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n. A hammer that consists of a large, heavy, broad and flat block of metal (the head) attached to a handle typically 0.5 meter to 1 meter long. The sledgehammer's design is meant to allow it to be swung powerfully, and to distribute force over a wide area upon impact. vb. To strike with a sledgehammer.
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A sledgehammer is a tool with a large, flat, often metal head, attached to a lever (or handle). The size of its head allows a sledgehammer to apply more force than other hammers of similar size. Along with the mallet, it shares the ability to distribute force over a wide area. This is in contrast to other types of hammers, which concentrate force in a relatively small area.
A sledgehammer is a large manual impact tool which has a metal head distinguishing it from a mallet with head made of softer material.
Sledgehammer or Sledge Hammer may also refer to:
"Sledgehammer" is a song written, composed and performed by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, which appeared on his 1986 album So, produced by Gabriel and Daniel Lanois. It hit No. 1 in Canada on 21 July 1986, where it spent four weeks; No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States on 26 July 1986; and No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart, thanks in part to a popular and influential music video. It was his biggest hit in North America and ties with " Games Without Frontiers" as his biggest hit in the United Kingdom.
The song's music video won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and Best British Video at the 1987 Brit Awards. Gabriel was also nominated for three Grammy Awards: Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, Song of the Year and Record of the Year. As of 2011, "Sledgehammer" is the most played music video in the history of MTV.
Operation Sledgehammer ( Turkish Balyoz Harekâtı) is the name of an alleged Turkish secularist military coup plan dating back to 2003, in response to the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) gaining office.
Claims of the plot first surfaced in the liberal Taraf newspaper, which was passed documents detailing plans to bomb two Istanbul mosques and accuse Greece of shooting down a Turkish plane over the Aegean Sea. The plan was to stir up chaos and justify a military coup. The army said the plans had been discussed but only as part of a scenario-based planning exercise at a military seminar.
The case was heavily criticised by the political opposition for the suspected involvement of high-ranking bureaucrats and legal officials which were close to the Cemaat movement, an Islamist movement led by exiled cleric and (then) AKP ally Fethullah Gülen. Numerous legal flaws and improper procedures throughout the case, and the lack of a response by the government also drew concern. This included the case that the original Sledgehammer document, claimed to have been produced in 2003, was actually created using Microsoft Word 2007. Other irregularities included the forging of signatures of high-ranking military officers, such as that of Chief of General Staff Çetin Doğan.
In 2012 some 300 of the 365 suspects were sentenced to prison terms, while 34 suspects were acquitted. The case was to be appealed.
On 19 June 2014 all the accused were ordered released from prison, pending a retrial, after a finding by the Constitutional Court that their rights had been violated. The timing of the decision fuelled further accusations regarding the involvement of the Cemaat movement initially, since by 2014 the AKP and Gülen had fallen out with each other. Furthermore, the then-AKP Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan openly accused the Cemaat movement of infiltrating the judiciary following a government corruption scandal, beginning a large-scale operation of either removing or relocating judicial and law enforcement employees.
On 31 March 2015 all 236 suspects were acquitted after the case’s prosecutor argued that digital data in the files submitted as evidence in the case were faked and did not constitute evidence.
Sledgehammer is a ride at Canada's Wonderland. The Huss ride was opened to the public on May 4, 2003 and continues to operate today. Sledgehammer is also the world's first and only 'giant jumping machine' to be ever made. Over the past number of years, the ride has been faced with a number of serious mechanical issues closing the ride constantly and making it almost unpredictable for the public to know a re-opening date.
Sledgehammer is a 1983 horror film written and directed by David A. Prior.
"Sledgehammer" is a song recorded by American girl group Fifth Harmony. It was written by Jonas Jeberg, Meghan Trainor and Sean Douglas, and was produced by both Jeberg and Harvey Mason, Jr.. It was released on October 28, 2014 as the second single from their debut studio album Reflection (2015). It is a synthpop and electronic dance song about strong feelings for someone that are hard to ignore.
The song peaked at number 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100, making it their first top 40 entry. It also appeared on the US Mainstream Top 40 and Adult Pop Songs charts at numbers 21 and 36 respectively. The song was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on June 26, 2015. In Canada, it reached a peak of number 63 on the Canadian Hot 100.
An accompanying music video for the song, choreographed and directed by Fatima Robinson, was released on the band's Vevo page. They first performed the song live at the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards pre-show and would make later appearances on Good Morning America, Access Hollywood Live, The Talk, the Today Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
"Sledgehammer" is the season premiere of the twelfth season of the American television medical drama Grey's Anatomy, and the 246th episode overall. It aired on September 24, 2015 on ABC in the United States. The episode was written by Stacy McKee and directed by Kevin McKidd. On its initial airing the episode was watched by 9.55 million viewers and opened up to positive reviews from television critics. Earlier in April 2015, Patrick Dempsey had revealed that he would be leaving the show after the eleventh season despite having signed a contract through another season. Grey's Anatomy centers around a group of physicians struggling to balance their professional lives with their personal lives.
The episode focuses on the show's protagonist Dr. Meredith Grey's new living arrangement with her half-sister Dr. Maggie Pierce and her sister in law Dr. Amelia Shepherd in her old house after having lost her husband. Dr. Miranda Bailey fights to be the new Chief of Grey-Sloan Memorial with support from Dr. Richard Webber. Dr. Arizona Robbins and Dr. Callie Torres move on with their lives while the former looks for a new roommate. Dr. Alex Karev and Dr. Jo Wilson and Dr. Jackson Avery and Dr. April Kepner deal with their relationship problems with all the doctors trying to help two young girls who tried to commit suicide by jumping in front of a train after being bullied for being in love.
"Sledgehammer" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna. It was released on June 27, 2016 as a single to promote Star Trek Beyond. It plays during the film's end credits but is not included on the film's soundtrack. The song was written by Sia Furler, Robyn Fenty and Jesse Shatkin. A music video for the song was released on June 30, 2016, and shows Rihanna performing magical acts on a foreign planet. The video was shot entirely on IMAX cameras.
Usage examples of "sledgehammer".
Both carried sledgehammers, but only one set out for the Benthic Marine submersible.
The titanothere bellows and lowers its ten foot wide sledgehammer of a head.
Mister Gench contends that the notorious sledgehammer sequence, cited by reviewers and critics as a grisly triumph of the latest in special effects technology, actually took place and was filmed with an ultra high speed sixteen millimeter camera at up to two hundred forty frames per second, requiring from four to ten times the lighting employed in routine production shots.
Pluto went at the armored door with a couple of heavy sledgehammers and we managed tcf get it opened wide enough for us to be able to squeeze out.
Zeldo and a couple of other slangy pizza-eating beards from America had laid claim to one end of Building 1 and set up their own little outpost of heavy metal music and novelty foam-rubber sledgehammers for pounding on their workstations when they got frustrated.
The bullet caught Baron Sharpe high in the chest, smashing through the clavicle, the sledgehammer impact shattering ribs and bowling him off his feet.
The great open-pit mine around them rang with the sounds of pick and sledgehammer and shovel, with the clang of ore thrown into steel cocopans, with the voices of men and the hooves of mules.
Shock hit her like a sledgehammer, congealing her blood, numbing her fingertips.
That exercise had carried him all the way through his own brief part in the space battle, while he fired his popgun weaponry and evaded counterblows like a gnat ducking sledgehammers, through the concussions of near-misses and the shriek of tortured metal, and into an aftermath of dazed, confused bemusement that he did not seem to be dead after all.
There was nothing that could be done: sledgehammers and crowbars would have had but a minimal effect and the chances were high that people wielding those would have ended up, in very short order, over the side: on those lurching ice-rink decks footing would have been impossible to maintain.
He remembered vividly the terrible blast of pain which had nearly finished him back in Deaner Beckmann's asteroid swarm, when the quantum discontinuities of Trumpet's battle with Soar— and the effects of Trumpet's dispersion field—had hit his EM prosthesis like a sledgehammer.
The new boy at the Scrubba- Dubba would straighten from the headlights he had been soaping, the sponge glove still on his hand, looking north as that huge and portentous sound sledgehammered its way into the thin copper routine of the day: WHAMM!
The acoustic shock wave rang through the entire station as if a god had smashed it with a cosmic sledgehammer.
Two would take the front door, one carrying the Wingmaster, the other wielding a seven-pound sledgehammer and/or bolt cutters if necessary.
As fast as they could get out of bed, men spilled from their homes, clutching pitchforks and scythes, axes, shepherd’s crooks sharpened to resemble pikes, sledgehammers, knives and bucksaws, ordinary clubs, an occasional sword, and more than a few hunting bows.