Picture the drawers of a small hardware shop: nails, hinges, screws, hammers. Heavy, metal, made to be held. hardware is the word for the hard, physical stuff you can drop on your foot — which is exactly why, when computers arrived, the word was borrowed for the parts you can touch, as opposed to the software you cannot.
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原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hardwarenoun/ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/
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Fixtures, equipment, fasteners, tools, and devices 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.
- He needed a hammer, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware, so he went to the hardware store.
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informalEquipment.
- military hardware
- 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.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc.
- Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesElectronic equipment.
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Metal implements.
- The designers have put their logo on the hardware of this bag here.
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slangA firearm.
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slangMedals or trophies.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- hardware store
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。