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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hardware
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
computer hardware/equipment (=machines and equipment, not programs)
▪ a shop that sells computer equipment
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ They gain wide experience of different types of hardware and many varied programming languages.
▪ Two developments point the way to a very different hardware future.
military
▪ It has begun publishing an annual report providing for the first time a rough indication of how much military hardware Britain exports.
▪ Each acquisition of military hardware and each movement of military forces seems to fuel GreekTurkish suspicions and inflame tensions.
▪ There were also queries over the battle-worthiness of aircraft and other major military hardware due to maintenance backlogs and shortages of spares.
▪ What the officials of these states ignore is that the age of fetishism is over, and importing military hardware increases dependence.
▪ A first step must be to restrict any military hardware sales to defensive weapons.
▪ Modern technology appears in the form of military hardware and training of limited utility to the country.
▪ Meanwhile, Dudayev had ordered a general mobilization, and claimed a share of Soviet military hardware.
▪ Others are military hardware enthusiasts whose zest for detail has been rewarded with a high-profile job.
necessary
▪ Both components will fit directly on to the board without any necessary extra hardware being required.
new
▪ But another factor is that instruction manuals that usually accompany new computer hardware and software are difficult to understand.
▪ The enhancements include support for new hardware, new printers and functional enhancements, which can be added without reinstalling 3.2.0.
other
▪ There were also queries over the battle-worthiness of aircraft and other major military hardware due to maintenance backlogs and shortages of spares.
▪ However the chips on some machines may be located under disk drives or power supplies or other lumps of hardware.
▪ Being mostly upright, plants can conceal filter tubes, airlines, heater wires and other hardware.
▪ The same is true of the other hardware manufacturers, with varying degrees of modification.
▪ UniDirect hopes to duplicate the formula with other hardware vendors.
▪ The libraries run initially on networks of Sparcstations and are being ported to other hardware.
special
▪ It runs well on all graphics adapter types and has no special hardware requirements.
▪ Another example of special hardware is Texas Instruments' multiprocessor Odyssey Board.
▪ Unlike early game machine ports, these three titles need no special hardware.
■ NOUN
business
▪ Next refused to comment on reports that it might abandon its hardware business altogether.
company
▪ Most of the top 10 hardware companies suffered from the recession.
▪ Many software and hardware companies enjoyed rapid expansion before the bubble burst and market growth slowed.
▪ Well, they replied, sometimes the hardware companies modify it.
▪ At first, Jobs conceived Next as a hardware company that would make computer workstations for scientists and educators.
▪ He began his career as a traveling salesman for a hardware company.
computer
▪ The decision he reached was that existing computer hardware was not sufficiently powerful to cope with the problem.
▪ Repairs to embassy buildings and the replacement of outdated computer hardware are said to be long overdue.
▪ Managers have probably sanctioned the purchase of computer hardware and software but have not involved themselves with their use.
▪ Berg had, but the computer hardware to manage such complex simulations was extremely expensive and the existing software was primitive.
▪ As part of this process computer hardware requirements at Police Headquarters to assist with enforcement policy and personnel will be reviewed.
▪ But another factor is that instruction manuals that usually accompany new computer hardware and software are difficult to understand.
▪ The belief that it would be possible to maintain old computer hardware in operational order for use by future historians is utopian.
design
▪ They have been applied to evolving software, hardware designs, chemical structures, music, pictures and video.
▪ Instead of merely simulating parallelism, it is inherent in the hardware design.
▪ In any case, Next will sell its hardware design centre and factory in Fremont, California.
▪ These courses are also a preparation for work at the hardware/software interface and provide the potential for work in hardware design.
manufacturer
▪ It has important implications for hardware manufacturers too.
▪ The flocking rules were discovered by Craig Reynolds, a computer scientist working at Symbolics, a graphics hardware manufacturer.
▪ Old style hardware manufacturers have suffered.
▪ The same is true of the other hardware manufacturers, with varying degrees of modification.
▪ Using workflow, one hardware manufacturer managed to cut the time taken to process an invoice from six weeks to three days.
platform
▪ For reference purposes, multimedia implies decisions about support for specific hardware platforms.
▪ It will be the first time the leading graphics are available on the leading hardware platform.
▪ The choice of package, in turn, will determine what hardware platform is going to be most appropriate.
sale
▪ So they often set up subsidiaries, which earned maintenance revenues on the back of mainstream hardware sales.
▪ Analysts had expected hardware sales to rise as much as 18 percent to $ 12. 5 billion.
▪ A first step must be to restrict any military hardware sales to defensive weapons.
▪ He added, however, that hardware sales revenue this year would be fairly static as lower prices offset higher volume.
shop
▪ It comes in various sizes of large sheets as well as the small sizes available in hardware shops.
▪ Ant: The hardware shop round the corner, it was dead cheap.
▪ Enter the hardware shop and buy the wrench, exit and walk over to the fire hydrant.
▪ He made a number of further purchases at a confectioner's, a hardware shop and a luggage emporium.
▪ Stainex is available from Homebase and Co-op stores and good hardware shops, price £2.54.
▪ The local hardware shop proprietor was perhaps not a little alarmed when asked to supply 15 broomsticks before October 31st!
▪ Small cafes and restaurants ring the quayside; grocery and hardware shops are scattered around.
▪ They had bought the acid liquid from a hardware shop carefully choosing the most caustic brand available.
store
▪ She had two rooms above a hardware store in Venus.
▪ Rioters broke into hardware stores and armed themselves, demolished black businesses, and even robbed stores kept by white men.
▪ It was sub-Post Office, supermarket, hardware store, clothes shop, newsagent's and chemist's packed into one room.
▪ As it turns out, Heflin is not the brightest bulb in the hardware store.
▪ You also need brushes which you can buy from a hardware store.
▪ Not that it was a completely wasted trip, what with the hardware store right next door.
▪ He believes they were bought from a camping or hardware store in the week leading up to April 27.
system
▪ Both have a responsibility for design, the manager, of people systems, and the engineer, of hardware systems.
▪ We saw some of these tactics directed against us when we were a hardware systems company.
▪ However, just as hardware systems are dominated by engineering thinking, macro-systems are dominated by economic thinking.
▪ The wide range of options includes software development, hardware systems, and business and management computing.
▪ Agreed to evaluate hardware systems up to the value of £7k, possibly to tie in with image analysis. 11.
unix
▪ Users receive object code versions of SNAP-IX pre-built for their chosen Unix hardware, along with services and support.
▪ What's on offer will include information on Unix hardware and software products, service providers, systems integrators and consulting organisations.
▪ The performance of graphical Windows programs should be enhanced by the Unix hardware.
▪ The innovation once focused around Unix hardware vendors is slipping towards the personal computer.
vendors
▪ A list of 80 plus independent software and hardware vendors also registered support.
▪ UniDirect hopes to duplicate the formula with other hardware vendors.
▪ The innovation once focused around Unix hardware vendors is slipping towards the personal computer.
■ VERB
build
▪ The latter builds decisions into the hardware and software based on his knowledge of the limitations of the mechanisms.
▪ He also wants to spur engineers to build better hardware and encourage greater funding for its infrastructure.
▪ S.-#built hardware if necessary.
▪ Manufacturers responded by building cheaper modem hardware, and the rest is history.
buy
▪ Sets of bars and rollers can be bought from hardware stores for the heaviest furniture and kitchen equipment.
▪ She was working hard because she had to pay off the loan she used to buy the hardware store.
▪ You also need brushes which you can buy from a hardware store.
▪ They can be bought at most large hardware stores and fixed by a handyman.
implement
▪ It may be uneconomic or too inflexible to implement in hardware all of a computer's instruction set.
▪ Generally, this means implementing in hardware, though some implementations we mention at the end of this chapter are actually biological.
▪ Although conceptually clear, the method is not easy to implement with current hardware.
include
▪ What's on offer will include information on Unix hardware and software products, service providers, systems integrators and consulting organisations.
▪ The data backup and recovery includes all required hardware, software and associated maintenance.
▪ It apparently includes compilers, but hardware support is slim and they'd like better graphics.
▪ The enhancements include support for new hardware, new printers and functional enhancements, which can be added without reinstalling 3.2.0.
▪ The wide range of options includes software development, hardware systems, and business and management computing.
▪ Additional equipment includes communications hardware, scanners and a plotter.
install
▪ The new unit will offer services even where the customer has decided to install all non-IBM hardware.
provide
▪ Alternatively, countries such as Britain could provide space hardware or equipment for ground stations.
▪ Finally, the Workstation Auditing Module tracks equipment configuration, and also provides software and hardware inventory features.
▪ But Britain is likely to press for a deal under which its own industry provides hardware for the satellites.
▪ It uses Postscript as the transfer format, thus providing hardware independence.
▪ One of the goals of Whistler is to provide hardware and software with a single version of Windows to work with.
▪ Because of this close association between stacks and subroutine linkage, some computers provide hardware stacks to deal with subroutine calls and returns.
require
▪ Higher level upgrades require a hardware change accomplished via a module swap programme.
▪ These all required expensive hardware, and ate up huge gobs of memory.
▪ Some neural network implementations require this special-purpose hardware.
▪ Both films employ innovative computer-generated graphics that required staggering outlays in hardware.
▪ The data backup and recovery includes all required hardware, software and associated maintenance.
run
▪ Fortunately the process is explicitly parallel and were it to be run on multiprocessor hardware then there could be substantial speed-up.
▪ So Etak stopped making Navigators and instead opted to sell a software map which runs on hardware made by other firms.
sell
▪ It generates interest in Apple and it sells hardware.
▪ Tandem, like other hardware-based firms, now needed software expertise to sell its hardware.
▪ He also owned a shop on the main street, selling hardware and tinned foods and some garden produce.
▪ The pencils are sold in hardware and building supply stores.
▪ In any case, Next will sell its hardware design centre and factory in Fremont, California.
▪ Sears currently has four such stores that sell furniture, hardware, automotive parts and appliances.
supply
▪ The arrangement sprang out of Compaq winning a contract to supply hardware, which was used to manage the 1991 national elections.
▪ Hewlett-Packard Co., which is supplying the hardware to Ford, provides computers only to employees who need them for work.
use
▪ Participants will create and print a newsletter using IBM-compatible hardware and Xywrite and Ventura programmes.
▪ They can be used on Sega hardware but are half the price.
▪ The field could also be used to list all hardware on which the module is dependent for its operation.
▪ This is because astronomical observations using the hardware can take place only at certain times of the year.
▪ An important factor here will be the school librarian's experience of using the hardware and software.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The company has spent millions of dollars replacing outdated computer hardware.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A final requirement is switching hardware and software to move huge amounts of data effortlessly over such a complex network.
▪ All access devices need not be hardware based, moreover.
▪ Higher level upgrades require a hardware change accomplished via a module swap programme.
▪ It has begun publishing an annual report providing for the first time a rough indication of how much military hardware Britain exports.
▪ It is not always easy to separate hardware and software and this fact has been demonstrated on several occasions in the courts.
▪ It may also be superseded because the hardware is replaced with hardware that is not compatible with the software. 3.
▪ These internal hardware additions are of course very machine-dependent, and those available vary considerably from manufacturer to manufacturer.
▪ Until now, the company has only licensed the technology for use in other firms' hardware and software.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hardware

Hardware \Hard"ware`\ (h[aum]rd"w[^a]r`), n.

  1. Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

  2. Any of the physical objects used in carrying out an activity, in contrast to the knowledge, skill, or theory required to perform the activity; mostly used collectively.

  3. Specifically: (Computers) The sum of all the physical objects, such as the electrical, mechanical, and electronic devices which comprise a computer system; as, the typical PC hardware suite consists of a mainboard and a number of peripherals such as hard drives and speakers, connected by adapter cards, but the input and output from users occurs mostly through the keyboard and monitor; contrasted with software, the programs executed by the computer.

  4. Specifically: (Military) The weapons, transport, and other physical objects used in conducting a war.

  5. (Slang) Weapons, especially handguns, carried on the person; as, check your hardware at the door before entering.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hardware

mid-15c., "small metal goods," from hard + ware (n.). In the sense of "physical components of a computer" it dates from 1947. Hardware store attested by 1789.

Wiktionary
hardware

n. 1 fixture, equipment, tool and device used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store. 2 (context informal English) equipment. 3 (context computing English) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software. 4 (context technology English) Electronic equipment. 5 metal implements. 6 (context slang English) A firearm.

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WordNet
hardware

  1. n. major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile)

  2. instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal [syn: ironware]

  3. (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system [syn: computer hardware] [ant: software]

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Wikipedia
Hardware (comics)

Hardware (real name Curtis Metcalf) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero published by DC Comics. An original character from DC's Milestone Comics imprint, he first appeared in Hardware #1 (February 1993), and was created by Dwayne McDuffie and Denys Cowan.

Hardware (film)

Hardware is a 1990 British-American post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film directed by Richard Stanley and starring Dylan McDermott. Inspired by the short story "Shok!" in 2000 AD, the film depicts the rampage of a self-repairing robot in a post-apocalyptic slum.

Hardware (TV series)

Hardware is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 2003 to 2004. Starring Martin Freeman, it was written and created by Simon Nye, the creator of Men Behaving Badly and directed by Ben Kellett.

The show's opening theme was A Taste of Honey by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass.

Hardware

Hardware may refer to:

  • Household hardware, equipment such as keys, locks, hinges, latches, handles, wire, chains, plumbing, tools, utensils, and machine parts, typically sold in hardware stores
  • Builders hardware, for doors, cabinets, windows, bathrooms, etc.
Hardware (album)

Hardware is the fifth album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus. It did not match the success of their previous album, Metal Rendez-vous, going only Gold in Switzerland. However, the album entered the charts in the US, UK and other European countries.

UK-based company Rock Candy Records reissued the album on CD in 2014.

Hardware (band)

Hardware were a funk supergroup consisting of Buddy Miles, Bootsy Collins and Stevie Salas.

It featured Mudbone Cooper, Bernard Fowler and George Clinton on backing vocals, and was produced by Bill Laswell. The group was originally called The Third Eye, but changed their name due to conflicts with another group. They released one album, entitled Third Eye Open.

Hardware (development cooperation)

In development cooperation jargon, "hardware" and "software" refer to the different aspects of technology transfer. Whilst the hardware refers to the technology itself, software refers to the skills, knowledge and capacity that need to be built up in order to make the transfer of the technology successful.

A third term, "orgware", is emerging to refer to the capacity building of the different institutional actors involved in the adaptation process of a new technology.

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Usage examples of "hardware".

The room was a perfect forest of potential clues, jam-packed with gadgets and hardware that might have some bearing on the case, if only Alvar knew enough about experimental robotics.

Obviously, many of their systems had to be new-construction, but the truth is, that probably at least eighty-five percent of the design was based on existing hardware.

Which meant Technodyne would be able to get a direct look at the latest and best Manty war-fighting hardware.

CHAPTER XV The pity which Jed felt for Phineas Babbitt caused him to keep silent concerning his Thanksgiving evening interview with the hardware dealer.

So, metal detector, inspection by the bored security team with their huge coffee cups, computer turned on, hardware and software check by experts, sniff-over by Clyde the morning dog, trained to detect signature molecules: all standard in biotech now, after some famous incidents of industrial espionage.

Fisk - and the Blowfish and the truck from the hardware store and a Lincoln with two rent-a-dicks all converged on Blue Kills Beach.

Most of the shop sold metalware to islanders, everything from hardware to eggbeaters, sausage grinders to sheet-steel stoves, but one corner was devoted to the mainland trade.

In terms of hardware, Emul and Oozer were now like rusted-out cars with weeds growing in them, like mirrored freeform flowerboxes full of sprouts, like hollow logs covered by the rubbery fungus known as witch ears.

We have material, and manpower, gallons of crew-brain-swarms, software, hardware, greenware, wetware, smallware, largeware, sumware, and noware, all waiting now to merge with you.

But the seconds of inexplicable survival stretched on into minutes while Hoveler kept trying very cleverly and subtly to inflict damage, controlled but irreversible, upon the thinking hardware.

Michael knew that this imagistic room was more securely cloaked than any other in all the world, whether bedded in the hardware of the UN police or the so-called World Government.

Mars, of the hardware that the first explorers of Mars will use, and of the mythology of the Navaho people.

Blair Hardware was personally responsible for the beauty and fertility of Meadowbrook in the summertime.

Daniel Waters died of neurophysiological reaction to some circuitry in the cyber-replacement hardware.

We need to uninstall the software, replace the nonstandard components of the hardware, then reinstall.