Noun: hardware
Sample Sentences
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He needed a hammer, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware, so he went to the hardware store.
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military hardware
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BOWEN: The monster trucks of Mars rovers, joke scientists, equipped with an array of sophisticated hardware to look for signs of water and answer scientists questions. [2003 June 6, “Mission to Mars”, in CBS_Rather:]
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It is one thing to see an intercooler as a simple entry in a textbook, but to witness the actual hardware as it crawled down the road was awe-inspiring. [2009 May, Lee S. Langston, “plowing new ground.”, in Mechanical Engineering, volume 131, number 5, page 40:]
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Smaller, turbocharged engines are one way to increase engine efficiency by 8 to 10 percent, but the extra hardware is expensive. [2011 January, “Swedish Sportster”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 188, number 1, page 27:]
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Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer. [1952, R.L. Michaelson, “Binary Arithmetic”, in The Incorporated Statistician, volume 3, number 1 (Feb. 1952), pages 35–40:]
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The designers have put their logo on the hardware of this bag here.
Nouns inflected like hardware
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English hardware; equivalent to hard + -ware; attested since the mid-15th century. See: Middle English Nouns '
hardware'.
Verbs referencing "hardware"
Finnish Nouns
hardware, French Nouns
hardware, German Nouns
Hardware, Swedish Nouns
hårdvara, Hungarian Nouns
hardver.