Palavra Inglês do Dia

hammer

Definições

inglês > português

hammer

1. Substantivo. (Ferramenta) martelo

2. Substantivo. (Anatomia) martelo (ossículo do ouvido)

3. Substantivo. (Armas de fogo) cão (peça que percute a espoleta)

inglês > inglês

hammer

1. n. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.

2. n. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.

3. n. (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.

4. n. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.

5. n. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.

6. n. (curling) The last stone in an end.

7. n. (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.

8. n. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.

9. n. 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!