What does hitting mean?

Definitions for hitting
hit·ting

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. 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"

Wiktionary

  1. hittingnoun

    A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object.

  2. hittingnoun

    The skill of hitting.

ChatGPT

  1. hitting

    Hitting refers to the act of coming into violent contact with something; to strike forcefully or deliberately. It can also refer to achieving or reaching a particular level, point or target. This action can relate to various contexts like sports, success achievements, or physical assault.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Hitting

    of Hit

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  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'hitting' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4537

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hitting in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hitting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of hitting in a Sentence

  1. Mitt Romney:

    While hitting familiar Republican points criticizing the size of the federal debt, Romney at times sounded like a Democrat, calling for President Barack Obama and other leaders in Washington to act on common liberal priorities such as climate change, poverty and education. ‘I'm one of those Republicans who thinks we are getting warmer and that we contribute to that.

  2. Louis Oosthuizen:

    Yesterday afternoon there was a lot of smoke and little bit of wind but today it was clear and it's not windy so a lot of opportunities, i've been hitting it good and happy where I am.

  3. Matt Smith:

    After hitting that $80 level, which is a psychological level, we were seeing a little bit of a pull-back yesterday, and then rhetoric out of Saudi and Russia has only exacerbated the sell-off today.

  4. Dana Kaldor:

    It's when it starts hitting your pocketbook that it come become a problem.

  5. William Carolan:

    These gangs will have to go and try and access those guns again and we will keep hitting them at every opportunity to keep removing firearms off the streets.

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