Noun | 1. | hit - (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit" |
2. | hit - the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" | |
3. | hit - 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" | |
4. | hit - (physics) an 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" Synonyms: collision | |
5. | hit - a dose of a narcotic drug | |
6. | hit - a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit" | |
7. | hit - a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide" | |
Verb | 1. | hit - cause to move by striking; "hit a ball" |
2. | hit - hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow" Antonyms: miss - fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target" | |
3. | hit - 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" Synonyms: strike | |
4. | hit - deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face" | |
5. | hit - 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" | |
6. | hit - 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" | |
7. | hit - hit with a missile from a weapon | |
8. | hit - 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" | |
9. | hit - 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" Synonyms: strike | |
10. | hit - hit the intended target or goal | |
11. | hit - 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" Synonyms: strike | |
12. | hit - encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" Synonyms: stumble | |
13. | hit - gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" | |
14. | hit - consume to excess; "hit the bottle" | |
15. | hit - kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" | |
16. | hit - drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling" Synonyms: strike | |
17. | hit - pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars" |
1. | (architecture) | hit - cache hit. | |
2. | (World-Wide Web) | hit - 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. | (jargon) | hit - To press and release a key on the keyboard. Some prefer the less aggressive "tap". |