hit
see also: HIT, Hit
Pronunciation
HIT
Noun
Hit
Etymology
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see also: HIT, Hit
Pronunciation
- IPA: /hɪt/
From Middle English hitten, from Old English hittan, from Old Norse hitta, from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-.
Cognate with Icelandic hitta, Danish hitte, Latin caedō, Albanian qit.
Verbhit (hits, present participle hitting; simple past and past participle hit)
- (heading, physical) To strike.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- One boy hit the other.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC ↗:
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 15]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC ↗:
- Bello: (Shouts) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That's the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you! (He slaps her face)
Bello: (Whimpers) You're after hitting me. I'll tell […]
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- The ball hit the fence.
- 1726 October 27, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver's Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC ↗, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag):
- a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- a. 1705, John Locke, “An Examination of P[ère] Malebranche’s Opinion of Seeing All Things in God”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC ↗:
- If bodies be extension alone, […] how can they move and hit one against another?
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- Hit the Enter key to continue.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
- 1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)
- FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- Their coffee really hits the spot.
- I used to listen to that song all the time, but it hits different(ly) now.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- I hit the jackpot.
- Antonyms: miss
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on.
- Antonyms: cut, kill
- Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!
- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- I'd love to hear your band play.
Hit it boys!
- I'd love to hear your band play.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.
- We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.
- (heading) To attain, to achieve.
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- The movie hits theaters in December.
- The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.
- We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All's Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene i]:
- And oft it hits / Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene i]:
- Thou hast hit it.
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- The economy was hit by a recession. The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.
- (metaphorically) To attack.
- (heading, games) To make a play.
- (transitive, cards) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- Hit me.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- Jones hit for the pitcher.
- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive, cards) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- I'd hit that!
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- This is another great exercise which hits the long head.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) to work out
- With that said, the group hitting their legs just once a week still made gains.
- (administer a blow) beat, pelt, thump; see also Thesaurus:hit
- (kill a person) bump off, do away with, whack; see also Thesaurus:kill
- (attack) beset, fall upon, lay into; see also Thesaurus:attack
- (have sex with) bang, ram, smash; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- (smoke marijuana) smoke up, toke
- (work out) hit the gym
- (antonym(s) of “manage to touch in the right place”): miss
- French: frapper, battre
- German: schlagen, treffen, stoßen
- Italian: colpire, picchiare, battere
- Portuguese: golpear, bater
- Russian: ударя́ть
- Spanish: golpear, pegar, batir, dar
- French: cogner
- German: schlagen, (colloquial) knallen
- Portuguese: bater, chocar-se, colidir
- Russian: ударя́ться
- Spanish: dar, chocar
- Russian: напада́ть
- German: treffen
- French: taper
- German: abschlagen
- French: frapper
hit (plural hits)
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fourth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC ↗:
- So he the fam'd Cilician fencer prais'd, / And, at each hit, with wonder seem'd amaz'd.
- The hit was very slight.
Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim. - (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- His reputation took a hit when the new information came to light.
- 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.
- My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
- 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.
- The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- Where am I going to get my next hit?
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
- a happy hit
- 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC ↗:
- What late he called a blessing, now was wit, / And God's good providence, a lucky hit.
- (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.
- French: coup
- German: Schlag, Hieb, Stoß, Treffer
- Portuguese: golpe, batida
- Russian: уда́р
- Spanish: golpe
- French: hit, tube, schlager (somewhat dated)
- German: Hit, Erfolg, Schlager
- Portuguese: hit, sucesso
- Russian: хит
- Spanish: éxito, hit
- French: portée efficace, bonne cible
- German: Treffer
- Russian: попада́ние
- Spanish: acierto
- French: hit, résultat
- German: Treffer, Hit
- Italian: risultato
- Portuguese: acerto, resultado
- Spanish: acierto, resultado
- French: hit
- Portuguese: acerto
- French: contrat, assassinat commandité m
- German: no equivalent term in German, but see Mord (murder), Ermordung (murder), Auftragsmord (contract kill)
- Portuguese: assassínio (Portugal), assassinato (Brazil)
- Russian: покуше́ние
hit (not comparable)
- Very successful.
- The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
From Middle English hit, from Old English hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- ("this, here").
Pronoun- (dialectal) it.
- 1998, Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:
- Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit slide down the hill hits own way.
HIT
Noun
hit (plural hits)
- Acronym of high-intensity interval training
- Acronym of high-intensity training
- Abbreviation of hyperspectral imaging technique or Abbreviation of hyper-spectral imaging technique
- Acronym of human intelligence task
- Abbreviation of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
- Abbreviation of herd immunity threshold
Hit
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish هيت and Arabic هيت.
Proper noun- A city in Iraq
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