Hammer vs. Nail

Hammernoun

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

Nailnoun

The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.

‘When I'm nervous I bite my nails.’;

Hammernoun

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

Nailnoun

The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.

Hammernoun

(anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.

Nailnoun

The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.

Hammernoun

(music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.

Nailnoun

The claw of a bird or other animal.

Hammernoun

(sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.

Nailnoun

A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.

Hammernoun

(curling) The last stone in an end.

Nailnoun

A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.

Hammernoun

(Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.

Nailnoun

An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 1/20th of an ell or 1/16th of a yard (2.25 inches or 5.715 cm).

Hammernoun

Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.

Nailverb

(transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.

‘He nailed the placard to the post.’;

Hammernoun

One who, or that which, smites or shatters.

‘St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.’;

Nailverb

(intransitive) To drive a nail.

‘He used the ax head for nailing.’;

Hammerverb

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

Nailverb

(transitive) To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.

Hammerverb

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

Nailverb

(slang) To catch.

Hammerverb

(figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.

Nailverb

To expose as a sham.

Hammerverb

(sports) To hit particularly hard.

Nailverb

To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.

‘I really nailed that test.’;

Hammerverb

To ride very fast.

Nailverb

To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.

Hammerverb

(intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.

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

Nailverb

Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.

Hammerverb

To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly

‘We hammered them 5-0!’;

Nailverb

To spike, as a cannon.

Hammernoun

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

‘With busy hammers closing rivets up.’;

Nailverb

(transitive) To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.

Hammernoun

Something which in form or action resembles the common hammer

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

Nailnoun

the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.

‘His nayles like a briddes claws were.’;

Hammernoun

A spherical weight attached to a flexible handle and hurled from a mark or ring. The weight of head and handle is usually not less than 16 pounds.

Nailnoun

The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.

Hammerverb

To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.

Nailnoun

A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head{2}, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.

Hammerverb

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

Nailnoun

A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.

Hammerverb

To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; - usually with out.

‘Who was hammering out a penny dialogue.’;

Nailverb

To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.

‘He is now dead, and nailed in his chest.’;

Hammerverb

To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.

‘Whereon this month I have been hammering.’;

Nailverb

To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.

‘The rivets of your arms were nailed with gold.’;

Hammerverb

To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.

‘Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.’;

Nailverb

To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.

‘When they came to talk of places in town, you saw at once how I nailed them.’;

Hammernoun

the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled

Nailverb

To spike, as a cannon.

Hammernoun

a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking

Nailnoun

horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits

Hammernoun

an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible

Nailnoun

a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener

Hammernoun

the ossicle attached to the eardrum

Nailnoun

a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard

Hammernoun

a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw

Nailverb

attach something somewhere by means of nails;

‘nail the board onto the wall’;

Hammernoun

a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate

Nailverb

take into custody;

‘the police nabbed the suspected criminals’;

Hammernoun

a power tool for drilling rocks

Nailverb

hit hard;

‘He smashed a 3-run homer’;

Hammernoun

the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows);

‘the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard’; ‘the pounding of feet on the hallway’;

Nailverb

succeed in obtaining a position;

‘He nailed down a spot at Harvard’;

Hammerverb

beat with or as if with a hammer;

‘hammer the metal flat’;

Nailverb

succeed at easily;

‘She sailed through her exams’; ‘You will pass with flying colors’; ‘She nailed her astrophysics course’;

Hammerverb

create by hammering;

‘hammer the silver into a bowl’; ‘forge a pair of tongues’;

Nailverb

locate exactly;

‘can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?’; ‘The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome’;

Hammer

A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object. This can be, for example, to drive nails into wood, to shape metal (as with a forge), or to crush rock.

‘head’;

Nailverb

complete a pass