strike

IPA: strˈaɪk

noun

  • (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
  • (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
  • A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
  • A blow or application of physical force against something.
  • (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
  • (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
  • (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
  • The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
  • (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
  • An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
  • (obsolete) Fullness of measure; the whole amount produced at one time.
  • (obsolete, by extension) Excellence; quality.
  • An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
  • (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
  • (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
  • The discovery of a source of something.
  • The strike plate of a door.
  • (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
  • (philately) A cancellation postmark.
  • A surname.

verb

  • (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
  • (physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
  • (transitive) To hit.
  • (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
  • (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
  • (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
  • (intransitive, dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.
  • (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
  • (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
  • (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
  • (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
  • (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
  • (personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
  • (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
  • (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
  • (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
  • (transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.
  • (transitive, dated) To quit (one's job).
  • (transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).
  • (transitive) To create an impression.
  • (sports) To score a goal.
  • To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
  • To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
  • (intransitive, UK, obsolete, slang) To steal or rob; to take forcibly or fraudulently.
  • (slang, archaic) To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.
  • To touch; to act by appulse.
  • (transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
  • (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
  • (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
  • (intransitive, by extension) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
  • To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
  • To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
  • (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
  • (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
  • (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
  • (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
  • (transitive) To make and ratify; to reach; to find.
  • To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
  • To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
  • (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
  • To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
  • (sugar-making, obsolete) To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.
  • To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
  • (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
  • To balance (a ledger or account).
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Examples of "strike" in Sentences

  • The strike was severe.
  • The incipient strike was broken.
  • The lightning strikes the stadium.
  • The hail of fire strikes the seas.
  • I was apprehensive to strike the vote.
  • The repression was successful in breaking the strike.
  • In a preemptive strike, the attack of the enemy is imminent.

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