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Hammer is a related term of pin.


As a verb hammer

is .

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

    See also

    * mallet

    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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , 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)

    See also

    * hammer out

    pin

    English

    (wikipedia pin)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small device, made (usually) of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
  • * Milton
    • With pins of adamant / And chains they made all fast.
  • A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
  • A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
    • Pull the pin out of the grenade before throwing it at the enemy.
  • A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
  • (in plural'' pins ; ''informal ) A leg.
    • I'm not so good on my pins these days.
  • (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
    • The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins .
  • A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
  • (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
  • (chess) A scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to attack.
  • (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
    • The shot landed right on the pin .
  • * Shakespeare
    • the very pin of his heart cleft
  • (dated) A mood, a state of being.
  • * Cowper
    • a merry pin
  • One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
  • (medicine, obsolete) caligo
    • (Shakespeare)
  • A thing of small value; a trifle.
  • * Spectator
    • He did not care a pin for her.
  • A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
  • (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
  • The tenon of a dovetail joint.

    • Synonyms

    * (small nail) nail, tack * (cylinder of wood or metal) peg * (games) skittle * (jewellery fastened with a pin) brooch * (accessory) badge

    Hyponyms

    * (jewellery fastened with a pin) breastpin * (chess) absolute pin, relative pin, partial pin

    Derived terms

    * belaying pin * breastpin * clothespin / clothes pin * drawing pin * gudgeon pin * on a pin * on pins and needles * pincushion * pinhead * pinhole * pin money * pinner * pinprick * pins and needles * pintle * pin-up, pinup * rolling pin * safety pin

    See also

    * needle

    Verb

  • (often followed by a preposition such as'' to''' ''or'' ' on ) To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
  • (chess, usually, in the passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
  • (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
  • To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
  • (computing, GUI) To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item.
    • to pin a window to the Taskbar

    • Derived terms

    * pin down * pin in * pin on * pin the tail on the donkey * pin up * underpin

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