hw

Noun

homework (usually uncountable, plural homeworks)

1. (usually) Exercises assigned by a teacher to a student which review concepts studied in class.
   • You must do your homework before you can watch television.
   1. (broadly, usually) Something which one is encouraged to learn or study on one's own.
      • The speaker had certainly done his homework before delivering the lecture.
2. (archaic, literally, usually) Any work that is done at home; housework.
   • Hatch perceived homework to be one tool—along with various workfare schemes and private sector training programs—that would take women off welfare and make poor women "independent."1989, Eileen Boris, Cynthia R. Daniels, Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 241
3. (euphemistic, slang, usually) Sexual intercourse.
   • My wife and I want a kid, and we do plenty of homework, but goddamn it, Dutch, I just can't connect.1933, James T. Farrell, Gas-House McGinty, page 186

   Synonyms:

   sex, sex act, sexual act

4. (usually) Tasks assigned by a dominant for a submissive to perform when they are physically away from their dominant or otherwise free.

Noun

hardware (uncountable)

1. 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.
2. (informal) Equipment.
   • military hardware
3. The 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.1952, R.L. Michaelson, “Binary Arithmetic”, in The Incorporated Statistician, volume 3, number 1 (Feb. 1952), pages 35–40
4. Electronic equipment.
5. Metal implements.
   • The designers have put their logo on the hardware of this bag here.
6. (slang) A firearm.

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