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Meaning of "hard drug" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HARD DRUG

hard drug  [hɑːd drʌɡ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HARD DRUG

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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hard drug is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HARD DRUG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hard drug in the English dictionary

The definition of hard drug in the dictionary is a strong, usually illegal, drug which is likely to cause addiction.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HARD DRUG


antidrug
ˌæntɪˈdrʌɡ
bedrug
bɪˈdrʌɡ
drug
drʌɡ
multidrug
ˈmʌltɪˌdrʌɡ
nondrug
ˌnɒnˈdrʌɡ
prodrug
ˈprəʊˌdrʌɡ
rug
rʌɡ
shrug
ʃrʌɡ
sprug
sprʌɡ
trug
trʌɡ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HARD DRUG

hard coal
hard copy
hard core
hard court
hard currency
hard disk
hard disk drive
hard doer
hard done by
hard drive
hard feeling
hard feelings
hard fern
hard grass
hard hat
hard hitter
hard labour
hard landing
hard left
hard lens

WORDS THAT END LIKE HARD DRUG

anticancer drug
class A drug
class B drug
class C drug
controlled drug
designer drug
ethical drug
fertility drug
gateway drug
generic drug
miracle drug
performance-enhancing drug
poly-drug
recreational drug
smart drug
soft drug
sulfa drug
sulpha drug
truth drug
wonder drug

Synonyms and antonyms of hard drug in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hard drug» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HARD DRUG

Find out the translation of hard drug to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hard drug from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hard drug» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

硬毒品
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

droga dura
570 millions of speakers

English

hard drug
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कठिन दवा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المخدرات الصلبة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

трудно наркотиков
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

droga pesada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হার্ড ড্রাগ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

drogue dure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dadah keras
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

harte Droge
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハードドラッグ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하드 약물
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hard obat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuốc cứng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடின மருந்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हार्ड औषध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sert uyuşturucu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

droga pesante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

twarde narkotyki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

важко наркотиків
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de droguri greu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκληρά ναρκωτικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

harde dwelms
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hård drogen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hardt narkotika
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hard drug

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD DRUG»

The term «hard drug» is normally little used and occupies the 115.725 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD DRUG» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hard drug» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hard drug» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hard drug

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARD DRUG»

Discover the use of hard drug in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hard drug and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Drug Testing Technology: Assessment of Field Applications
Although a youth was classified in the hard group based on use of at least one hard drug, we found that the hard group had considerable experience with multiple hard drugs. Lifetime self-reported use rates were high for cocaine/crack ( 32 ...
Tom Mieczkowski, 1999
2
Stages and Pathways of Drug Involvement: Examining the ...
Thus, even this household survey oversample from communities where drug abuse was commonplace failed to access persons or obtain self-disclosures of regular hard drug use or arrest. Compared to the NHSDA inner-city New York hard ...
Denise B. Kandel, 2002
3
Geography and Drug Addiction
Hard drug use remains a coastal phenomenon, as it was with marijuana, with an additional hot spot located in Oklahoma. High rates of “hard drug” use for youth 12–17 are observed in most of Montana; in a number of Southeastern states ...
Yonette F. Thomas, Douglas Richardson, Ivan Cheung, 2008
4
Drug Use, Policy, and Management
It was found that where marijuana was more available — the states that had decriminalized — hard drug abuse as measured by emergency room episodes decreased. From the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine's 1999  ...
Richard Isralowitz, 2002
5
An Introduction to Drug Design
Thus a hard drug means a compound which is hard to metabolise and is non- metabolisable, whereas a soft drug means a compound which is easily metabolised. One may define a soft drug. 58 An Introduction to Drug Design B Soft Drugs ...
S. N. Pandeya, J. R. Dimmock, 1997
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Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence
Many studies show that hard drug users smoke marijuana first. The stereotyped progression of the use of drugs probably begins with caffeine, but no data address this drug's potential as a gateway. Most research suggests that adolescents first ...
Mitch Earleywine, 2002
7
Socialization in Drug Abuse
Klein and Phillips (1968) note a movement, not from soft to hard drugs, but from hard to soft ones, due, they contend, to the increasing visibility of the negative effects of hard-drug use and increased societal repression of hard drug use. Second ...
Robert H. Coombs, Lincoln J. Fry, Patricia G. Lewis, 1976
8
Elaborating the Relationship Between Age and HIV Risk ...
The chi-square analysis indicates that the drug use patterns, race/ethnicity, and level of education of drug users in this sample were significantly different based on age of first hard drug use, for both men and women. The proportion of ...
Michele Marie Wood, 2008
9
Substance Abuse: A Global View
In Holland, the average age of the hard-drug addict is thirty-six years. The data also indicate that there were fewer young narcotic addicts in the Netherlands, in the year 2000, than in 1980 (Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports,  ...
Andrew L. Cherry, Mary E. Dillon, Douglas Rugh, 2002
10
Current Medicinal Chemistry
The general metabolic pathway for a traditional drug, termed here as hard drug, is presented in Fig. (1). The human body has developed defense mechanisms to detoxify xenobiotics. The biotransformation of a xenobiotic yields metabolites ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARD DRUG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hard drug is used in the context of the following news items.
1
That Sugary Drink May be Killing You - CityWatch
Studies show that sugar lights up the same parts of the brain lit up with hard drug use. With much less education around the dangers of sugar, ... «City Watch, Jul 15»
2
The Loathsome Yet Riveting Art of Being Donald Trump - Reason.com
(Like a die-hard drug warrior, the borderista thinks a thriving black market is a sign that the government isn't policing hard enough.) They have ... «Reason, Jul 15»
3
The Loathsome Yet Riveting Art of Being Donald Trump
(Like a die-hard drug warrior, the borderista thinks a thriving black market is a sign that the government isn't policing hard enough.) They have ... «Reason, Jul 15»
4
Pakistani Teenager Jailed In Nigeria For Committing This Offence
“And I also order that the imported hard drug should be destroyed 30 days after this ruling if no appeal is lodged.” READ ALSO: Kashamu Buruji ... «NAIJ.COM, Jul 15»
5
Methadone: Held captive by liquid handcuffs
Her dark hair is greying around the sides of her head, and she wears the experiences of the last three decades of hard drug use around her ... «Taranaki Daily News, Jul 15»
6
Dulce Gutierrez
... it's important for our city officials to stress other developing problems — such as hard drug abuse. Yakima needs to begin a plan to tackle the ... «Yakima Herald-Republic, Jul 15»
7
Businessman gets 15-year jail term for dealing in hard drug
He was charged and arraigned before the Justice Idris led-court on one count charge of unauthorized and unlawful dealing in hard drug. «The Guardian Nigeria, Jul 15»
8
Evolve exposes drug-testing dilemma
“Just because a hard drug is pure, in no way does that mean it is safe.” ... think the drug testing would have promoted hard drug use at Evolve. «TheChronicleHerald.ca, Jul 15»
9
DRUG TRAFFICKING: Court Jails Man 15 Years
Justice Idris said: “I show no mercy for the people who deliberately join in tarnishing the image of the country, who import and export hard drug ... «Leadership Newspapers, Jul 15»
10
Mombasa lobbyists call for anti-hard drugs campaign
... Lule urged the region's political leadership to push the National government to launch an anti-hard drug campaign similar to the ongoing one ... «K24 TV, Jul 15»

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