Definitions for Hit
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. hitnoun

   (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)

   "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"

2. hit, hitting, strikingnoun

   the act of contacting one thing with another

   "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"

3. hit, smash, smasher, strike, bangnoun

   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"

4. collision, hitnoun

   (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"

5. hitnoun

   a dose of a narcotic drug

6. hitnoun

   a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate

   "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"

7. hitverb

   a connection made via the internet to another website

   "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"

8. hitverb

   cause to move by striking

   "hit a ball"

9. hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide withverb

   hit against; come into sudden contact with

   "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"

10. hitverb

    deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument

    "He hit her hard in the face"

11. reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gainverb

    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"

12. hit, strikeverb

    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"

13. shoot, hit, pipverb

    hit with a missile from a weapon

14. stumble, hitverb

    encounter by chance

    "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"

15. score, hit, tally, rack upverb

    gain points in a game

    "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"

16. hit, strike, come toverb

    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"

17. strike, hitverb

    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"

18. murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, removeverb

    kill intentionally and with premeditation

    "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"

19. hit, strikeverb

    drive something violently into a location

    "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"

20. reach, hit, attainverb

    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"

21. strike, hitverb

    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"

22. hitverb

    consume to excess

    "hit the bottle"

23. hitverb

    hit the intended target or goal

24. hitverb

    pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to

    "He tries to hit on women in bars"

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hitnoun

   An act of murder performed for hire, esp. by a professional assassin.

2. Hitnoun

   A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit; esp. A performance, as a musical recording, movie, or play, which achieved great popularity or acclaim; also used of books or objects of commerce which become big sellers; as, the new notebook computer was a big hit with business travellers.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hitnoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. A stroke.

   The king hath laid, that in a dozen passes between you and him, he shall not exceed you three hits. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   So he the fam’d Cilician fencer prais’d,
   And at each hit with wonder seem’d amaz’d. John Dryden, Juven.

   2. A lucky chance.

   Have all his ventures fail’d? What, not one hit? William Shakespeare.

   To suppose a watch, by the blind hits of chance, to perform diversity of orderly motions, without the regulation of art, this were the more pardonable absurdity. Joseph Glanvill.

   If the rule we judge by be uncertain, it is odds but we shall judge wrong; and if we should judge right, yet it is not properly skill, but chance; not a true judgment, but a lucky hit. Robert South, Sermons.

   But with more lucky hit than those
   That use to make the stars depose. Hudibras, p. i.

   The fisherman’s waiting, and the lucky hit it had in the conclusion, tells us, that honest endeavours will not fail. Roger L'Estrange.

   These hits of words a true poet often finds, without seeking. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

   If casual concourse did the world compose,
   And things and hits fortuitous arose,
   Then any thing might come from any thing;
   For how from chance can constant order spring? Richard Blackmore.

   If at first he minds his hits,
   And drinks champaigne among the wits,
   Five deep he toasts the tow’ring lasses. Matthew Prior.

2. To HITverb

   Etymology: from ictus, Latin, Minshew, from hitte, Danish, to throw at random, Junius.

   1. To strike; to touch with a blow.

   When I first saw her I was presently stricken; and I, like a foolish child, that when any thing hits him will strike himself again upon it, would needs look again, as though I would persuade mine eyes that they were deceived. Philip Sidney, b. i.

   His conscience shall hit him in the teeth, and tell him his sin and folly. Robert South, Sermons.

   2. To touch the mark; not to miss.

   Is he a god that ever flies the light?
   Or naked he, disguis’d in all untruth?
   If he be blind, how hitteth he so right? Philip Sidney, b. ii.

   So hard it is to tremble, and not to err, and to hit the mark with a shaking hand. Robert South, Sermons.

   3. To attain; to reach the point.

   Were I but twenty-one,
   Your father’s image is so hit in you,
   His very air, that I should call you brother,
   As I did him. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

   Search every comment that your care can find,
   Some here, some there, may hit the poet’s mind. Wentworth Dillon.

   Birds learning tunes, and their endeavours to hit the notes right, put it past doubt that they have perception, and retain ideas, and use them for patterns. John Locke.

   Here’s an opportunity to shew how great a bungler my author is in hitting features. Francis Atterbury.

   4. To strike a ruling passion.

   Hail, divinest melancholy!
   Whose saintly visage is too bright
   To hit the sense of human sight. John Milton.

   There you hit him: St. Dominick loves charity exceedingly; that argument never fails with him. John Dryden, Spanish Fryar.

   5. To Hit off. To strike out; to fix or determine luckily.

   What prince soever can hit off this great secret, need know no more either for his own safety, or that of the people he governs. William Temple.

   6. To Hit out. To perform by good luck.

   Having the sound of these ancient poets still ringing in his ears, he mought needs in singing hit out some of their tunes. Edmund Spenser, Pastorals.

3. To Hitverb

   1. To clash; to collide.

   If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another; or what can make distinct surfaces in an uniform extension? John Locke.

   The bones, teeth, and shells being sustained in the water with these metallick corpuscles, and the said corpuscles meeting with and hitting upon those bodies, become conjoined with them. John Woodward, Natural History.

   2. To chance luckily; to succeed by accident; not to miss.

   Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
   Where most it promises; and oft it hits
   Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits. William Shakespeare.

   There is a kind of conveying of effectual and imprinting passages amongst compliments, which is of singular use, if a man can hit upon it. Francis Bacon, Essay 53.

   3. To succeed; not to miscarry.

   The experiment of binding of thoughts would be diversified, and you are to note whether it hits for the most part. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   But thou bring’st valour too and wit,
   Two things that seldom fail to hit. Hudibras, p. i.

   This may hit, ’tis more than barely possible; for friars have free admittance into every house. John Dryden, Spanish Fryar.

   All human race would fain be wits,
   And millions miss for one that hits. Jonathan Swift.

   4. To light on.

   You’ve hit upon the very string, which touch’d,
   Echoes the sound, and jars within my soul;
   There lies my grief. John Dryden, Spanish Fryar.

   It is much, if men were from eternity, that they should not find out the way of writing before that time: sure he was a fortunate man, who, after men had been eternally so dull as not to find it out, had the luck at last to hit upon it. John Tillotson, Sermons.

   There’s a just medium betwixt eating too much and too little; and this dame had hit upon’t, when the matter was so ordered that the hen brought her every day an egg. Roger L'Estrange.

   None of them hit upon the art. Joseph Addison, Guardian.

   There’s but a true and a false prediction in any telling of fortune; and a man that never hits on the right side, cannot be called a bad guesser, but must miss out of design. Richard Bentley.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hit

   Hit is a song written and recorded by Icelandic alternative rock band The Sugarcubes. It was released on 30 December 1991 as the lead single from their third and final studio album, Stick Around for Joy. The song became the band's most successful single, reaching number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart in the US, as well as peaking at number 17 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was accompanied by a music video directed by Óskar Jónasson.

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1. Hit

   A hit generally refers to a forceful impact or collision between two objects, typically resulting in physical contact or damage. It can also refer to a successful or popular song, movie, or other form of entertainment that receives significant attention and positive reception.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hit

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2. Hit

   3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth

3. Hit

   of Hit

4. Hitverb

   to reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at)

5. Hitverb

   to reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit

6. Hitverb

   to guess; to light upon or discover

7. Hitverb

   to take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point

8. Hitverb

   to meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on

9. Hitverb

   to meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck

10. Hitnoun

    a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything

11. Hitnoun

    a stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit

12. Hitnoun

    a peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit

13. Hitnoun

    a game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon

14. Hitnoun

    a striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit

15. Etymology: [OE. hitten, hutten, of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. hitte to hit, find, Sw. & Icel. hitta.]

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1. Hit

   In baseball statistics, a hit, also called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches first base after hitting the ball into fair territory, without the benefit of an error or a fielder's choice.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hit

   hit, v.t. to touch or strike: to reach: to suit: fit: conform to.—v.i. to come in contact: to chance luckily: to succeed:—pr.p. hit′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. hit.—n. a lucky chance, a surprising success: a stroke: a happy turn of thought or expression: at backgammon, a move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point, a game won after one or two men are removed from the board.—n. Hit′ter.—adj. Hit′ty-miss′y, random, hap-hazard.—Hit below the belt, to deal a blow disallowable in the rules of the ring: to do an injury to another unfairly; Hit it off(with), to agree with some one; Hit off, to imitate, to describe; Hit-or-miss, reckless, hap-hazard; Hit out, to strike out with the fist; Hit the nail on the head (see Nail); Hit upon, to come upon, discover.—Hard hit, one gravely affected by some trouble, or by love. [A.S. hyttan, app. Ice. hitta, to light on, to find; Sw. hitta, to find, Dan. hitte, to hit upon.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HIT

   A chance for first place, first base or first blood.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hit

   To reach with a stroke or blow; especially, to reach or touch an object aimed at, as a mark; to strike or touch, usually with force. Also a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke or blow that touches anything.

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1. HIT

   What does HIT stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the HIT acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Affect
   • Approach
   • Arrive
   • Attack
   • Baseball
   • Come By
   • Contact
   • Dose
   • Feat
   • Move
   • Murder
   • Physics
   • Propel
   • Succeed
   • Success
   • Touch

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Hit' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1202

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Hit' in Written Corpus Frequency: #976

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Hit' in Nouns Frequency: #2100

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Hit' in Verbs Frequency: #216

How to pronounce Hit?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Hit in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Hit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Hit in a Sentence

1. Craig Johnson:

   Tiffany is the first poster child of this issue, a lot of retailers might be hit to some degree.

2. Anonymous:

   Hit any user to continue.

3. Peter Dixon:

   That's going to make life very much more difficult for Swiss companies. The export-oriented manufacturers are going to take the biggest hit and cyclical stocks like ABB will be in the firing line.

4. Donald Trump:

   A lot of weird things are happening. This is a strange election, isn't it? Man! you stab somebody and the newspapers say you didn't do it. And you say, 'Yes, I did. I did it.' 'No, you didn't.' 'Yes, I did! I stabbed him and it hit the belt!'.

5. Jason Redman:

   Myself and other teammates were all shot up. I was hit eight times between the body and body armor. I took a round directly to the face and was pinned down, we called rounds directly on our position and miraculously survived. And fast forward about 96 hours from that moment. I found myself in a hospital bed in Bethesda.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Hit
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=Hit
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Hit
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Hit
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Hit
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Hit
9. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=Hit
10. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html