Definition of "hammer" in 英语

noun

A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
- Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together
The act of using a hammer to hit something.
- The nail is too loose—give it a hammer.
(anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
(music) 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
(sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
(curling) The last stone in an end.
(frisbee) A frisbee throw in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown forwards above the head.
Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
- St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
(journalism) Ellipsis of hammer headline.
(motor racing) The accelerator pedal.
(firearms) A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
(African-American Vernacular, slang, loosely) A handgun.

verb

To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
- Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.
To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
(figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
(sports, etc.) To hit particularly hard.
(cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
(intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
- I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
(transitive, slang, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.
- We hammered them 5-0!
(transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).
(transitive, finance) To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
(transitive, finance) To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
(sex, transitive, colloquial) To have hard sex with.