hardware
/ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/ noun B2- 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.
- Equipment. · military hardware
- The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc.
- Electronic equipment.
- Metal implements. · The designers have put their logo on the hardware of this bag here.
- A firearm.
- Medals or trophies.
From the library
In the doorway of a darkened hardware store a man leaned, with an unlighted cigar in his mouth.
And in the door of the hardware store the man who had come a thousand miles to fill an appointment, uncertain almost to absurdity, with the friend of his youth, smoked his cigar and waited.
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