Hardware
Hardware noun - Items needed for the performance of a task or activity.
Usage example: gathered together the hardware needed to set up a first aid station at the finish line for the marathon
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Synonyms for Hardware
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How words are described
| old | old hardware | old stuff |
| expensive | expensive hardware | expensive stuff |
| physical | physical hardware | physical stuff |
| special | special hardware | special stuff |
| Other adjectives: best, better, similar, alien, standard, free, small, actual, real, serious, important, new, useful, advanced, extra, various, older, modern. | ||
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- ADK's Crush Roller (also known as Make Trax) similarly switched picking/eating stuff up to laying stuff down, and originally ran on an arcade board that cloned the Pac-Man hardware.
Source: Follow The Leader / Video Games -
Then there is the time when he MacGyvers a bunch of stuff from the hardware store and builds a tranquilizer nailgun, a makeshift taser, a taser-glove, and Christmas-ornament flashbangs.
Source: Film / Iron Man 3 - If these guys can get ahold of such powerful and expensive hardware, you'd think they'd make more money and attract less heat from simply fencing the stuff than they would from robbing a bank with it.
Source: Offscreen Villain Dark Matter
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Stuff and Hardware. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hardware/stuff
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