STRIKE

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”

strike

(noun) (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter’s knees and shoulders; “this pitcher throws more strikes than balls”

strike, ten-strike

(noun) a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball; “he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame”

strike

(noun) an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective; “the strike was scheduled to begin at dawn”

strike, work stoppage

(noun) a group’s refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions; “the strike lasted more than a month before it was settled”

rap, strike, tap

(noun) a gentle blow

strike

(verb) cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp; “strike an arc”

strike

(verb) arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing; “strike a balance”; “strike a bargain”

strike

(verb) indicate (a certain time) by striking; “The clock struck midnight”; “Just when I entered, the clock struck”

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”

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”

strike

(verb) pierce with force; “The bullet struck her thigh”; “The icy wind struck through our coats”

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”

strickle, strike

(verb) smooth with a strickle; “strickle the grain in the measure”

strike

(verb) deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon; “The teacher struck the child”; “the opponent refused to strike”; “The boxer struck the attacker dead”

strike, scratch, expunge, excise

(verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; “Please strike this remark from the record”; “scratch that remark”

mint, coin, strike

(verb) form by stamping, punching, or printing; “strike coins”; “strike a medal”

strike

(verb) disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set; “after the show, we’ll have to strike the set and pack up”

strike

(verb) produce by ignition or a blow; “strike fire from the flintstone”; “strike a match”

affect, impress, move, strike

(verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; “This child impressed me as unusually mature”; “This behavior struck me as odd”; “he was dumb-struck by the news”; “her comments struck a sour note”

assume, take, strike, take up

(verb) occupy or take on; “He assumes the lotus position”; “She took her seat on the stage”; “We took our seats in the orchestra”; “She took up her position behind the tree”; “strike a pose”

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”

strike, walk out

(verb) stop work in order to press demands; “The auto workers are striking for higher wages”; “The employees walked out when their demand for better benefits was not met”

fall, shine, strike

(verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; “Light fell on her face”; “The sun shone on the fields”; “The light struck the golden necklace”; “A strange sound struck my ears”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Proper noun

Strike (plural Strikes)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Strike is the 32935^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 696 individuals. Strike is most common among White (93.68%) individuals.

Anagrams

• kiters, trikes

Etymology

Verb

strike (third-person singular simple present strikes, present participle striking, simple past struck, past participle struck or stricken)

(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.

(transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.

(intransitive) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.

Synonym: strike work

(transitive) To impress, seem or appear (to).

(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.

To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; 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.

To make and ratify.

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).

Usage notes

• Custom influences which participle is used in set phrases and specific contexts, but in general, the past participle "struck" is more common when speaking of intransitive actions (e.g. He'd struck it rich, or He's struck out on his own, etc.), whereas "stricken" is more commonly used for transitive actions, especially constructions where the subject is the object of an implied action (e.g. The Court has stricken the statement from the record, or The city was stricken with disease, etc.)

Noun

strike (plural strikes)

(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.

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; hence, excellence of 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.

Antonyms

• (work stoppage): industrial peace; lockout

Anagrams

• kiters, trikes

Source: Wiktionary

Strike, v. t. [imp. Struck; p. p. Struck, Stricken ( (Stroock (, Strucken (, Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly used in the p.p. than stricken.] Etym: [OE. striken to strike, proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off (but perhaps not to L. stringere in sense to draw tight), striga a row, a furrow. Cf. Streak, Stroke.]

1. To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile. He at Philippi kept His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius. Shak.

2. To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.

3. To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast. They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts. Ex. xii. 7. Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow. Byron.

4. To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.

5. To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.

6. To punish; to afflict; to smite. To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity. Prov. xvii. 26.

7. To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.

8. To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.

9. To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror. Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the first view. Atterbury. They please as beauties, here as wonders strike. Pope.

10. To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind. How often has stricken you dumb with his irony! Landor.

11. To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light. Waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. Milton.

12. To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.

13. To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.

Note: Probably borrowed from the L. foedus ferrire, to strike a compact, so called because an animal was struck and killed as a sacrifice on such occasions.

14. To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money. [Old Slang]

15. To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.

16. (Masonry)

Definition: To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.

17. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.

18. To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars. [Slang]

19. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor. B. Edwards.

20. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave. Behold, I thought, He will . . . strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 2 Kings v. 11.

21. To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle. "Well struck in years." Shak. To strike an attitude, To strike a balance. See under Attitude, and Balance.

– To strike a jury (Law), to constitute a special jury ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain number of names from a prepared list of jurors, so as to reduce it to the number of persons required by law. Burrill.

– To strike a lead. (a) (Mining) To find a vein of ore. (b) Fig.: To find a way to fortune. [Colloq.] -- To strike a ledger, or an account, to balance it.

– To strike hands with. (a) To shake hands with. Halliwell. (b) To make a compact or agreement with; to agree with.

– To strike off. (a) To erase from an account; to deduct; as, to strike off the interest of a debt. (b) (Print.) To impress; to print; as, to strike off a thousand copies of a book. (c) To separate by a blow or any sudden action; as, to strike off what is superfluous or corrupt.

– To strike oil, to find petroleum when boring for it; figuratively, to make a lucky hit financially. [Slang, U.S.] -- To strike one luck, to shake hands with one and wish good luck. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

– To strike out. (a) To produce by collision; to force out, as, to strike out sparks with steel. (b) To blot out; to efface; to erase. "To methodize is as necessary as to strike out." Pope. (c) To form by a quick effort; to devise; to invent; to contrive, as, to strike out a new plan of finance. (d) (Baseball) To cause a player to strike out; -- said of the pitcher. See To strike out, under Strike, v. i.

– To strike sail. See under Sail.

– To strike up. (a) To cause to sound; to begin to beat. "Strike up the drums." Shak. (b) To begin to sing or play; as, to strike up a tune. (c) To raise (as sheet metal), in making diahes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die.

– To strike work, to quit work; to go on a strike.

Strike, v. i.

Definition: To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields. A mouse . . . struck forth sternly [bodily]. Piers Plowman.

2. To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows. And fiercely took his trenchant blade in hand, With which he stroke so furious and so fell. Spenser. Strike now, or else the iron cools. Shak.

3. To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.

4. To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes. A deep sound strikes like a rising knell. Byron.

5. To make an attack; to aim a blow. A puny subject strikes At thy great glory. Shak. Struck for throne, and striking found his doom. Tennyson.

6. To touch; to act by appulse. Hinder light but from striking on it [porphyry], and its colors vanish. Locke.

7. To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.

8. To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate. Till a dart strike through his liver. Prov. vii. 23. Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem. Dryden.

9. To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run.

10. To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy. That the English ships of war should not strike in the Danish seas. Bp. Burnet.

11. To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.

12. To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.

13. To steal money. [Old Slang, Eng.] Nares. To strike at, to aim a blow at.

– To strike for, to start suddenly on a course for.

– To strike home, to give a blow which reaches its object, to strike with effect.

– To strike in. (a) To enter suddenly. (b) To disappear from the surface, with internal effects, as an eruptive disease. (c) To come in suddenly; to interpose; to interrupt. "I proposed the embassy of Constantinople for Mr. Henshaw, but my Lord Winchelsea struck in." Evelyn. (d) To join in after another has begun,as in singing.

– To strike in with, to conform to; to suit itself to; to side with, to join with at once. "To assert this is to strike in with the known enemies of God's grace." South. To strike out. (a) To start; to wander; to make a sudden excursion; as, to strike out into an irregular course of life. (b) To strike with full force. (c) (Baseball) To be put out for not hitting the ball during one's turn at the bat.

– To strike up, to commence to play as a musician; to begin to sound, as an instrument. "Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up." Shak.

Strike, n.

1. The act of striking.

2. An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.

3. A bushel; four pecks. [Prov. Eng.] Tusser.

4. An old measure of four bushels. [Prov. Eng.]

5. Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality. Three hogsheads of ale of the first strike. Sir W. Scott.

6. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence. [Obs.]

7. The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer. Strikes are the insurrections of labor. F. A. Walker.

8. (Iron Working)

Definition: A puddler's stirrer.

9. (Geol.)

Definition: The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip.

10. The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing. Strike block (Carp.), a plane shorter than a jointer, used for fitting a short joint. Moxon.

– Strike of flax, a handful that may be hackled at once. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.

– Strike of sugar. (Sugar Making) (a) The act of emptying the teache, or last boiler, in which the cane juice is exposed to heat, into the coolers. (b) The quantity of the sirup thus emptied at once.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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