The difference between Hard and Simple

When used as nouns, hard means a firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water, whereas simple means a herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.

When used as adjectives, hard means having a severe property, whereas simple means uncomplicated.

Hard is also adverb with the meaning: with much force or effort.

Simple is also verb with the meaning: to gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.

check bellow for the other definitions of Hard and Simple

  1. Hard as an adjective (of material or fluid):

    Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. Resistant to pressure. Strong. High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium. Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).

    Examples:

    "This bread is so stale and hard, I can barely cut it."

  2. Hard as an adjective (personal or social):

    Having a severe property; presenting difficulty. Requiring a lot of effort to do or understand. Demanding a lot of effort to endure. Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal. Difficult to resist or control; powerful.

    Examples:

    "a hard problem"

    "a hard life"

    "a hard master;  a hard heart;  hard words;  a hard character"

    "don't be so hard on yourself"

  3. Hard as an adjective:

    Unquestionable.

    Examples:

    "'hard evidence"

  4. Hard as an adjective (of a road intersection):

    Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.

    Examples:

    "At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left."

  5. Hard as an adjective (slang, vulgar, of a [[male]]):

    Sexually aroused.

    Examples:

    "I got so hard watching two hot guys wrestle each other on the beach."

  6. Hard as an adjective (bodybuilding):

    Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.

  7. Hard as an adjective (phonetics, uncomparable):

    Plosive. Unvoiced Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized

    Examples:

    "There is a hard ''c'' in "clock" and a soft ''c'' in "centre"."

    "'Hard ''k'', ''t'', ''s'', ''ch'', as distinguished from soft, ''g'', ''d'', ''z'', ''j''."

    "The letter m ru ж in Russian is always hard."

  8. Hard as an adjective (arts):

    Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment. Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition. Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.

  9. Hard as an adjective (uncomparable):

    In the form of a hard copy.

    Examples:

    "We need both a digital archive and a hard archive."

  1. Hard as an adverb (manner):

    With much force or effort.

    Examples:

    "He hit the puck hard up the ice."

    "They worked hard all week."

    "At the intersection, bear hard left."

    "The recession hit them especially hard."

    "Think hard about your choices."

  2. Hard as an adverb (manner):

    With difficulty.

    Examples:

    "His degree was hard earned."

    "The vehicle moves hard."

  3. Hard as an adverb (obsolete):

    So as to raise difficulties.

  4. Hard as an adverb (manner):

    Compactly.

    Examples:

    "The lake had finally frozen hard."

  5. Hard as an adverb (now, archaic):

    Near, close.

  1. Hard as a noun (countable, nautical):

    A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.

  2. Hard as a noun (uncountable, drugs, colloquial, slang):

    crack cocaine.

  3. Hard as a noun (motorsports):

  1. Simple as an adjective:

    Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.

  2. Simple as an adjective:

    Without ornamentation; plain.

  3. Simple as an adjective:

    Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.

  4. Simple as an adjective:

    Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.

  5. Simple as an adjective (now, rare):

    Trivial; insignificant.

  6. Simple as an adjective (now, colloquial):

    Feeble-minded; foolish.

  7. Simple as an adjective (technical):

    Structurally uncomplicated. Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded. Of a group: having no normal subgroup. Not compound, but possibly lobed. Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound. Homogenous.

    Examples:

    "a simple ascidian"

  8. Simple as an adjective (obsolete):

    Mere; not other than; being only.

  1. Simple as a noun (medicine):

    A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.

  2. Simple as a noun (obsolete):

    A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.

  3. Simple as a noun (logic):

    A simple or atomic proposition.

  4. Simple as a noun (obsolete):

    Something not mixed or compounded.

  5. Simple as a noun (weaving):

    A drawloom.

  6. Simple as a noun (weaving):

    Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.

  7. Simple as a noun (Roman Catholic):

    A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

  1. Simple as a verb (transitive, intransitive, archaic):

    To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.

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