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Definition: Hammered |
HammeredAdjective1. Shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks: "a bowl of hammered brass". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hammered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conformity | Phrase: cela va sans dire; ex pede Herculem; noscitur a sociis; ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat; "they are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations". "The nail that sticks up will get hammered down"; "Stick your neck out and it may get cut off." |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hammered |
| English words defined with "hammered": Cabbling, corrugated fastener ♦ ductility ♦ latten ♦ malleability ♦ nail ♦ plasticity, Puddle-ball ♦ rivet ♦ wiggle nail. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hammered": dry puddling ♦ moil point ♦ Prince Rupert's Drops ♦ steam thawing ♦ tubbing wedge ♦ upending test, upsetting test. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz Käfer) | |
Lyrics | In my life I've been hammered by some heavy blows (Ain't Nothing 'Bout You; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Two hammered silver pitchers from the Caucasus, Georgia (Republic. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Spiral" by Michelle Kwajafa Commentary: "Abstract spiral of hammered metal." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Play | Caption |
 | Clarinet solo over a string drone with a hammered dulcimer at the end. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | In the day ancient leaky radiators sent up columns of steam, loose connecting rods hammered and pounded |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Many worker congresses continue to act largely as rubber stamps for deals hammered out by the manager, union representative, and the party secretary. (references) | |
Economic History | Romania | The campaign of the opposition hammered away on the twin themes of the need to squelch corruption and to launch economic reform. (references) |
Czech Republic | In the latter half of 1992, Klaus and Meciar hammered out an agreement that the two republics would go their separate ways by the end of the year. (references) | |
Switzerland | The accord, hammered out between Crossair and Embraer in 1999, provides for a firm order of as many as 85 as well as options on a tally of 115 jet units, giving the total transaction a potential value of as much as $ 4.9 billion (inclusive of spare/replacement parts). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Hammered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 57.58% of the time. "Hammered" is used about 297 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 57.58% | 171 | 23,814 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 34.01% | 101 | 32,488 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.74% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 297 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hammered": hammered-glass, hammered-on, hammered-out. | |
Ending with "hammered": cold-hammered, hand-hammered, Patent-hammered, sledge-hammered. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "hammered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 锤击 (hammering). (various references) | |
Danish | hamret glas (hammered glass), haerdet ved koldhamring (cold hammered, cold worked, hammer-hardened, strain-hardened), penhamret (hammer dressed, pean-hammered, scabelled), koldhamret (cold hammered, cold worked, hammer-hardened, strain-hardened), for at faestne et forlaengerstykke paa stemplets overside skal man foerst loesne tre kiler, hvorefter pladen kan tages af (first the crown head must be removed which can be done after the slotted pin is hammered out, for fitting the prop extension). (various references) | |
Dutch | om een verlengstuk aan de bovenkant van de stijl aan te brengen moeten eerst de drie klempennen worden losgeslagen, waarna de kopschotel of kopplaat kan worden weggehaald (first the crown head must be removed which can be done after the slotted pin is hammered out, for fitting the prop extension), met de bikhamer bewerkt (hammer dressed, pean-hammered, scabelled), gehard door koudhamering (cold hammered, cold worked, hammer-hardened, strain-hardened), gehamerd glas (hammered glass), gebikt (hammer dressed, pean-hammered, scabelled). (various references) | |
French | martelai, martelés, martelées, martelé, martelâmes. (various references) | |
German | hämmerte, gehämmert (beaten). (various references) | |
Greek | σφυρήλατοσ (forged). (various references) | |
Italian | martellare (hammer, pound, throb, thump). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 出る釘は打たれる (the nail which sticks out gets hammered down), 出る釘は打たれる (the nail which sticks out gets hammered down), 延板 (hammered-out plates), 延べ板 (hammered-out plates). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | のべいた (hammered-out plates), でるくぎはうたれる (the nail which sticks out gets hammered down). (various references) | |
Korean | 망치로 치는. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ammeredhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vidro martelado (hammered glass). (various references) | |
Spanish | martillado en frío (cold hammered, cold worked, hammer-hardened, strain-hardened), labra a escoda (hammer dressed, pean-hammered, scabelled). (various references) | |
Swedish | hamrad (beaten). (various references) | |
Thai | ดื่มเหล้า (liquor, tipple). (various references) | |
Turkish | dövme (basting, battering, beaten, beating, dressing down, forged, hammering, hiding, pound, pounding, swaging, tanning, tattoo, wrought), çekiçlenmiş (beaten), çekiçle işlenmiş. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Kings Chapter 10, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai epoihsen salwmwn triakosia dorata crusa elata triakosioi crusoi ephsan epi to doru to en |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Fecit quoque rex Salomon ducenta scuta de auro puro sescentos auri siclos dedit in lamminas scuti unius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And kyng Salomon made two hundrid sheeldis of moost pure gold; sexe hundrid ouncis of gold he yaf in a plate of o sheeld; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it. |
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| Language | 1 Kings Chapter 10, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Ug si hari Salomon naghimo sa duha ka gatus nga kalasag sa pinikpik nga bulawan; unom ka gatus ka siclo nga diha sa usa ka kalasag. |
| Chinese | 所 羅 門 王 用 錘 出 來 的 金 子 、 打 成 擋 牌 二 百 面 、 每 面 用 金 子 六 百 舍 客 勒 ． |
| Croatian | Kralj Salomon naèini tri stotine velikih štitova od kovanog zlata; za svaki je štit upotrijebio šest stotina zlatnih šekela; |
| Dutch | Ook maakte de koning Salomo tweehonderd rondassen van geslagen goud; zeshonderd sikkelen gouds liet hij opwegen tot elke rondas. |
| Finnish | Ja kuningas Salomo teetti pakotetusta kullasta kaksisataa suurta kilpeä ja käytti jokaiseen kilpeen kuusisataa sekeliä kultaa; |
| French | Le roi Salomon fit deux cents grands boucliers d`or battu, pour chacun desquels il employa six cents sicles d`or, |
| German | Und der König Salomo ließ machen zweihundert Schilde vom besten Gold, sechshundert Lot tat er zu einem Schild, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka oleh baginda raja Sulaimanpun disuruh perbuatkan dua ratus buah perisai dari pada emas tempawan, disuruhnya timbang emas enam ratus syikal akan sebuah perisai. |
| Maori | Na ka hanga e Kingi Horomona etahi pukupuku, e rua rau, he mea patu te koura: e ono rau nga hekere koura ki te pukupuku kotahi. |
| Norwegian | Og kong Salomo lot gjøre to hundre store skjold av uthamret gull - det gikk seks hundre sekel gull med til hvert skjold - |
| Portuguese | Também o rei Salomão fez duzentos paveses de ouro batido; de seiscentos siclos de ouro mandou fazer cada pavês; |
| Rumanian | Kmpqratul Solomon a fqcut douq sute de scuturi mari de aur bqtut, wi pentru fiecare din ele a kntrebuinyat wase sute de sicli de aur, |
| Swedish | Och konung Salomo lät göra två hundra stora sköldar av uthamrat guld och använde till var sådan sköld sex hundra siklar guld; |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "hammered": jackhammered, rehammered, sledgehammered. (additional references) | |
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"Hammered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hamarat, Hanmare, homered. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hammered" (pronounced ha"merd) |
| 4 | -a" m er d | clamored, enamored. |
| 3 | -m er d | armored, humored, murmured, rumored, shimmered, simmered. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-m-m-r" | |
-2 letters: adhere, dammer, hammed, hammer, hareem, harmed, header, hemmed, hemmer, hermae, rammed, reamed, remade. | |
-3 letters: adeem, ameer, armed, derma, dream, eared, edema, emmer, hared, harem, heard, heder, herma, madre, merde, ramee, rehem. | |
-4 letters: ahem, dame, dare, dear, deem, deer, deme, dere, derm, dram, dree, hade, haed, haem, hame, hard, hare, harm, head, hear, heed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-m-m-r" | |
+2 letters: hammerhead, rehammered. | |
+3 letters: hammerheads. | |
+4 letters: jackhammered, mimeographed, sledgehammer. | |
+5 letters: metamorphosed, sledgehammers. | |
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