hit in English dictionary

  • hit

    Meanings and definitions of "hit"

    • (dialectal) It.
    • (transitive) To administer a blow to.
    • (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
    • To manage to touch in the right place.
    • To kill a person on the instructions of a third party.
    • (card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
    • (baseball) To come up to bat.
    • (colloquial) To go (somewhere).
    • (colloquial) To begin; to start; to open.
    • (computing, programming) To use.
    • (transitive) To affect negatively.
    • (figuratively, US, slang) To have sex with.
    • To murder with premeditation for criminal or political purposes.
    • A blow; a punch.
    • A success, especially in the entertainment industry.
    • An attack on a location, person or people.
    • (computing) (Internet) The result(s) of a search of a computer system or, for example, the entire Internet using a search engine
    • (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
    • An approximately correct answer in a test set.
    • (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
    • (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
    • A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
    • noun
      A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
    • noun
      A success, especially in the entertainment industry.
    • noun
      An attack on a location, person or people.
    • noun
      (computing, Internet)
      The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine
    • noun
      (Internet)
      A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
    • noun
      An approximately correct answer in a test set.
    • noun
      (baseball)
      The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
    • noun
      (colloquial)
      A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
    • noun
      A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
    • noun
      (dated)
      A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
    • noun
      A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
    • pronoun
      (dialectal)
      It.
    • verb
      (heading, physical)
      To strike.
    • verb
      (transitive, colloquial)
      To briefly visit.
    • verb
      (transitive, informal)
      To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
    • verb
      (heading)
      To attain, to achieve.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To affect negatively.
    • verb
      (heading, games)
      To make a play.
    • verb
      (transitive, computing, programming)
      To use; to connect to.
    • verb
      (transitive, US, slang)
      To have sex with.
    • verb
      (transitive, US, slang)
      To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana
    • dose of an illegal or addictive drug
    • To give a blow
    • To manage to touch in the right place
    • To kill a person on the instructions of a third party
    • To go (somewhere)
    • To begin
    • To affect negatively
    • blow, punch
    • success, especially in the entertainment industry
    • attack on a location
    • A successful retrieval of a record matching a query.
    • To give one blow or more with a swift movement.
    • A song that is very popular for a while.
    • A record from a database that results from a given search query.
    • To impact with another object, resulting in a change of direction and/or velocity of one or both objects.
    • safe hit (baseball)
    • Act or effect of hitting.
    • hit(2)
    • (to) strike
    • beat (on something)
    • hit (on the body)
    • per ...
    • hit (e.g. to have a car hit something or someone)
    • fire (e.g. an arrow)
    • hitting something that was aimed at
    • (direct) hit
    • hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone)
    • hit (the mark)
    • To unlawfully and intentionally kill another human being.
    • To give a blow and make contact.
    • noun
      a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"
    • noun
      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"
    • noun
      a dose of a narcotic drug
    • noun
      a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
    • noun
      (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
    • noun
      (physics) a 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"
    • noun
      the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"
    • verb
      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"
    • verb
      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"
    • verb
      cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"
    • verb
      deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"
    • verb
      drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"
    • verb
      encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"
    • verb
      gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"
    • verb
      hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"
    • verb
      hit the intended target or goal
    • verb
      hit with a missile from a weapon
    • verb
      kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
    • verb
      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"
    • verb
      pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars"
    • verb
      produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments; "The pianist strikes a middle C"; "strike `z' on the keyboard"
    • verb
      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"
    • verb
      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"

    Synonyms of "hit" in English dictionary

    murder, gain, succeed are the top synonyms of "hit" in the English thesaurus.

    Antonyms of "hit" in English dictionary

    miss is the antonym of "hit" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of hit

    • hit ( third-person singular simple present hits, present participle hitting, simple past and past participle hit)
    • hit ( subjective and objective hit, reflexive and intensive hitself, possessive adjective and noun hits)
    • hit ( plural  hits)
    • lm  liczba mnoga hits hit, ~, ~; he ~s; be ~ting
    • hit (plural hits)
    • hit (subjective and objective hit, reflexive and intensive hitself, possessive adjective and noun hits)
    • hit (third-person singular simple present hits, present participle hitting, simple past hit or (dialectal) hat or (rare, dialectal) het, past participle hit or (dialectal) hitten)
  • HIT

    Meanings and definitions of "hit"

    • noun
      Acronym of [i]high-intensity interval training[/i].
    • noun
      Acronym of [i]high-intensity training[/i].
    • noun
      Abbreviation of [i]hyperspectral imaging technique[/i]. or Abbreviation of [i]hyper-spectral imaging technique[/i].

    Grammar and declension of hit

    • HIT (plural HITs)
  • Hit

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