(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.
Ped
Definition:
(n.) A basket; a hammer; a pannier.
Example Sentences:
(1) Qa-2 antigen expression was used as a marker for the Q subregion and fast or slow development was used to assess Ped gene phenotype in backcross embryos generated from the mating of (B6.K1 x B6.K2)F1 and B6.K1 mice.
(2) We recently studied the effects of 4-OHA and other aromatase inhibitors, 10-propargylestr-4-ene-3,17-dione (PED) and imidazo[1,5-alpha]3,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrin-6-yl-(4-benzonitrile) (CGS 16949A) as well as 5 alpha-reductase inhibitors, N,N-diethyl-4-methyl-3-oxo-4-aza-5 alpha-androstane-17 beta-carboxyamide (4-MA) and 17 beta-hydroxy-4-aza-4-methyl-19norandrost-5-en-3-one (L651190) in prostatic tissue from 11 patients with prostatic cancer and six patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), and from normal men at autopsy.
(3) A simple, accurate, and practical device was designed for detecting the woman at risk for postpartum emotional disorder (PED).
(4) Hedo Turkoglu was busted for PED use Despite the fact that the use of performance enhancing drugs is one of the biggest stories in sports today, alongside other notable topics such as imaginary girlfriends and ill-timed power failures, the NBA world seems strangely immune to the controversy.
(5) PEDS Plus broth aids diagnosis of pediatric bacteremia by increasing recovery of etiologic agents and decreasing the time required for detection.
(6) The results of these studies show that the difference in the rate of cleavage division between slow-developing strains (Ped slow) and fast-developing strains (Ped fast) is maintained in vitro.
(7) Initial detection occurred earlier with Bactec Peds Plus, while growth on solid media occurred earlier with Roche Septi-Chek.
(8) Of 7,798 adult patients admitted to a level I trauma center from July 1986 through June 1990, 16.0% (1,246) had greater than or equal to 1 PED.
(9) It appeared on the border of the PED (16 cases) usually temporally, or on the immediate border of the laser scar (4 cases).
(10) The findings, corrobated with other closely comparable observations, suggest that the emergence of PED as an intercurrent mortality problem during rabbit passage of pathogenic Treponema pallidum is the result of a specific selective pressure on a benign passenger virus.
(11) However, the results also demonstrate that several of the PDE inhibitors have effects on central DA mechanisms that are difficult to explain solely on the basis of PED inhibition.
(12) 9.56pm BST More Guardian coverage My colleague Michael Solomon weighs in with a piece that explains the Biogenesis PEDs scandal.
(13) Medium levels of progesterone, a major product of these cells, were found to decrease in a dose- and time-dependent manner upon addition of PED.
(14) PED was elicited either mechanically by employing single or double pressure steps, or electrically by antidromic stimulation of the aortic nerve.
(15) One hundred eighty-one isolates were recovered in both bottles, 75 in PEDS Plus only, and 33 in 6A only (P less than 0.001).
(16) Obvious subretinal new vessels developed in 16 (34%) of the serous PEDs over an average follow-up period of 25 months.
(17) Similarly, neither the position nor curvature of the Ped-Aed relation was changed by ULFS-49.
(18) This is a sign that although MLB and MLBPA are now working together to rid PED's from the game, the union is still prepared to fight for due process which makes a lot of sense from their perspective.
(19) The slow potassium current (Er = -85 mV) evoked in Ped-8 and Ped-9 neurones by glutamate, quisqualate and kainate could be blocked by tetraethylammonium (50 microM).
(20) Meanwhile Bud Selig, who made his pursuit and punishment of those using PEDs a top priority during a controversial, costly and aggressive investigation, is reaching the end of his time as MLB commissioner.