Hit
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noun
(1) (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)
"He came all the way around on Williams' hit"
(2) A conspicuous success
"That song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"
"That new Broadway show is a real smasher"
"The party went with a bang"
(3) The act of contacting one thing with another
"Repeated hitting raised a large bruise"
"After three misses she finally got a hit"
(4) A connection made via the internet to another website
"WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"
(5) A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
"It has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
(6) A dose of a narcotic drug
(7) (physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together
"The collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction"
verb
(8) Gain points in a game
"The home team scored many times"
"He hit a home run"
"He hit .300 in the past season"
(9) Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
"The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939"
"We must strike the enemy's oil fields"
"In the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2"
(10) Hit with a missile from a weapon
(11) Hit the intended target or goal
(12) Consume to excess
"Hit the bottle"
(13) Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
"We were hit by really bad weather"
"He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"
"The earthquake struck at midnight"
(14) Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically
"The pianist strikes a middle C"
"Strike `z' on the keyboard"
"Her comments struck a sour note"
(15) Hit against; come into sudden contact with
"The car hit a tree"
"He struck the table with his elbow"
(16) Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
"He hit her hard in the face"
(17) Cause to move by striking
"Hit a ball"
(18) Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
"The thermometer hit 100 degrees"
"This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"
(19) Reach a destination, either real or abstract
"We hit Detroit by noon"
"The water reached the doorstep"
"We barely made it to the finish line"
"I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
(20) Drive something violently into a location
"He hit his fist on the table"
"She struck her head on the low ceiling"
(21) Cause to experience suddenly
"Panic struck me"
"An interesting idea hit her"
"A thought came to me"
"The thought struck terror in our minds"
"They were struck with fear"
(22) Encounter by chance
"I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"
(23) Kill intentionally and with premeditation
"The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
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Verb
- To administer a blow to.
- One boy hit the other.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- The ball hit the fence.
- To manage to touch in the right place.
- I hit the jackpot.
- To kill a person on the instructions of a third party.
- Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- Hit me.
- To come up to bat.
- Jones hit for the pitcher.
- To go (somewhere).
- We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
- To begin; to start; to open.
- The movie hits theaters in December.
- To use.
- The external web servers hit DBSRV7, the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
- To affect negatively.
- The economy was hit by a recession.
- To have sex with.
- I'd hit that.
- To murder with premeditation for criminal or political purposes.
Noun
- A blow; a punch.
- The hit was very slight.
- A success, especially in the entertainment industry.
- The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The result(s) of a search of a computer system or, for example, the entire Internet using a search engine
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- Where am I going to get my next hit?
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.