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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
hamate is a noun meaning "the wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers". It carries one recorded sense.
the wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hamate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.