(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.
Malleable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The wire consists of a flexible, 49-strand, stainless steel cable connected on one end to a short, malleable, blunt leader with the opposite end connected to a small islet.
(2) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
(3) The use of a malleable curved disposable suction cautery for the control of any persistent bleeding at the conclusion of adenoidectomy in over 1000 cases has prevented any primary postoperative hemorrhages from the nasopharynx, and obviated the need for post-nasal packing.
(4) These results indicate that the Nh genome is extremely malleable and large portions may be non-essential for growth in culture.
(5) Collectively, these findings indicate that the malleability of learned behavior is not simply a function of initial associative strength but is dependent on path during initial acquisition.
(6) In an attempt to minimize operating time and donor-site morbidity--as well as obtain a more malleable graft--we used liposuction to obtain our fat grafts for sinus obliteration.
(7) British law on photographing people in public places is still quite malleable.
(8) These changes in laminar distribution resemble the laminar specific decay of neuronal malleability and parallel the developmental redistribution of 1,4-Dihydropyridine-sensitive Ca channels.
(9) The plates show considerable advantages over existing small plate systems in their size, malleability and consequent ease of handling.
(10) These modifications include decreased width and thickness of the metal skeleton for easier application and increased malleability, respectively.
(11) These deformities can usually be corrected by appropriate splinting in the neonatal period, a time when estrogen activity is increased and the ear is very malleable.
(12) I look forward to what the least biblical of biblical films will do with this most malleable of texts.
(13) The goal of this study was to determine whether the use-dependent malleability of visual cortex functions which is particularly pronounced in 4-week-old kittens correlates with enhanced susceptibility to kindling.
(14) In order to verify these effects, the authors devised a multi-electrode, malleable plaque (63 electrode sites) that could be secured at the AV junction during venous occlusion in the open-chest, anesthetized dog.
(15) The pelvic-reconstruction plate is malleable and is more easily contoured in the operating room than a dynamic-compression plate.
(16) The facts do not support this assertion, and I will show, using examples from among the arthropods, that appropriate experiments often reveal competition, feedback, and prolonged periods of malleability much as they do for the vertebrates.
(17) Furthermore, they suggest as a possible reason for the decline of malleability towards the end of the critical period the reduction of NMDA receptors.
(18) The government’s desire for a more malleable Senate – one of its key reasons for calling a double dissolution – has backfired badly, with a similarly-sized, and likely equally recalcitrant, crossbench set to take seats on the red benches.
(19) It would seem important to further examine malleable and critical periods of development in a broader array of developmental contexts and species to determine whether malleable periods for atypical or abnormal development and critical periods for species-typical or normal development always coincide.
(20) The low incidence of sepsis is attributed to the use of the curved malleable Hodgkinson tibial nail which requires no reaming, renders the operation less difficult and traumatic, and interferes minimally with bone vascularity.