hit

1. (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"

2. the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"

synset: hit, hitting, striking

3. 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"

synset: hit, smash, smasher, strike, bang

4. (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"

synset: collision, hit

5. a dose of a narcotic drug

6. a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"

7. a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"

1. cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"

2. hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"

synset: hit, strike, impinge_on, run_into, collide_with

3. deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"

4. 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"

synset: reach, make, attain, hit, arrive_at, gain

5. 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"

synset: hit, strike

6. hit with a missile from a weapon

synset: shoot, hit, pip

7. encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"

synset: stumble, hit

8. gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"

synset: score, hit, tally, rack_up

9. 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"

synset: hit, strike, come_to

10. 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"

synset: strike, hit

11. kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"

synset: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump_off, off, polish_off, remove

12. drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"

synset: hit, strike

13. 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"

synset: reach, hit, attain

14. produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments; "The pianist strikes a middle C"; "strike `z' on the keyboard"

synset: strike, hit

15. hit the intended target or goal

16. pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars"

Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

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