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hammer
English
Etymology
From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros (compare Sanskrit ????? (a?mará, “stony”)), itself a derivation from *h?é?m? (“stone”).
For *h?é?m? (“stone”), compare Lithuanian akmuõ, Latvian akmens, Russian ?????? (kamen?), Serbo-Croatian kam?n, Albanian kmesë (“sickle”), Ancient Greek ????? (ákm?n, “meteor rock, anvil”), Avestan ????????????????????? (namsa), Sanskrit ?????? (á?man)) (root *h?e?- (“sharp”)).
(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?hæ.m?(?)/
- Rhymes: -æm?(r)
- (US) IPA(key): /?hæ.m?/
Noun
hammer (plural hammers)
- A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
- The act of using a hammer to hit something.
- A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
- (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 throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
- Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
- One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
- St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
- 1849, John Henry Newman, Discourses to Mixed Congregations
- He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.
- (journalism) Short for hammer headline.
- 1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, ?Edward C. Nicholls, ?Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing (page 104)
- Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.
- 1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, ?Edward C. Nicholls, ?Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing (page 104)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- mallet
Verb
hammer (third-person singular simple present hammers, present participle hammering, simple past and past participle hammered)
- To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
- To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
- hammered money
- (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
- (sports) To hit particularly hard.
- (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
- 2011, Tim Moore, French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France (page 58)
- Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre.
- 2011, Tim Moore, French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France (page 58)
- (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
- I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
- (transitive, slang, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
- We hammered them 5-0!
- (transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).
- 1995, Optimizing Windows NT (volume 4, page 226)
- So we'll be hammering the server in an unrealistic manner, but we'll see how the additional clients affect overall performance. We'll add two, three, four, and then five clients, […]
- 1995, Optimizing Windows NT (volume 4, page 226)
- (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).
- (transitive, colloquial) To have hard sex with
- Synonym: pound
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- hammer out
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros, from *h?é?m? (“stone”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ham?r/, [?h?m?]
Noun
hammer c (singular definite hammeren, plural indefinite hammere or hamre)
- hammer
Inflection
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ham?/
- Homophone: Hammer
Verb
hammer
- (colloquial, regional) Contraction of haben wir.
Usage notes
This contraction is common throughout central Germany, southern Germany, and Austria. It is only occasionally heard in northern Germany.
See also
- simmer
Middle English
Noun
hammer
- Alternative form of hamer
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros, from *h?é?m? (“stone”).
Alternative forms
- hammar
Noun
hammer m (definite singular hammeren, indefinite plural hammere or hamrer, definite plural hammerne or hamrene)
- a hammer (tool)
Related terms
- hamre (verb)
Etymology 2
Noun
hammer m
- indefinite plural of ham
References
- “hammer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros, from *h?é?m? (“stone”).
Noun
hammer c (plural hammers, diminutive hammerke)
- hammer
Further reading
- “hammer”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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fasten
English
Etymology
From Middle English fastenen, from Old English fæstnian, from Proto-West Germanic *fastin?n (“to secure, fasten”). Equivalent to fast +? -en.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f??s?n/, /?f??sn?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fæs?n/, /?fæsn?/
Verb
fasten (third-person singular simple present fastens, present participle fastening, simple past and past participle fastened)
- (transitive, intransitive) To attach or connect in a secure manner.
- May 31, 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner No. 43
- The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
- May 31, 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner No. 43
- To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
Derived terms
- fastening
- unfasten
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Stefan, nefast
German
Etymology 1
Middle High German vasten, from Old High German fast?n, from Proto-Germanic *fast?n?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fastn?/, /?fast?n/
- Homophone: fassten
- Hyphenation: fas?ten; pre-1996: fa?sten
Verb
fasten (weak, third-person singular present fastet, past tense fastete, past participle gefastet, auxiliary haben)
- to fast
Conjugation
Related terms
- Fasten
- Fastenzeit
- Fastnacht
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fa?st?n/
- Hyphenation: fas?ten; pre-1996: fa?sten
Verb
fasten
- inflection of fasen:
- first/third-person plural preterite
- first/third-person plural subjunctive II
Further reading
- “fasten” in Duden online
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- fasta
Noun
fasten m or f
- definite masculine singular of faste
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fast?n?.
Verb
fast?n
- to fast
Conjugation
Descendants
- Middle High German: vasten
- Cimbrian: bastan
- German: fasten
- Luxembourgish: faaschten
- Yiddish: ???????? (fastn)
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