What's the difference between hammer and hummer?

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.

Hummer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.
  • (n.) A humming bird.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are no yellow Lamborghinis or Hummers blasting music.
  • (2) During a conference in 2008, she distributed a fleet of hummers to regional bosses.
  • (3) The latest incarnation of the Batmobile - usually a sleek sportscar - looks like someone crossed a Hummer with a Lamborghini and a stealth bomber, then got a T-Rex to sit on the result.
  • (4) Or if I'm in a more socially conscious form of my default setting, I can spend time in the end-of-the-day traffic jam being angry and disgusted at all the huge, stupid, lane-blocking SUVs and Hummers and V12 pickup trucks burning their wasteful, selfish, 40-gallon tanks of gas, and I can dwell on the fact that the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles driven by the ugliest, most inconsiderate and aggressive drivers, who are usually talking on cell phones as they cut people off in order to get just 20 stupid feet ahead in a traffic jam, and I can think about how our children's children will despise us for wasting all the future's fuel and probably screwing up the climate, and how spoiled and stupid and disgusting we all are, and how it all just sucks ...
  • (5) Outside Gucci, a driver kipped yesterday in a black seven-series Mercedes; nearby someone had parked their giant Hummer jeep on the pavement.
  • (6) In this traffic, all these vehicles stuck and idling in my way: it's not impossible that some of these people in SUVs have been in horrible car accidents in the past and now find driving so traumatic that their therapist has all but ordered them to get a huge, heavy SUV so they can feel safe enough to drive; or that the Hummer that just cut me off is maybe being driven by a father whose little child is hurt or sick in the seat next to him, and he's trying to rush to the hospital, and he's in a much bigger, more legitimate hurry than I am - it is actually I who am in his way.
  • (7) GM, which is 60% owned by the US treasury, has cut its workforce from 318,000 three years ago to 209,000 globally and has got rid of brands such as Hummer, Saab, Pontiac and Saturn.
  • (8) I’m not going to sit back and buy a Hummer and just let it all slide.
  • (9) The organization will begin to disintegrate into several smaller, uncoordinated entities – ultimately failing in their objective of creating a strong state.” Manning was posted to Forward Operating Base Hummer outside Baghdad where as an intelligence analyst she had a ring-side seat on the largely Sunni insurgency, poring through classified databases to track the movements and tactics of groups including Isis.
  • (10) 9.01pm: Meanwhile, in other news on the motor industry front - General Motors has just announced that it is shutting down the gas-guzzling Hummer brand after a sale to China's Sichuan Tengzhong.
  • (11) Among registrations of new passenger cars were 850,000 SUVs – a rise of 24% – including 425 Hummers.
  • (12) GM, America's biggest carmaker, is selling brands such as Hummer and Saturn as it scrambles to slim down its operations.
  • (13) If the world was going to end next week I'd have commemorative ARMAGEDDON RIGHT ON IT 2K12 T-shirts made for me and 35 close mates, hire a white stretch Hummer to take us to Nando's in Brent Cross, and ride it all out over a family platter or 10 and a bucket of cheeky Vimtos.
  • (14) Yet if Punta is testament to the utter incongruence of money and taste, José Ignacio, occupying a thin peninsula in the middle of two wide coves, is a restrained, elegant demonstration of how high-end development can be done well - the Jaguar to Punta del Este's luminous yellow, souped-up Hummer.
  • (15) In fact, the biggest problem for Qahtani was her husband sitting next to her in the family Hummer.
  • (16) Hummer limousines (£400 an hour), fire engines and party buses (from £350 an hour), rickshaws and helicopters (and even tractors in rural locations) are also becoming more popular choices, Brookman says.
  • (17) This difference has been attributed [Hummer & Millán (1991) Biochem.
  • (18) When the couple eventually move here, I trust they will get their Hummer serviced at Kwik Fit, sport K-Swiss trainers on their feet and eat only Special K for breakfast, followed by KFC for lunch with a Kit Kat for pudding.
  • (19) One of the earliest personal computers, the Apple-1, will also go under the hummer alongside Turing's work.
  • (20) The prisoner was seen to be gasping for air for up to 14 minutes in a procedure that one observer, Lawrence Hummer, described in the Guardian as horrendous and inhumane.