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hard:

The adj hard has 12 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)

1. (37) difficult, hard -- (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"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?")
2. (20) hard -- (dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";)
3. (15) hard -- (resisting weight or pressure)
4. (5) hard, knockout, severe -- (very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow")
5. (3) arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome -- (characterized by 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")
6. unvoiced, voiceless, surd, hard -- (produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'")
7. hard, concentrated -- ((of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source)
8. hard -- ((of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants")
9. intemperate, hard, heavy -- (given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker")
10. hard, strong -- (being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor")
11. hard, tough -- (unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break")
12. hard -- (dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before")

The adv hard has 10 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)

1. (12) hard -- (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. (3) hard, firmly -- (with firmness; "held hard to the railing")
3. (1) hard -- (earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused")
4. (1) hard, severely -- (causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure")
5. (1) hard -- (slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard")
6. heavily, intemperately, hard -- (indulging excessively; "he drank heavily")
7. hard -- (into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours")
8. hard -- (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. hard -- (with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard")
10. hard -- (to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left")

find:

The noun find has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)

1. discovery, breakthrough, find -- (a productive insight)
2. discovery, find, uncovering -- (the act of discovering something)

The verb find has 16 senses (first 13 from tagged texts)

1. (159) find, happen, chance, bump, encounter -- (come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day")
2. (141) detect, observe, find, discover, notice -- (discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint")
3. (86) find, regain -- (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!")
4. (57) determine, find, find out, ascertain -- (establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize")
5. (57) find, feel -- (come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining")
6. (45) witness, find, see -- (perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results")
7. (41) line up, get hold, come up, find -- (get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter")
8. (34) discover, find -- (make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle")
9. (29) discover, find -- (make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover")
10. (16) find -- (obtain through effort or management; "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college")
11. (16) rule, find -- (decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty")
12. (13) receive, get, find, obtain, incur -- (receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions")
13. (11) find -- (perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; "I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room")
14. recover, retrieve, find, regain -- (get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly")
15. find -- (succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark")
16. find oneself, find -- (accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself")

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