hardbackn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈhɑːdbak/, U.S.

/ˈhɑrdˌbæk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hard adj., back n.¹

Etymology: < hard adj. + back n.¹

A. n.

a. Originally Caribbean. A beetle; esp. a flying beetle with hard wing cases. Also more fully hardback beetle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > member of (beetle)

beetlea800

buddea1200

scarbot14..

escharbon1480

clock1568

black-bob1742

hardback1750

coleopter1860

Coleoptera1875

1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 82 The Hardback. This fly is about half an inch long..Its membranaceous wings are defended with sheaths or shell-wings.

1837 A. Halliday W. Indies xiii. 225 Nov. 30th, 1834,—About seven o'clock this evening, during a heavy shower, with a strong breeze from the east, the windows were nearly broken in by a flight of beetles, called here the ‘Hard-back’.

1958 J. Carew Wild Coast ii. 22 Hector..watched a hardback beetle crawling up the wall... ‘Boy, if you kill all the hardbacks that come in here you will make a mess of my clean floor.’

1967 New World Q. 3 101/2 Like the hard-back beetles which hurled themselves with suicidal force against the walls of the house at night, those menacing silver shapes [sc. planes] would hurl themselves..onto the land.

2012 N. Neal Gardener's Guide Trop. Plants 31 The adult ladybird beetle is a red-orange, round, hardback beetle with lots of spots.

†b. An armoured catfish, Callichthys callichthys (family Callichthyidae), of rivers in South America; = hassar n. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Siluriformes (catfish) > [noun] > member of family Callichthyidae

hassar1828

hardback1841

walking fish1885

1841 R. H. Schomburgk Nat. Hist. Fishes Guiana (Naturalist's Libr.: Ichthyol. III) I. 114 Fish are generally accused of having no attachments for their offspring... There are, however, exceptions, and among these belongs the fish which is known at the coast of Guiana under the name of hassar or hardback (Callichthys subulatus..).

1883 J. G. Wood in Sunday Mag. Nov. 676/2 Many of these rivers are inhabited by a fish (Callichthys) popularly called the Hassar or Hardback.

a. in hardback: (of a book) bound in stiff covers. Cf. hardcover n. 1.

ΚΠ

1902 Assembly Herald (N.Y.) Aug. 310/1 Number of Volumes of the Laos Scriptures in Hard Back..82 copies.

1964 Kiplinger Mag. Oct. 6/2 Both are excellent guides, available in hardback and paperback.

2012 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Feb. a22 The library had its copy bound in hardback, to minimize the wear and tear.

b. A book bound in stiff covers. Cf. hardcover n. 2.Contrasted with paperback n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > kind of book > book of specific form or colour > [noun] > with specific type of back or cover

blue book1633

green book1798

paperback1843

paper cover1843

yellowback1859

flat-back1888

greenback1893

paperbound1933

softback1951

hardback1953

hardcover1953

pocketbook1953

softcover1953

trade paperback1960

1953 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 24 Oct. 29/3 The contributing authors are men whose books, paperbound and hardbacks together, have sold many millions.

1976 G. W. Healy Lifetime on Deadline ii. 34 I wrote three hardbacks that were turned into paperbacks.

2011 Fortean Times Mar. 64/2 This glossy hardback looks like a coffee-table cash-in.

B. adj. (attributive).

1. Designating a stiff cover used as a book binding, or a binding having such a cover.

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > [adjective]

full-bound1705

super-extra1774

half-bound1775

Etruscan1792

antique1794

Russia-bound1808

vellum-bound1836

vellum-covered1836

quarter-bound1842

cloth-bound1860

limp1863

cottage1874

monastic1880

parchment-bound1881

yapped1882

all along1888

Grolieresque1889

Maioli1890

perfect1890

treed calf1892

Lyonnais1893

hardback1894

dos-à-dos1952

perfect bound1960

spiral-bound1961

spiral1977

1894 N. Amer. 28 Apr. 4 Third-class matter, because a book has a superior or hard-back binding, is rated at eight cents a pound.

1955 Jet 13 Oct. 46 Her first book, The Street, has sold over 50,000 copies in hard back cover.

2009 T. Merrill Winkies, Toilets & Holy Places iv. 19 To ease the load, we cut the hardback covers off the textbooks.

2. Of a book: bound in stiff covers; hardbacked. Cf. hardcover adj. 1.Contrasted with paperback adj. 1 or softback adj. 2

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society > communication > book > kind of book > book of specific form or colour > [adjective] > having specific type of cover > hard

hard-covered1820

boarded1842

casebound1890

hardback1904

hardbacked1906

hardbound1906

hard-shelled1907

hardcover1939

hard-cased1951

1904 Homestead (Des Moines, Iowa) 7 Apr. 18/3 I have a well bound, hard back book, about eight by ten inches, which has about 100 pages and cost ten cents.

1953 N.Y. Times 20 Dec. 8/1 The shop is called City Lights Pocket Book-shop and they won't handle a hard-back book if you pay them.

1986 New Yorker 21 July 27/2 I found..a hardback copy..bookmarked halfway.

2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Aug. b9/1 I had amassed hundreds of paperback and hardback books.

3. Of or relating to a hardbacked book or hardbacked books.

ΚΠ

1958 Economist 8 Nov. Suppl. 1/1 The retailer's margin on paperbacks is just as profitable as on hardbacks... A hardback order may well be topped up with a couple of ‘quality paperbacks’.

1960 Times 3 Feb. 17/4 The big paperback publishers are not hardback publishers but specialists in what is virtually a new genre.

1984 Listener 6 Dec. 26/3 The hardback edition only is credited in reviews.

2009 Private Eye 1 May 24/3 The Sunday Telegraph..averages only four hardback reviews per issue.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hardback
释义	hardbackn.adj. Brit. /ˈhɑːdbak/, U.S. /ˈhɑrdˌbæk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hard adj., back n.¹ Etymology: < hard adj. + back n.¹ A. n. 1. a. Originally Caribbean. A beetle; esp. a flying beetle with hard wing cases. Also more fully hardback beetle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > member of (beetle) beetlea800 buddea1200 scarbot14.. escharbon1480 clock1568 black-bob1742 hardback1750 coleopter1860 Coleoptera1875 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 82 The Hardback. This fly is about half an inch long..Its membranaceous wings are defended with sheaths or shell-wings. 1837 A. Halliday W. Indies xiii. 225 Nov. 30th, 1834,—About seven o'clock this evening, during a heavy shower, with a strong breeze from the east, the windows were nearly broken in by a flight of beetles, called here the ‘Hard-back’. 1958 J. Carew Wild Coast ii. 22 Hector..watched a hardback beetle crawling up the wall... ‘Boy, if you kill all the hardbacks that come in here you will make a mess of my clean floor.’ 1967 New World Q. 3 101/2 Like the hard-back beetles which hurled themselves with suicidal force against the walls of the house at night, those menacing silver shapes [sc. planes] would hurl themselves..onto the land. 2012 N. Neal Gardener's Guide Trop. Plants 31 The adult ladybird beetle is a red-orange, round, hardback beetle with lots of spots. †b. An armoured catfish, Callichthys callichthys (family Callichthyidae), of rivers in South America; = hassar n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Siluriformes (catfish) > [noun] > member of family Callichthyidae hassar1828 hardback1841 walking fish1885 1841 R. H. Schomburgk Nat. Hist. Fishes Guiana (Naturalist's Libr.: Ichthyol. III) I. 114 Fish are generally accused of having no attachments for their offspring... There are, however, exceptions, and among these belongs the fish which is known at the coast of Guiana under the name of hassar or hardback (Callichthys subulatus..). 1883 J. G. Wood in Sunday Mag. Nov. 676/2 Many of these rivers are inhabited by a fish (Callichthys) popularly called the Hassar or Hardback. 2. a. in hardback: (of a book) bound in stiff covers. Cf. hardcover n. 1. ΚΠ 1902 Assembly Herald (N.Y.) Aug. 310/1 Number of Volumes of the Laos Scriptures in Hard Back..82 copies. 1964 Kiplinger Mag. Oct. 6/2 Both are excellent guides, available in hardback and paperback. 2012 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Feb. a22 The library had its copy bound in hardback, to minimize the wear and tear. b. A book bound in stiff covers. Cf. hardcover n. 2.Contrasted with paperback n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > book of specific form or colour > [noun] > with specific type of back or cover blue book1633 green book1798 paperback1843 paper cover1843 yellowback1859 flat-back1888 greenback1893 paperbound1933 softback1951 hardback1953 hardcover1953 pocketbook1953 softcover1953 trade paperback1960 1953 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 24 Oct. 29/3 The contributing authors are men whose books, paperbound and hardbacks together, have sold many millions. 1976 G. W. Healy Lifetime on Deadline ii. 34 I wrote three hardbacks that were turned into paperbacks. 2011 Fortean Times Mar. 64/2 This glossy hardback looks like a coffee-table cash-in. B. adj. (attributive). 1. Designating a stiff cover used as a book binding, or a binding having such a cover. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > [adjective] full-bound1705 super-extra1774 half-bound1775 Etruscan1792 antique1794 Russia-bound1808 vellum-bound1836 vellum-covered1836 quarter-bound1842 cloth-bound1860 limp1863 cottage1874 monastic1880 parchment-bound1881 yapped1882 all along1888 Grolieresque1889 Maioli1890 perfect1890 treed calf1892 Lyonnais1893 hardback1894 dos-à-dos1952 perfect bound1960 spiral-bound1961 spiral1977 1894 N. Amer. 28 Apr. 4 Third-class matter, because a book has a superior or hard-back binding, is rated at eight cents a pound. 1955 Jet 13 Oct. 46 Her first book, The Street, has sold over 50,000 copies in hard back cover. 2009 T. Merrill Winkies, Toilets & Holy Places iv. 19 To ease the load, we cut the hardback covers off the textbooks. 2. Of a book: bound in stiff covers; hardbacked. Cf. hardcover adj. 1.Contrasted with paperback adj. 1 or softback adj. 2 ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > book of specific form or colour > [adjective] > having specific type of cover > hard hard-covered1820 boarded1842 casebound1890 hardback1904 hardbacked1906 hardbound1906 hard-shelled1907 hardcover1939 hard-cased1951 1904 Homestead (Des Moines, Iowa) 7 Apr. 18/3 I have a well bound, hard back book, about eight by ten inches, which has about 100 pages and cost ten cents. 1953 N.Y. Times 20 Dec. 8/1 The shop is called City Lights Pocket Book-shop and they won't handle a hard-back book if you pay them. 1986 New Yorker 21 July 27/2 I found..a hardback copy..bookmarked halfway. 2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Aug. b9/1 I had amassed hundreds of paperback and hardback books. 3. Of or relating to a hardbacked book or hardbacked books. ΚΠ 1958 Economist 8 Nov. Suppl. 1/1 The retailer's margin on paperbacks is just as profitable as on hardbacks... A hardback order may well be topped up with a couple of ‘quality paperbacks’. 1960 Times 3 Feb. 17/4 The big paperback publishers are not hardback publishers but specialists in what is virtually a new genre. 1984 Listener 6 Dec. 26/3 The hardback edition only is credited in reviews. 2009 Private Eye 1 May 24/3 The Sunday Telegraph..averages only four hardback reviews per issue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1750
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