(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.
Martel
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a blow with, or as with, a hammer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mention deserve also Otfried Foerster, Thierry de Martel, Clovis Vincent, René Leriche and Ludwig Puusepp.
(2) A modified version of a questionnaire by Martell and Mitchell was administered at five separate intervals to 50 postpartum women with uncomplicated vaginal deliveries.
(3) Vitamin D3 treatment of the human promyelocytic cell line, HL-60, is accompanied by an increase in phorbol ester receptor number (Martell, R. E., Simpson, R. U., and Taylor, J. M. (1987) J. Biol.
(4) The original De Martell drill was redesigned into a hole-saw for simultaneous production of burr-holes and appropriate autologous bone plugs.
(5) Cooperative binding isotherms for protons have long been observed (but not emphasized as cooperative binding) when studies have been done on clusters for the evaluation of metal ion complexation [A. E. Martell & M. Calvin (1952) Chemistry of the Metal Chelate Compounds, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey].
(6) Much of the artistic vocabulary for Boyce's installation derives from a modernist garden, complete with concrete trees, created by designers Joel and Jan Martel in Paris in 1925.
(7) The president of my former club Lens, Gervais Martel, said I left because I got more money in England, that I didn't care about the shirt.
(8) 80, 269-276; Martel, R., Cloney, L. P., Pelcher, L. E., and Hemmingsen, S. M. (1990) Gene (Amst.)
(9) Judith Rodriguez, a member of PEN’s Writers Circle The PEN statement is signed by Margaret Atwood and Ian Rankin , along with Lebanese author Hanan Al-Shaykh; Turkish author Elif Shafak; Canadian author Yann Martel; journalist Robert Cottrell; poet Judith Rodriguez; chair of PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee, Salil Tripathi; president of PEN International, Jennifer Clement; and president emeritus of PEN International, John Ralston Saul.
(10) Musicians Bob Geldof and Peter Gabriel have also signed the petition, as have writers Ali Smith, Kamila Shamsie, Philip Pullman and Yann Martel.
(11) So he got a friend to send him a book in which the Martels' design was illustrated.
(12) New York City resident Huguette Martel, who moved from France, has spent a decade living in two apartments evensmaller than the proposed micro-unit.
(13) "The Messi family has always wanted to act with transparency, clarity and to collaborate [with the court], and it was the same today," said their lawyer, Cristóbal Martell, outside the courthouse.
(14) It is possible to preserve ischemic intestinal segments, which currently are routinely resected, following superior mesenteric artery occlusion by exteriorizing them through the abdominal wall with De Martell clamps and observing them carefully.
(15) It's a technically staggering adaptation of Yann Martel's Booker-winning novel about an Indian teenager who finds himself adrift in a lifeboat with a tiger.
(16) On Tuesday, Life of Pi author Yann Martel will release an open letter to Azimjon Askarov, a human rights journalist from Kyrgyzstan’s Uzbek minority who has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
(17) More than 150 writers, including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Yann Martel and Colm Tóibín, signed a letter condemning the series of fatal attacks and calling on the government of Bangladesh “to ensure that the tragic events … are not repeated”.
(18) To date the magical realist novel by Yann Martel has sold 3.3m copies in all formats.
(19) More than 150 writers, including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Yann Martel and Colm Tóibín, signed a letter condemning the series of fatal attacks and calling on the country’s government “to ensure that the tragic events … are not repeated”.
(20) Alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1) bound to trophoblastic cells in rat placenta is activated by Mg2+ and inhibited by Zn2+ in the same way as is found with partially purified soluble alkaline phosphatase in the same tissue (PetitClerc, C., Delisle, M., Martel, M., Fecteau, C. & Brière, N. (1975) Can.