What's the difference between apple and hammer?

Apple


Definition:

  • (n.) The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
  • (n.) Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.
  • (n.) Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.
  • (n.) Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.
  • (v. i.) To grow like an apple; to bear apples.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
  • (2) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
  • (3) To settle the case, Apple and the four publishers offered a range of commitments to the commission that will include the termination of current agency agreements, and, for two years, giving ebook retailers the freedom to set their own prices for ebooks.
  • (4) We will be comparing apples with apples,” one source said.
  • (5) Following its success, Littleloud created a version of the game for Apple's iPad, launched onto the App Store at Christmas.
  • (6) Apple has come out fighting, which is no surprise given the remarkable success that the company has seen in recent years.
  • (7) Apple could quite possibly afford to promise to pay out 80% of its streaming iTunes income, especially if such a service helped it sell more iPhones and iPads, where the margins are bigger.
  • (8) That refusal seems to have persuaded Apple's team, which has been core to the development of WebKit since using it for the Safari browser, released in January 2003, to introduce WebKit2 earlier this year which did offer that capability.
  • (9) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
  • (10) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
  • (11) More Apple and Android phones have now been sold, for example, than all the Japanese cameras ever made.
  • (12) It's only fair to note that Apple fans are ecstatic at the prospect.
  • (13) All eyes are on Apple to do something there, but it can be the smaller companies that surprise.
  • (14) Using tritiated apple cutin as substrate, the two cutinases showed similar substrate concentration dependence, protein concentration dependence, time course profiles, and pH dependence profiles with optimum near 10.0.
  • (15) CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) Apple event about to start.
  • (16) The effects of gamma-globulins to brain specific nonhistone chromatin proteins (BSNCP-3.5;-3.6) on conditioned food avoidance behaviour (carrot or apple) was studied in the garden snail.
  • (17) A 1977 Apple II computer sits in the background, near a poster that reads "Think" – presumably a nod to Apple's "Think different" advertising campaign of the late 1990s.
  • (18) Apple held an unprecedented online sale on Friday and retail giants like WalMart have combined their online and bricks and mortar sales.
  • (19) Asked whether the US tax code was convoluted and difficult to understand partly because of lobbying by companies including Apple for exemptions, Cook replied: "No doubt."
  • (20) Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, warned Barack Obama in public remarks this month that history had shown “sacrificing our right to privacy can have dire consequences”.

Hammer


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meeting after meeting during 2011 to try to hammer out agreements about the basic shape of the Egyptian constitution – meetings that always mysteriously collapsed.
  • (2) The result will be yet another humiliating hammering for Labour in a seat it could never win, but hey, never mind.
  • (3) The trust was a compromise hammered out in the wake of the Hutton report, when the corporation hoped to maintain the status quo by preserving the old BBC governors.
  • (4) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
  • (5) The preceding paper (Hammer, C.H., A. Nicholson, and M. M. Mayer, 1975, Proc.
  • (6) The neurological deficits presented in this case were due to pontine infarction, which was suspected to be produced by thrombosis from the aneurysm, and a hydrocephalus might have been caused by a "water-hammering" effect of the elongated basilar artery.
  • (7) You’d think Michael Foot himself was running, attending debates in a hammer and sickle-print donkey jacket, from the amount we’ve been talking about him.
  • (8) The ultrasonic root planing however showed a more discrete scalloped surface with very small tears and having a hammered appearance.
  • (9) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
  • (10) He's scored for the Hammers, Newcastle, Derby and Leicester.
  • (11) IPC Media's NME, which was overtaken by Future Publishing monthly Metal Hammer for the first time in the second half of last year, had an average weekly circulation of 40,948 in the first half of 2009, down 27.2% on the same period in 2008.
  • (12) On the weather map rain hammers down like a monsoon.
  • (13) Formative experiences included watching Hammer horror films aged six as his babysitter passed him cigarettes, and of course Top Of The Pops: "I remember being seven and watching Ian Dury & The Blockheads and Lena Lovich.
  • (14) In 1967 Baker's career took a different turn when he joined Hammer.
  • (15) However, the match would end 2-2 thanks to a last-gasp Leonardo Ulloa penalty awarded after Jeffrey Schlupp went down under pressure from Carroll – something which infuriated the Hammers striker.
  • (16) Fabregas hammers it down the middle, the ball sailing slightly to the left before bulging the net.
  • (17) Global stock markets have fallen sharply on fears that the proposed €110bn (£95bn) rescue package hammered out over the weekend for Greece will not be enough to solve its financial crisis, as well as concern that the problems could spread to other European countries.
  • (18) Work to hammer out the details would begin immediately, Ghani said on Friday.
  • (19) He urged the prime minister, David Cameron, and Osborne to join leaders in Brussels to hammer out a deal.
  • (20) The relationship between final hammer velocity and maximum amplitude of radiated piano sound was investigated.