HIT

hit

(noun) (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); “he came all the way around on Williams’ hit”

hit, smash, smasher, strike, bang

(noun) 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”

hit, hitting, striking

(noun) the act of contacting one thing with another; “repeated hitting raised a large bruise”; “after three misses she finally got a hit”

hit

(noun) a connection made via the internet to another website; “WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide”

hit

(noun) a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; “it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit”

hit

(noun) a dose of a narcotic drug

collision, hit

(noun) (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”

score, hit, tally, rack up

(verb) gain points in a game; “The home team scored many times”; “He hit a home run”; “He hit .300 in the past season”

strike, hit

(verb) 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”

shoot, hit, pip

(verb) hit with a missile from a weapon

hit

(verb) hit the intended target or goal

hit, strike

(verb) 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”

strike, hit

(verb) produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments; “The pianist strikes a middle C”; “strike ‘z’ on the keyboard”

hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with

(verb) hit against; come into sudden contact with; “The car hit a tree”; “He struck the table with his elbow”

hit

(verb) deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; “He hit her hard in the face”

hit

(verb) cause to move by striking; “hit a ball”

reach, hit, attain

(verb) 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”

reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain

(verb) 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”

hit, strike

(verb) drive something violently into a location; “he hit his fist on the table”; “she struck her head on the low ceiling”

hit, strike, come to

(verb) 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”

murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove

(verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation; “The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

HIT (plural HITs)

Acronym of high-intensity interval training (“high-intensity interval training”).

Acronym of high-intensity training (“high-intensity training”).

Abbreviation of hyperspectral imaging technique. or Abbreviation of hyper-spectral imaging technique.

Acronym of human intelligence task.

Anagrams

• iht, ith

Etymology 1

Verb

hit (third-person singular simple present hits, present participle hitting, simple past (dialectal, obsolete) hat or (rare, dialectal) het or hit, past participle (archaic, rare, dialectal) hitten or hit)

(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.

(transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.

Antonym: miss

(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.

(metaphorically) To attack.

(heading, games) To make a play.

(transitive, cards) 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.

Synonyms

• (administer a blow): beat, pelt, thump; see also hit

• (kill a person): bump off, do away with, whack; see also kill

• (attack): beset, fall upon, lay into; see also attack

• (have sex with): bang, ram, smash; see also copulate with

• (smoke marijuana): smoke up, toke

Antonyms

• (manage to touch in the right place): miss

Noun

hit (plural hits)

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.

Antonyms

• (a punch): miss

• (success): flop, turkey

Adjective

hit (not comparable)

Very successful.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hit (subjective and objective hit, reflexive and intensive hitself, possessive adjective and noun hits)

(dialectal) It.

Anagrams

• iht, ith

Source: Wiktionary

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Hit, pron.

Definition: It. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hit,

Definition: 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hit; p. pr. & vb. n. Hitting.] Etym: [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. "Thou hast hit it." Shak.

4. (Backgammon)

Definition: 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.

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. "None of them hit upon the art." Addison.

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.

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

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

5. (Baseball)

Definition: A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit. Base hit, Safe hit, Sacrifice hit. (Baseball) See under Base, Safe, etc.

Hit adj.

Definition: having become very popular or acclaimed; -- said of entertainment performances; as, a hit record, a hit movie.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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