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anvil

ˈænvəl
WordNet
Brass medal. Obverse: coat of arms, hanging from a wreath within the inscription. Reverse: crowned anvil between year within circle
Brass medal. Obverse: coat of arms, hanging from a wreath within the inscription. Reverse: crowned anvil between year within circle
  1. (n) anvil
    a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering
  2. (n) anvil
    the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes
Illustrations
The Personification of Tolerance. He has one leg on an anvil, the attribute of Patience. In his left hand the torch of knowledge and in his right hand a bowl with two eyes. These symbolize God. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a fourteen-part series on the subject of the way to achieve eternal bliss.
The Personification of Tolerance. He has one leg on an anvil, the attribute of Patience. In his left hand the torch of knowledge and in his right hand a bowl with two eyes. These symbolize God. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a fourteen-part series on the subject of the way to achieve eternal bliss.
Brass medal. Obverse: crowned cooper's anvil between three wedges and a drill above number 1, within dotted rim and circle. Reverse: ax, coopers hammer and passer, inside dotted rim and circle
Brass medal. Obverse: crowned cooper's anvil between three wedges and a drill above number 1, within dotted rim and circle. Reverse: ax, coopers hammer and passer, inside dotted rim and circle
Interior of a blacksmith shop. On the right a man working on an anvil.
Interior of a blacksmith shop. On the right a man working on an anvil.
Vulcan as god of fire with tools from his forge, hammers and anvil. The Latin text below the image refers to his wife, the golden Venus: AVREA MI CONIVNX VENVS EST SATVRNIA MATER. Copy after a print by Jacopo Giovanni Caraglio.
Vulcan as god of fire with tools from his forge, hammers and anvil. The Latin text below the image refers to his wife, the golden Venus: AVREA MI CONIVNX VENVS EST SATVRNIA MATER. Copy after a print by Jacopo Giovanni Caraglio.
Vulcan, by his anvil, is shocked to hear the news from Apollo that his wife Venus is committing adultery with Mars. Apollo holds his lyre and has a halo of sun rays around his head. Bottom right: O. Print of part 1 of a series of prints with symbols, consisting of three parts with 23, 17 and 20 prints respectively.
Vulcan, by his anvil, is shocked to hear the news from Apollo that his wife Venus is committing adultery with Mars. Apollo holds his lyre and has a halo of sun rays around his head. Bottom right: O. Print of part 1 of a series of prints with symbols, consisting of three parts with 23, 17 and 20 prints respectively.
The personification of Hope, with an anvil in her right hand as the symbol for patience. An anchor next to her. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a fourteen-part series on the subject of the way to achieve eternal bliss.
The personification of Hope, with an anvil in her right hand as the symbol for patience. An anchor next to her. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a fourteen-part series on the subject of the way to achieve eternal bliss.
Vulcan sits behind his anvil and listens to Apollo's story of his wife Venus's adultery. Cupid is there.
Vulcan sits behind his anvil and listens to Apollo's story of his wife Venus's adultery. Cupid is there.
Copper medal. Obverse: chestpiece male within legend. Reverse: scepter, standing on anvil between sword and laurel branch within inscription
Copper medal. Obverse: chestpiece male within legend. Reverse: scepter, standing on anvil between sword and laurel branch within inscription
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Anvil
    An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.
  2. Anvil
    (Anat) Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use.
  3. Anvil
    To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) anvil
    An iron block with a smooth face, usually of steel, on which metals are hammered and shaped. The black-smith's anvil commonly has a conical or pointed horizontal projection called a beak or horn, for working curved or annular pieces, and holes for the insertion of different sizes and shapes of cutters, swages, etc. The gold-beater's anvil is for the first hammering a simple block of steel, and for the second a block of marble. Anvils for steam-hammers are called anvil-blocks, and are of iron faced with steel, and supported on wooden piling.
  2. (n) anvil
    Figuratively, anything on which blows are struck.
  3. (n) anvil
    In anatomy, one of the small bones of the ear, the incus (which see). See cuts under ear and tympanic.
  4. (n) anvil
    In firearms, the resisting cone, plate, or bar against which the fulminate in a metallic cartridge is exploded. Wilhelm, Mil. Dict.
  5. (n) anvil
    Milit., a small pennon on the end of a lance.
  6. anvil
    To form or shape on an anvil.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Anvil
    an′vil an iron block on which smiths hammer metal into shape
Quotations
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
French Proverb
Henry Ward Beecher
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb
Claude A. Helvetius
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Claude A. Helvetius
Between the anvil and the hammer.
German Proverb
Idioms

On The Anvil - If something is on the anvil, it is being discussed or prepared but is not yet ready.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. anvelt, anfelt, anefelt, AS. anfilt, onfilt,; of uncertain origin; cf. OHG. anafalz, D. aanbeld,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. anfilte, on filte; on, on, and a supposed filtan, to weld, appearing also in Felt.

Usage in the news

Robb Reiner, left, Steve Kudlow and Glenn Five of the band Anvil arrive at the Los Angeles premiere of Anvil. usatoday.com

Anvil Paints & Coatings introduced the 1800 Two-Part Water Based Clear Urethane Concrete Sealer , a high-solids product with reduced VOC content and low odor. paintsquare.com

Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: Lady Gaga, Pierre Boulez with the CSO, Rob Mazurek, Anvil, Das Boton, and more. chicagoreader.com

For all their virtues — pathological obsession with safety comes to mind, as does anvil-like durability – Volvos aren't exciting. ired.com

Woodard, pulled a glowing piece of rod from the fire and placed it on an anvil. phillipscountyreview.com

Ed Littlefield is the Artist in Residence at Nome's Anvil City Science Academy. knom.org

Anvil & Lock-17 Tickets Up For Grabs Now. 1063thebuzz.com

We have two pairs of tickets to the Anvil and Lock-17 show in OKC this Wednesday so move off your butt and click on this: ANVIL & LOCK-17 TICKETS to claim those tickets as yours now. 1063thebuzz.com

While the ZL1's styling is as subtle as an anvil falling from the sky, its performance is defined by Chevy's attention to nuance. nytimes.com

The Story of Anvil," this Nov 23 release arrives in theaters just a month after the airing of HBO's "The Girl," an unflattering portrait of Alfred Hitchcock's troubled dealings with star Tippi Hedren during production on "The Bird... variety.com

The Story of Anvil" — was given a shot at directing "Hitchcock. sltrib.com

'Anvil guys' build a bar and restaurant ecosystem . chron.com

Digital Killed the Analog Star, Redux: A Live Tweetchat with Anvil Academic TODAY, 12pm-1pm EST . chronicle.com

Anvil updates DRC feasibility study. blog.emusician.com

The ballad swells out of a restrained beginning, adding choir harmonies, chants, strings and a beat invoking the sound of steel hitting an anvil. nzherald.co.nz

Usage in scientific papers

High pressure experiments have been revolutionized by the discovery of the diamond anvil cell (for a recent review see for example Struzhkin,Hemley and Mao,2004).
Two simple problems in semiclassical dense matter physics

The issues on the superconductivity of simple elements become active due to the developments of high pressure technique based on diamond-anvil cell (DAC).
Tc map and superconductivity of simple metals at high pressure

Experimentally, metal Li shows complex structural phase-transitions in diamond anvil when pressure increases up to 100 GPa.
Tc map and superconductivity of simple metals at high pressure

The pump and probe beams were focused on the film surface inside the cryostat or diamond anvil pressure cell to a spot ∼ 50 µm in diameter; and the focus area on the film was frequently changed to prevent photoinduced fatigue.
Evidence for Excimer Photoexcitations in an Ordered {\pi}-Conjugated Polymer Film

The MEH-PPV film was peeled off the substrate under a microscope, and placed in a diamond-anvil cell equipped with IR-transmitting windows, that was filled with a pressure-transmitting liquid, perfluoro-tri-butylamine to ensure hydrostatic pressure.
Evidence for Excimer Photoexcitations in an Ordered {\pi}-Conjugated Polymer Film

Usage in literature

The blacksmith leaves his anvil, the carpenter his bench, and the tailor his goose. "Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales" by Robert L. Taylor

On what anvils and wheels is the vapor pointed, twisted, hammered, whirled, as the potter's clay? "The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century" by John Ruskin

All the air was ajar with the resonant clamor of the hammer, and the anvil sang and sang, shrill and clear. "The Young Mountaineers" by Charles Egbert Craddock

Many broken shells are often found around the anvil. "The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4)" by J. Arthur Thomson

The roar of the guns to the right, left, and front of my brigade sounds like the continuous pounding on a thousand anvils. "The Citizen-Soldier" by John Beatty

Or a gunny sack weighted down with an anvil? "Highways in Hiding" by George Oliver Smith

Buffer States are just anvil States. "Current History, A Monthly Magazine" by New York Times

The blade of a jeweled sword was sunk deeply into the anvil. "Myths and Legends of All Nations" by Various

It is smelted in the furnace; it is forged into bars upon the anvil. "Short Studies on Great Subjects" by James Anthony Froude

We used to take button snake root, black snake root, chips of anvil iron and whiskey and make a tonic to cure consumption. "Slave Narratives, Oklahoma" by Various

Usage in poetry
Shall Thor with his hammer
Beat on the mountain,
As on an anvil,
A shackle and fetter?
"March" by Isabella Valancy Crawford Author object (312)
Beneath her, throbbing anvils shout,
And lift their voice with ringing peal,
While engines groan and toss about
Their tentacles of gleaming steel.
"A Blackbird's Nest" by Alexander Anderson
Sound is there none of wheel or wain,
Husht stands the anvil, husht the forge,
No shout is heard in rustic lane,
No axe resounds in timbered gorge.
"The Door Of Humility" by Alfred Austin Author object (26)
From field and forge there thronged embattled hosts,
And that one struck the anvil, this the lyre,
And from the furnaces of war her coasts
Were fringed with fire.
"Pax Britannica" by Alfred Austin Author object (26)
Aye, he wor a blacksmith, not one of the sort
Who shoe horses and sing anvil chorusses,
He used to shoe Dinasauss - big woolly Elephants,
Thumping great Brontosauruses.
"St. George and the Dragon" by Weston and Lee
At the forging of the Sword--
The startled air swift whirl'd
The red flames round the world,
From the Anvil where was smitten,
The steel, the Forgers wrought into the Sword.
"The Sword" by Isabella Valancy Crawford Author object (312)