hammer

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈhæmə/|/ˈhamə/    美 /ˈhæmɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
    — Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together.
  2. The act of using a hammer to hit something.
    — The nail is too loose—give it a hammer.
  3. The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
  4. In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
    — The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings
  5. A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
  6. The last stone in an end.
  7. A frisbee throw in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown forwards above the head.
  8. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
  9. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
    — St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
  10. Ellipsis of hammer headline. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.
  11. The accelerator pedal.
    — We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh 'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town. I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck And I'm about to put the hammer down."
  12. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
    — But the Englishman was close to him—so close that his hand reached the leveled barrel a fraction of a second before the hammer fell upon the cartridge, and the bullet that was intended for Tarzan’s heart whirred harmlessly above his head.
  13. A handgun. broadly,slang
    — Another one of my peoples came to me with a plan. "Yo, man, I need to get some money. I need to borrow that hammer." So I gave him my nickel-plated .357 with a wooden handle, and off he went to stand by the weed spot.
动词 v.
  1. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
    — Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.
  2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
    — hammered money
  3. To emphasize a point repeatedly. figuratively
  4. To hit particularly hard. usually
    — This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd.
  5. To ride very fast. intransitive,slang
    — Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre.
  6. To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer. intransitive
    — I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
  7. To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly. figuratively,slang,transitive
    — We hammered them 5-0!
  8. To make high demands on (a system or service). slang,transitive
    — So we'll be hammering the server in an unrealistic manner, but we'll see how the additional clients affect overall performance. We'll add two, three, four, and then five clients, […]
  9. To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange. transitive
  10. To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market). transitive
  11. To have hard sex with. colloquial,transitive
    — A short time later I’ve got Lissie in bed. I’m really going after it, really hammering her.

词形变化

hammers plural hammers present,singular,third-person hammering participle,present hammered participle,past hammered past

词汇关系

衍生词
hammerable hammered hammerer hammer home hammer out hammer up mishammer outhammer rehammer sledgehammer the nail that sticks out gets hammered down
相关词
mallet hammer out

词源

词源 1
From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion.
(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.
词源 2
From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion.
(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.
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