hit
IPA: hˈɪt
noun
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or 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.
- (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- Acronym of high-intensity interval training. [(fitness) A fitness training regimen which generally involves short periods of vigorous exercise followed by short breaks.]
- Acronym of high-intensity training.
- Abbreviation of hyperspectral imaging technique. or Abbreviation of hyper-spectral imaging technique.
- Acronym of human intelligence task.
- Abbreviation of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
- Abbreviation of herd immunity threshold.
verb
- (heading, physical) To strike.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (figurative, transitive, intransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (heading) To attain, to achieve.
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (heading, games) To make a play.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) to work out
adjective
- Very successful.
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Examples of "hit" in Sentences
- The hit bruise his arms.
- He got hit by a thunderbolt.
- He was not able to hit the buttock.
- It hits the nail squarely on the head.
- The beast is hit and crumples to the floor.
- A drop hit is an underhand hit by bouncing the ball first.
- He managed to hold on until the cycle hit the base of the ramp.
- Sheila was hit in the head by an aerosol can and hit the ground.
- Windstorms hit, as they had on the plains in the past, but now there was nothing to hold down the parched earth.
- Anytime you have to make a call to your publicist to forewarn the press on some pictures that are about to hit the internet.
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