Meaning

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

    Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together.

    Hammer, Hàmmer

    мо́лотmólot, молото́кmolotók

    мо́лотmólot, молото́кmolotók

    a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking

  2. The act of using a hammer to hit something.

    The nail is too loose—give it a hammer.

  3. The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.

    Hammer, Malleus

    молото́чекmolotóček

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

    The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings

    a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate

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

    Hammer

    мо́лотmólot

    a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw

  6. The last stone in an end.

  7. A frisbee throw in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown forwards above the head.

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

    Hammer, Hammer

    молото́чекmolotóček

    the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled

  9. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.

    St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.

  10. The accelerator pedal.

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

    Schlagstück, Hahn, Schlaghebel

    куро́кkurók, уда́рникudárnik

  12. (broadly, slang)A handgun.

Examples

309 sentences
  1. She hit him with a hammer.

    Вона вдарила його молотком. — deniko

    ruОна его ударила молотком. — marafon

    deSie schlug mit einem Hammer auf ihn ein. — al_ex_an_der

  2. Could you hand me the hammer?

    Ти не міг би передати мені молоток? — deniko

    ruТы не мог бы подать мне молоток? — marafon

  3. Could you hand me that hammer?

    Ти не міг би передати мені той молоток? — deniko

  4. Why do you need a hammer?

    Навіщо тобі молоток? — deniko

    ruЗачем тебе молоток? — marafon

  5. Why did Tom need a hammer?

    Навіщо Тому був потрібен молоток? — deniko

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
tool:
Русский
By meaning 3
tool:
bone of the middle ear — see also malleus:
part of a firearm:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
tool:
bone of the middle ear — see also malleus:
part of a firearm:

Origin

From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from P

From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion.

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Forms

plural: hammers
Singularhammer
Pluralhammers

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows):poundhammeringpounding
  • a power tool for drilling rocks:power hammer
  • the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled:cock
  • a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.:mallet
  • the ossicle attached to the eardrum:malleus

Word family

86 related words

Collocations

5 patterns
  • with a hammer
  • need a hammer
  • have a hammer
  • use a hammer
  • new hammer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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