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Definition: Hammerhead |
HammerheadNoun1. These words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence. 2. The striking part of a hammer. 3. Medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hammerhead" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
Synonyms: HammerheadSynonyms: blockhead (n), bonehead (n), dunce (n), dunderhead (n), fuckhead (n), hammerhead shark (n), knucklehead (n), loggerhead (n), lunkhead (n), muttonhead (n), numskull (n), shithead (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hammerhead |
| English words defined with "hammerhead": Balance fish, bonnet shark, bonnethead, broad hatchet ♦ family Sphyrnidae ♦ Hammer fish, Hammer-headed shark ♦ peen ♦ shovelhead, Sphyrna tiburo, Sphyrnidae. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hammerhead": airhammer ♦ LASTING TOOL. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Hammerhead (1968) | |
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 | Hammerhead shark passing bow of ALBATROSS IV while ship underway Apparently a hammerhead migration as ship saw hundreds of hammerheads swimming to northeast during the day. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | A master wood carver with a beautiful rendition of a hammerhead shark. Credit: Small World. |
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| "Hammerhead" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hammerhead" is used about 7 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "hammerhead": hammerhead shark ♦ smalleye hammerhead ♦ smooth hammerhead. Additional references. | |
| 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 "hammerhead"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | koka e çekanit. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | риба-чук, глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), глава на чук, вид юж.-афр. птица. (various references) | |
Czech | žralok kladivoun. (various references) | |
Danish | almindelig hammerhaj (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead). (various references) | |
Dutch | hamerhaai (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead), gewone hamerhaai (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead). (various references) | |
Finnish | vasarahai (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead). (various references) | |
French | requin-marteau lisse (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead), requin-marteau commun (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead), requin-marteau (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead), marteau (hammer), maillet (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead), \SPZ (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead). (various references) | |
German | Hammerhai (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead), Glatter Hammerhai (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead). (various references) | |
Greek | σφύρνα (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead), πατερίτσα (crosier, crutch), ζύγαινα (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead). (various references) | |
Italian | pesce martello (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | '木鮫 (hammerhead shark). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅもくざめ (hammerhead shark). (various references) | |
Manx | kione oard. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ammerheadhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tubarao-martelo (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead), tubarão-martelo (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead), martelo (hammer, malleus, striker). (various references) | |
Russian | головка молотка, молот-рыба (hammerhead shark), молотрыба. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | glava čekića. (various references) | |
Spanish | pez martillo (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead). (various references) | |
Swedish | hammarhaj (common hammerhead, hammerhead shark, smooth hammerhead). (various references) | |
Thai | ปลาฉลามหัวค้อน จำพวก Sphyrna. (various references) | |
Turkish | çekiç balığı, çekiç başı (hammer face). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Sphyrna zygaena, Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus), Zygaena malleus. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "hammerhead": hammerheads. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-h-h-m-m-r" | |
-2 letters: hammered. | |
-4 letters: adhere, dammar, dammer, dharma, hammed, hammer, hareem, harmed, header, hemmed, hemmer, hermae, madame, rammed, reamed, remade. | |
-5 letters: aahed, adeem, ahead, ameer, areae, armed, damar, derma, drama, dream, eared, edema, emmer, hared, harem, heard, heder, herma, madam, madre, merde, ramee, rehem. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-h-h-m-m-r" | |
+1 letter: hammerheads. | |
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