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How to pronounce “hammer”
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Pronunciation guide for hammer
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of hammer with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu
In today's instance, Joshua Hammer
- Definition summary
- A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce hammer
The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu
In today's instance, Joshua Hammer
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “hammer”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
- The act of using a hammer to hit something.
- (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
- (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
- (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
- (curling) The last stone in an end.
- (frisbee) A frisbee throw in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown forwards above the head.
- Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
- One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of hammer headline.
- (motor racing) The accelerator pedal.
- (firearms) A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, loosely) A handgun.
- [Verb]
- To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
- To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
- (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
- (sports, etc.) To hit particularly hard.
- (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
- (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
- (transitive, slang, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).
- (transitive, finance) To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
- (transitive, finance) To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
- (sex, transitive, colloquial) To have hard sex with.
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