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jackhammer

/jak-ham-er/US // ˈdʒækˌhæm ər //UK // (ˈdʒækˌhæmə) //

大锤子,千斤顶,大锤,千里马

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a portable drill operated by compressed air and used to drill rock, break up pavement, etc.

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Examples

  • This happens despite the evidence that Shotspotters are often triggered by loud sounds like jackhammers, nail guns or engine noises.

  • So as we abandon the notion that we should all be riding around on 120-psi jackhammers with corn-cob cassettes, we should also at least entertain the notion that our diamond frames can, at times, be pointlessly inhibiting.

  • The company boasts that it can tell the difference between gunfire and other loud noises — a jackhammer, for instance — and pinpoint the location of those shots to within 25 meters.

  • Wood is an undrafted 6-foot-10 jackhammer with 3-point range who finally teased his ability toward the end of the 2019-20 regular season.

  • Result: a supersonic, pulsating jackhammer of 1,700-degree F exhaust gas.

  • This is all done with the subtlety of someone wielding a jackhammer.

  • The cops, though, had put giant industrial earmuffs on, the kind of thing you saw jackhammer operators wearing.

  • They began knocking scales loose with the jackhammer and cutting into the leathery skin underneath with sonocutters.

  • The noise a jackhammer makes isn't pleasant at all, but if it doesn't make that noise, you figure it isn't functioning properly.