| 单词 | hammer |
| 释义 | hammer (once / 305 pages) 1nv 2n A hammer is a tool you can use to drive nails into wood or other materials. You'll find a hammer in just about any toolbox, since it's useful for hanging pictures, making repairs, or breaking things apart. When you hit a nail again and again with a hammer, you hammer it. Other kinds of hammers include the part of a gun that swings forcefully when the trigger is pulled; the padded striker in a piano that hits a string when a note is played; and a Marvel Comics supervillain whose partner in crime is named Anvil. There's also the hammerhead shark, named for the odd, hammer-like shape of its head. WORD FAMILYhammer: hammered, hammering, hammers+/hammering: hammerings USAGE EXAMPLESPolice say the trio used a pry-bar and hammer to break into HGK Holdings jewelry wholesaler on West 36th Street at about 11 p.m. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Central Michigan was hammered, 55-10, by Tulsa in the Miami Beach Bowl. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) “Mike is obsessed by exploring the connection between the dramatic and the real,” the director Lance Hammer, a neighbor of Mills’s, said. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking Hypo|Hyper ball-peen hammer a hammer with one round and one flat end; used in working metal bricklayer's hammera hammer used in laying bricks carpenter's hammer, claw hammer, clawhammera hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails beetle, malleta tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing maul, sledge, sledgehammera heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges percussor, plessor, plexor(medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes tack hammera light hammer that is used to drive tacks carpenter's malleta short-handled mallet with a wooden head used to strike a chisel or wedge gavela small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge hand tool a tool used with workers' hands 2n a power tool for drilling rocks Syn|Hypo|Hyper power hammer air hammer, jackhammer, pneumatic hammer a hammer driven by compressed air electric hammera hammer driven by electric motor triphammera massive power hammer; raised by a cam until released to fall under gravity power tool a tool driven by a motor 3n the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard Syn|Hyper hammering, pound, pounding blow a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon 4v beat with or as if with a hammer hammer the metal flat Syn|Hypo|Hyper forge create by hammering sledge, sledgehammer beat with a sledgehammer beat hit repeatedly 5v create by hammering 2hammer the silver into a bowl Syn|Hypo|Hyper forge foliate hammer into thin flat foils dropforgeforge with a dropforge beat shape by beating 1n a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate Hyper striker the part of a mechanical device that strikes something 2n a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. Syn|Hyper mallet drumstick a stick used for playing a drum 3n the ossicle attached to the eardrum Syn|Hyper malleus auditory ossicle ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear 4n a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw Hyper sports equipment equipment needed to participate in a particular sport 5n the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled Syn|Hyper cock striker the part of a mechanical device that strikes something |
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