Le mot anglais du jour

hammer

marteau

Définitions

anglais > français
hammer
1. n. (Outils) Marteau.
2. v. Battre, passer à tabac, rosser.
anglais > anglais
hammer
1. n. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
2. n. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
3. n. (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
4. n. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
5. n. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
6. n. (curling) The last stone in an end.
7. n. (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
8. n. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
9. n. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
10. v. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
11. v. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
12. v. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
13. v. (sports) To hit particularly hard.
14. v. (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
15. v. (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
16. v. (transitive figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
We hammered them 5-0!
français > anglais
marteau
1. n-m. a hammer used for pounding
2. n-m. a machine tool that pounds
3. n-m. a hammer-shaped tool used to hit something, such as a gavel
4. n-m. a rapper; a door knocker
5. n-m. (music) a piano or dulcimer hammer
6. n-m. (anatomy) the malleus
7. n-m. (athletics) a throwing hammer
8. n-m. (technical) a hammer with bas relief marks used to create imprints on wood, leather etc.
9. n-m. (curling) the advantage of throwing the last stone
10. n-m. (clockmaking) the part of a clock that strikes the bell
11. adj. (dated, informal) crazy; deranged