labor or sustained physical or spiritual effort: “knowledge at which [isaac] Newton arrived through arduous and circuitous paths” (Thomas Macaulay).

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7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over or through.

By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject. --South.

8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.

The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live. --Shak.

9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.

I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away. --Ex. viii. 28.

10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die.

By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath our master sped. --Sir W. Scott.

11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New York.

His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow. --Dryden.

12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.

Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb, lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go astray, etc.

Go to, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation, serious or ironical.

To go a-begging, not to be in demand; to be undesired.

To go about. (a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to undertake. ``They went about to slay him.'' --Acts ix. 29.

They never go about . . . to hide or palliate their vices. --Swift. ( (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear.

To go abraod. (a) To go to a foreign country. ( To go out of doors. © To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be current.

Then went this saying abroad among the brethren. --John xxi. 23.

To go against. (a) To march against; to attack. ( To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to.

To go ahead. (a) To go in advance. ( To go on; to make progress; to proceed.

To go and come. See To come and go, under Come.

To go aside. (a) To withdraw; to retire.

He . . . went aside privately into a desert place. --Luke. ix. 10. ( To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29.

To go back on. (a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps). ( To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [slang, U. S.]

To go below (Naut), to go below deck.

To go between, to interpose or mediate between; to be a secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander.

To go beyond. See under Beyond.

To go by, to pass away unnoticed; to omit.

To go by the board (Naut.), to fall or be carried overboard; as, the mast went by the board.

To go down. (a) To descend. ( To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down. © To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc. (d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively. [Colloq.]

Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange.

To go far. (a) To go to a distance. ( To have much weight or influence.

To go for. (a) To go in quest of. ( To represent; to pass for. © To favor; to advocate. (d) To attack; to assault. [Low] (e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price).

To go for nothing, to be parted with for no compensation or result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count for nothing.

To go forth. (a) To depart from a place. ( To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.

The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. --Micah iv. 2.

To go hard with, to trouble, pain, or endanger.

To go in, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.]

To go in and out, to do the business of life; to live; to have free access. --John x. 9.

To go in for. [Colloq.] (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.). ( To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.) © To complete for (a reward, election, etc.). (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.

He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else. --Dickens.

To go in to or unto. (a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16. ( To have sexual intercourse with. [script.]

To go into. (a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question, subject, etc.). ( To participate in (a war, a business, etc.).

To go large. (Naut) See under Large.

To go off. (a) To go away; to depart.

The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you. --Shak. ( To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off. © To die. --Shak. (d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of a gun, a mine, etc. (e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of. (f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.

The wedding went off much as such affairs do. --Mrs. Caskell.

To go on. (a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to go on reading. ( To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will not go on.

To go all fours, to correspond exactly, point for point.

It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours. --Macaulay.

To go out. (a) To issue forth from a place. ( To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.

There are other men fitter to go out than I. --Shak.

What went ye out for to see ? --Matt. xi. 7, 8, 9. © To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as news, fame etc. (d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as, the light has gone out.

Life itself goes out at thy displeasure. --Addison.

To go over. (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides.

I must not go over Jordan. --Deut. iv. 22.

Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. --Deut. iii. 25.

Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites. --Jer. xli. 10. ( To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go over one's accounts.

If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing. --Tillotson. © To transcend; to surpass. (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the session. (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into dextrose and levulose.

To go through. (a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work. ( To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a surgical operation or a tedious illness. © To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune. (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [slang] (e) To botch or bungle a business. [scot.]

To go through with, to perform, as a calculation, to the end; to complete.

To go to ground. (a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox. ( To fall in battle.

To go to naught (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or unavailling.

To go under. (a) To set; -- said of the sun. ( To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.). © To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish; to succumb.

To go up, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail. [slang]

To go upon, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis.

To go with. (a) To accompany. ( To coincide or agree with. © To suit; to harmonize with.

To go (

well,

ill, or

hard)

with, to affect (one) in such manner.

To go without, to be, or to remain, destitute of.

To go wrong. (a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or stray. ( To depart from virtue. © To happen unfortunately. (d) To miss success.

To let go, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to release.

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\Hard\, a. [Compar. Harder; superl. Hardest.] [OE. heard, AS. heard; akin to OS. & D. heard, G. hart, OHG. harti, Icel. har?r, Dan. haard, Sw. h[*a]rd, Goth. hardus, Gr.? strong, ?, ?, strength, and also to E. -ard, as in coward, drunkard, -crat, -cracy in autocrat, democracy; cf. Skr. kratu strength, ? to do, make. Cf. Hardy.] 1. Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

2. Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.

The hard causes they brought unto Moses. --Ex. xviii. 26.

In which are some things hard to be understood. --2 Peter iii. 16.

3. Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.

4. Difficult to resist or control; powerful.

The stag was too hard for the horse. --L'Estrange.

A power which will be always too hard for them. --Addison.

5. Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.

I never could drive a hard bargain. --Burke.

6. Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.

7. Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.

Figures harder than even the marble itself. --Dryden.

8. Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.

9. (Pron.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.

10. Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.

11. (Painting) (a) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition. ( Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.

Hard cancer, Hard case, etc. See under Cancer, Case, etc.

Hard clam, or Hard-shelled clam (Zo["o]l.), the guahog.

Hard coal, anthracite, as distinguished from bituminous or soft coal.

Hard and fast. (Naut.) See under Fast.

Hard finish (Arch.), a smooth finishing coat of hard fine plaster applied to the surface of rough plastering.

Hard lines, hardship; difficult conditions.

Hard money, coin or specie, as distinguished from paper money.

Hard oyster (Zo["o]l.), the northern native oyster. [Local, U. S.]

Hard pan, the hard stratum of earth lying beneath the soil; hence, figuratively, the firm, substantial, fundamental part or quality of anything; as, the hard pan of character, of a matter in dispute, etc. See Pan.

Hard rubber. See under Rubber.

Hard solder. See under Solder.

Hard water, water, which contains lime or some mineral substance rendering it unfit for washing. See Hardness, 3.

Hard wood, wood of a solid or hard texture; as walnut, oak, ash, box, and the like, in distinction from pine, poplar, hemlock, etc.

In hard condition, in excellent condition for racing; having firm muscles;-said of race horses.

Syn: Solid; arduous; powerful; trying; unyielding; stubborn; stern; flinty; unfeeling; harsh; difficult; severe; obdurate; rigid. See Solid, and Arduous.

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\Hard\, adv. [OE. harde, AS. hearde.] 1. With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.

And prayed so hard for mercy from the prince. --Dryden.

My father Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself. --Shak.

2. With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.

3. Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly. --Shak.

4. So as to raise difficulties. `` The guestion is hard set''. --Sir T. Browne.

5. With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.

6. Close or near.

Whose house joined hard to the synagogue. --Acts xviii.7.

Hard by, near by; close at hand; not far off. ``Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.'' --Milton.

Hard pushed, Hard run, greatly pressed; as, he was hard pushed or hard run for time, money, etc. [Colloq.]

Hard up, closely pressed by want or necessity; without money or resources; as, hard up for amusements. [slang]

Note: Hard in nautical language is often joined to words of command to the helmsman, denoting that the order should be carried out with the utmost energy, or that the helm should be put, in the direction indicated, to the extreme limit, as, Hard aport! Hard astarboard! Hard alee! Hard aweather up! Hard is also often used in composition with a participle; as, hard-baked; hard-earned; hard-working; hard-won.

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\Hard\, v. t. To harden; to make hard. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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\Hard\, n. A ford or passage across a river or swamp.

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adj 1: not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" [syn: difficult] [ant: easy] 2: metaphorically hard; "a hard fate"; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"; "a hard climb" [ant: soft] 3: not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated; "hard as rock" [ant: soft] 4: very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow" [syn: knockout, severe] 5: characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, labourious, punishing, toilsome] 6: of speech sounds [ant: soft] 7: of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker" [syn: hard(a), heavy] 8: having undergone fermentation; "hard cider" [syn: fermented] 9: having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor" [syn: strong] 10: unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break" [syn: tough] 11: dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before" adv 1: with effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard" 2: with firmness; "held hard to the railing" [syn: firmly] 3: earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused" 4: causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure" [syn: severely] 5: slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard" 6: indulging excessively; "he drank heavily" [syn: heavily, intemperately] [ant: lightly] 7: into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours" 8: very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening" 9: with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard" 10: to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"

Maria · November 19, 2003

Resistant to pressure; not readily penetrated.

Physically toughened; rugged.

Mentally toughened; strong-minded.

Requiring great effort or endurance: a hard assignment.

Performed with or marked by great diligence or energy: a project that required years of hard work.

Difficult to resolve, accomplish, or finish: That was a hard question.

Difficult to understand or impart: Physics was the hardest of my courses. Thermodynamics is a hard course to teach.

Intense in force or degree: a hard blow.

Inclement: a long, hard winter.........................................

jon_m · November 19, 2003

Maria said:

Resistant to pressure; not readily penetrated.

Physically toughened; rugged.

Mentally toughened; strong-minded.

Requiring great effort or endurance: a hard assignment.

Performed with or marked by great diligence or energy: a project that required years of hard work.

Difficult to resolve, accomplish, or finish: That was a hard question.

Difficult to understand or impart: Physics was the hardest of my courses. Thermodynamics is a hard course to teach.

Intense in force or degree: a hard blow.

Inclement: a long, hard winter.........................................

Louise · November 19, 2003

think you got a bit carried away there

Phil B · November 19, 2003

fuckin hell jon.....i didn't expect essays!

Phil rr · November 19, 2003

psy trance is a bit like frantic, with a bass drum through every 'breakdown'.

Daredevil Tony · November 19, 2003

Phil_r said:
psy trance is a bit like frantic, with a bass drum through every 'breakdown'.

Sounds good

Mr_Happy · November 19, 2003

Phil_B said:
fuckin hell jon.....i didn't expect essays!

i think some1 got a little carried away with dictionary.com

Chris Hawkes · November 19, 2003

its got to be german itialian hardstyle for me. i reckon thats the definition of hard!

LiquidEyes · November 19, 2003

What the hell are you doing behind that red wall?

You dirty bastard!

November 20, 2003

liquideyes said:
What the hell are you doing behind that red wall?

You dirty bastard!

pulling one off aint he!!!

BenRW · November 20, 2003

November 20, 2003

benrostwood said:

thats the one

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