transcription, транскрипция: [ hæmə(r) ]
( hammers, hammering, hammered)
1.
A hammer is a tool that consists of a heavy piece of metal at the end of a handle. It is used, for example, to hit nails into a piece of wood or a wall, or to break things into pieces.
He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.
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2.
If you hammer an object such as a nail, you hit it with a hammer.
To avoid damaging the tree, hammer a wooden peg into the hole...
Builders were still hammering outside the window.
VERB : V n prep / adv , V , also V n
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Hammer in means the same as hammer .
The workers kneel on the ground and hammer the small stones in.
PHRASAL VERB : V n P , also V P n (not pron)
• ham‧mer‧ing
The noise of hammering was dulled by the secondary glazing.
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3.
If you hammer on a surface, you hit it several times in order to make a noise, or to emphasize something you are saying when you are angry.
We had to hammer and shout before they would open up...
A crowd of reporters was hammering on the door...
He hammered his two clenched fists on the table.
= pound
VERB : V , V on n , V n on n
• ham‧mer‧ing
As he said it, there was a hammering outside.
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4.
If you hammer something such as an idea into people or you hammer at it, you keep repeating it forcefully so that it will have an effect on people.
He hammered it into me that I had not suddenly become a rotten goalkeeper...
Recent advertising campaigns from the industry have hammered at these themes.
VERB : V n into n , V at n
5.
If you say that someone hammers another person, you mean that they attack, criticize, or punish the other person severely. ( mainly BRIT )
The report hammers the private motorist...
VERB : V n
• ham‧mer‧ing
Parents have taken a terrible hammering.
N-SING
6.
If you say that businesses are being hammered , you mean that they are being unfairly harmed, for example by a change in taxes or by bad economic conditions. ( BRIT )
The company has been hammered by the downturn in the construction and motor industries.
V-PASSIVE : be V-ed
7.
In sports, if you say that one player or team hammered another, you mean that the first player or team defeated the second completely and easily. ( BRIT JOURNALISM )
He hammered the young Austrian player in four straight sets.
= thrash
VERB : V n
• ham‧mer‧ing
Our cricketers are suffering their ritual hammering at the hands of the Aussies.
= thrashing
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8.
In athletics, a hammer is a heavy weight on a piece of wire, which the athlete throws as far as possible.
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The hammer also refers to the sport of throwing the hammer.
N-SING : the N
9.
If you say that someone was going at something hammer and tongs , you mean that they were doing it with great enthusiasm or energy.
He loved gardening. He went at it hammer and tongs as soon as he got back from work...
PHRASE : PHR after v
10.
If you say that something goes, comes, or is under the hammer , you mean that it is going to be sold at an auction.
Ian Fleming’s original unpublished notes are to go under the hammer at London auctioneers Sotheby’s.
PHRASE : PHR after v