Palabra Inglés del Día

hammer

martillar

Definiciones

inglés > español
hammer
1. s. Martillo.
inglés > inglés
hammer
1. s. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
2. s. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
3. s. (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
4. s. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
5. s. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
6. s. (curling) The last stone in an end.
7. s. (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
8. s. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
9. s. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
10. v. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
11. v. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
12. v. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
13. v. (sports) To hit particularly hard.
14. v. (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
15. v. (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
16. v. (transitive figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
We hammered them 5-0!
español > inglés
martillar
1. v. to hammer