English to afrikaans meaning of

Volgens die woordeboek het die woord "hamer" verskeie betekenisse:Selfstandige naamwoord: 'n Gereedskap met 'n swaar kop wat aan 'n handvatsel vasgemaak is, wat gebruik word om materiaal te slaan of te stamp, gewoonlik om te bestuur spykers in hout of om voorwerpe te vorm, te breek of te slaan.Voorbeeldsin: Hy het 'n hamer gebruik om die planke aanmekaar te spyker.Werkwoord (oorgaand): Om met of asof met 'n hamer te slaan of te slaan; om met herhaalde houe te slaan of te smee.Voorbeeldsin: Die smid het die rooiwarm yster op die aambeeld gehamer.Werkwoord (onoorgaanbaar): Om herhaalde of kragtige pogings aan te wend om iets te bereik.Voorbeeldsin: Hy het op die sleutelbord gehamer en probeer om sy verslag te voltooi.Selfstandige naamwoord (informeel): 'n Persoon of ding wat baie suksesvol of indrukwekkend is.Voorbeeldsin: Die nuwe slimfoon is 'n ware hamer wat prestasie betref.Selfstandige naamwoord (sport): 'n Kragtige hou of hou, veral in sportsoorte soos tennis of gholf.Voorbeeldsin: Sy het 'n kragtige hamer wat die bal agter in die net laat beland het.Selfstandige naamwoord (musiek): 'n Deel van 'n klavier of ander musiekinstrument wat 'n snaar of ander klinkende element slaan om klank te produseer.Voorbeeldsin: Die pianis het die klawers met die hamers geslaan om 'n pragtige melodie voort te bring.

Sentence Examples

  1. Urkzal was terrible to behold, obliterating fiends with his hammer as he ploughed on to guard the other castles.
  2. If a fire wanted fanning, it could readily be fanned with a newspaper, and as the government grew weaker, I have no doubt that leather and iron acquired durability in proportion, for, in a very short time, there was not a pair of bellows in all Rotterdam that ever stood in need of a stitch or required the assistance of a hammer.
  3. It was all going well, the music pounded, and the guitar was off the rails with tons of hammer ons.
  4. It was automatic like the kick after a quack taps your knee with a rubber hammer.
  5. Just in case there was actually someone there, she grabbed a hammer from the toolbox at her feet.
  6. I was whistling, wondering at the physics involved in a particularly interesting shot, when a sledge hammer hit me in the back of the head.
  7. Hammering against my chest like a sledge hammer, my heart throbbed painfully.
  8. You people and all your education, what the hell do you know when someone throws a hammer on your skull?
  9. I heard a shot, the report of a gun, and something hit my chest like a sledge hammer.
  10. Then I dragged myself into my apartment with my head pounding, my body aching and, thanks to my comic book heroics in front of Connie, my hand throbbing as if it had been whacked by a cartoon hammer.

TV Series Examples

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Stood over him, hammer in the air.