(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.
Press
Definition:
(n.) An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black.
(n.) To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress.
(n.) A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
(v.) To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.
(v.) To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something.
(v.) To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.
(v.) To embrace closely; to hug.
(v.) To oppress; to bear hard upon.
(v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger.
(v.) To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.
(v.) To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press divine truth on an audience.
(v.) To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race.
(v. i.) To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or urge with steady force.
(v. i.) To move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng; to encroach.
(v. i.) To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.
(n.) An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a body is taken; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or presses.
(n.) Specifically, a printing press.
(n.) The art or business of printing and publishing; hence, printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a curse.
(n.) An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press.
(n.) The act of pressing or thronging forward.
(n.) Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements.
(n.) A multitude of individuals crowded together; / crowd of single things; a throng.
Example Sentences:
(1) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
(2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(3) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
(4) All aircraft exited the strike areas safely.” Earlier, residents living near the Mosul dam told the Associated Press the area was being targeted by air strikes.
(5) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
(6) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(7) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(8) In this experiment animals were trained to lever press in two distinctive contexts.
(9) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
(10) Following each stimulus, the subject had to press a button for RT and then report the digit perceived.
(11) 12pm, Channel 4 press office: "I refer you to the statement put out last night."
(12) Experimental animals pressed the S+ bar at a significantly higher rate than the S- bar.
(13) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
(14) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
(15) She said a referendum was off the table for this general election but, pressed on whether it would be in the SNP manifesto for 2016, she responded: “We will write that manifesto when we get there.
(16) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
(17) When S+ followed cocaine, stereotyped bar-pressing developed with markedly increased responding during the remainder of the session.
(18) The deteriorating situation would worsen if ministers pressed ahead with another controversial Lansley policy – that of abolishing the cap on the amount of income semi-independent foundation trust hospitals can make by treating private patients.
(19) According to Australian Associated Press the woman made an official complaint to police on Wednesday morning and supplied some evidence.
(20) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.