hammer

martillo

Herramienta con mango y cabeza pesada, usada para golpear clavos u otros objetos.

En inglés sencillo: A tool with a heavy head and a handle, used to hit nails or other objects.

• Pass me the hammer, please.
• She used a hammer to fix the shelf.
• Two hammers lay beside the toolbox.

Expresiones frecuentes: a heavy hammer, claw hammer, hammer and nails

martillo, percutor

Pieza móvil de un arma que golpea otra pieza para provocar el disparo.

En inglés sencillo: A moving part of a gun that hits another part to make the gun fire.

• The gun's hammer was broken.
• He pulled back the hammer of the revolver.
• The hammer struck the firing pin.

Expresiones frecuentes: cock the hammer, gun hammer, hammer falls

martillazo

Golpe dado con un martillo.

En inglés sencillo: A hit made with a heavy tool used for driving nails.

• That nail needs a hammer.
• He gave the bent metal a hard hammer.
• One more hammer pushed the nail into place.

Cómo se usa: give something a hammer (Give that loose nail a hammer.)

Sinónimos: blow, hit

Expresiones frecuentes: give something a hammer, a hard hammer

martillo

Pequeño hueso del oído medio que ayuda a transmitir el sonido.

En inglés sencillo: A small bone in the middle ear that helps carry sound.

• The hammer is a tiny ear bone.
• Vibrations pass from the eardrum to the hammer.
• Damage to the hammer can affect hearing.

Sinónimos: malleus

Expresiones frecuentes: the ear's hammer, hammer and anvil

clavar, martillar

Golpear un clavo con un martillo para introducirlo en madera u otra superficie.

En inglés sencillo: To hit a nail with a heavy tool so it goes into wood or another surface.

• He hammered the nail in.
• We hammered nails into the wooden boards.
• Be careful when hammering near your fingers.

Cómo se usa: hammer something into something (She hammered a nail into the wall.)

Sinónimos: drive, pound

Expresiones frecuentes: hammer a nail, hammer something into something, hammer nails in

golpear, aporrear

Golpear algo con fuerza muchas veces, usando una herramienta, el puño u otra cosa.

En inglés sencillo: To hit something hard many times, with a tool, your fist, or something else.

• She hammered on the door.
• Rain hammered against the windows all night.
• The worker hammered the metal flat.

Cómo se usa: hammer on something (Someone was hammering on the front door.); hammer at something (He hammered at the metal with a heavy tool.)

Sinónimos: pound, batter, beat

Expresiones frecuentes: hammer on something, hammer at something, hammer something flat

palpitar, golpetear

Latir o golpetear con fuerza dentro de algo, a menudo produciendo sonidos repetidos.

En inglés sencillo: To beat or knock strongly inside something, often making repeated sounds.

• His heart hammered with fear.
• The engine's valves were hammering loudly.
• I felt my pulse hammering in my ears.

Cómo se usa: hammer in something (Her heart hammered in her chest.)

Sinónimos: pound, throb, knock

Expresiones frecuentes: hammer with fear, hammer inside something, hammer in something