Hammer

['hæmə] or ['hæmɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); 'the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard'; 'the pounding of feet on the hallway'.

(noun.) a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking.

(noun.) a power tool for drilling rocks.

(noun.) a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate.

(noun.) the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled.

(noun.) a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw.

(verb.) beat with or as if with a hammer; 'hammer the metal flat'.

整理:伊冯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

(n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer

(n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.

(n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.

(n.) The malleus.

(n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming.

(n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.

(v. t.) To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.

(v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

(v. t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.

(v. i.) To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

(v. i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.

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解釋/意思:

n. a tool for beating metal or driving nails: a striking-piece in the mechanism of a clock or piano: that part of the lock of a firearm which falls with a sharp blow and causes the discharge of the piece: the baton of an auctioneer a knock from which signifies that an article is sold: a small bone of the ear the malleus.—v.t. to drive shape or fashion with a hammer: to contrive by intellectual labour to excogitate (with out): to declare (a person) a defaulter on the Stock Exchange: to beat down the price of (a stock) to depress (a market).—ns. Hamm′er-beam a horizontal piece of timber in place of a tie-beam at or near the feet of a pair of rafters; Hamm′erhead Hamm′er-fish a rapacious fish of the shark family—from the shape of its head.—adj. Hamm′erheaded with a head shaped like a hammer: dull in intellect stupid.—n. Hamm′ering a dented appearance on silverware effected by successive blows of a hammer.—adj. Hamm′erless without a hammer—of a gun.—n. Hamm′erman a man who hammers as a blacksmith goldsmith &c.—Hammer-and-tongs with great noise and vigour violently.—Bring to the hammer to sell or cause to sell by auction; Up to the hammer first-rate.

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