hit : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hit	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for hit
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hit n (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit" the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" Synonym(s): hit, hitting, striking 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" Synonym(s): hit, smash, smasher, strike, bang (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" Synonym(s): collision, hit a dose of a narcotic drug a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit" a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide" v cause to move by striking; "hit a ball" hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow" Synonym(s): hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with Antonym(s): miss deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face" 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" Synonym(s): reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain 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" Synonym(s): hit, strike hit with a missile from a weapon Synonym(s): shoot, hit, pip encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" Synonym(s): stumble, hit gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" Synonym(s): score, hit, tally, rack up 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" Synonym(s): hit, strike, come to 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" Synonym(s): strike, hit kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" Synonym(s): murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling" Synonym(s): hit, strike 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" Synonym(s): reach, hit, attain 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" Synonym(s): strike, hit consume to excess; "hit the bottle" hit the intended target or goal pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hit \Hit\, v. i. 1. To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on. If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another? --Locke. Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them. --Woodward. 2. To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck. And oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. --Shak. And millions miss for one that hits. --Swift. {To hit on} [or] {upon}, to light upon; to come to by chance. [bd]None of them hit upon the art.[b8] --Addison.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hit \Hit\, pron. It. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hit \Hit\, 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Hide}, contracted from hideth. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hit \Hit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hit}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hitting}.] [OE. hitten, hutten, of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. hitte to hit, find, Sw. & Icel. hitta.] 1. To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at). I think you have hit the mark. --Shak. 2. 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. Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right. --Locke. There you hit him; . . . that argument never fails with him. --Dryden. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight. --Milton. He scarcely hit my humor. --Tennyson. 3. To guess; to light upon or discover. [bd]Thou hast hit it.[b8] --Shak. 4. (Backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point. {To hit off}, to describe with quick characteristic strokes; as, to hit off a speaker. --Sir W. Temple. {To hit out}, to perform by good luck. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hit \Hit\, n. 1. A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, And, at each hit, with wonder seems amazed. --Dryden. 2. A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit. What late he called a blessing, now was wit, And God's good providence, a lucky hit. --Pope.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
hit 1. {cache hit}. 2. A request to a {web server} from a {web browser} or other {client} (e.g. a {robot}). The number of hits on a server may be important for determining advertising revenue. In the course of loading a single {web page}, a browser may hit a web server many times e.g. to retrieve the page itself and each {image} on the page. In contrast, caching by browsers and {web proxies} reduces the number of hits on the server because some requests are satisfied from the cache. 3. To press and release a key on the keyboard. Some prefer the less aggressive "tap". (2000-02-20)