Hammer vs Queen - What's the difference?

hammer | queen |

As a verb hammer

is .

As a proper noun queen is

a title given to queens.

hammer

English

(wikipedia hammer)

Noun

(en noun)

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

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

(anatomy) The malleus of the 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 rock in an end.

(Ultimate 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.

* J. H. Newman

He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.

Derived terms

* ball peen hammer * claw hammer * cross peen hammer * hammer and sickle * hammerhead * hammer toe * sledgehammer * straight peen hammer * war hammer * Warrington hammer

Verb

(en verb)

To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.

To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

* Dryden

hammered money

(figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.

(sports) To hit particularly hard.

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, year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Marc Vesty , title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd. }}

To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.

I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.

(figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly

We hammered them 5-0!

Derived terms

* (adjective) * hammerer * (verb)

queen

English

(wikipedia queen)

Noun

(en noun)

A female monarch. Example: (Queen Victoria)

The wife or widow of a king.

(chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

(card games) A playing card with the picture of a queen on its face, the twelfth card in a given suit.

A powerful or forceful female person.

(derogatory, slang) An effeminate male homosexual. See drag queen.

A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.

An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.

Synonyms

* (female monarch) queen regnant * (wife of a king) queen consort

Derived terms

* drag queen * drama queen * ice queen * May Queen / queen of the May * prom queen * queencraft * queenhood * Queenie * queenlike * queenly * Queen of Sheba * Queen's English * queenship * requeen

Verb

To make a queen.

(obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.

(Shakespeare)

(chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.

(BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.

* 2000 , "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance

Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).

* 2007 , Madelynne Ellis, Dark Designs

...not Eloise, sat queening him. He couldn't wait to tip her velvet. He wanted to come, but not here, with these three. It was time to extract himself.

* 2012 , Yolanda Celbridge, The Castle of Maldona

She saw his pink tongue flickering on Clare's exposed nympha as she queened him, her love juices shining on his chin and throat