Strike word meaning and definition

[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"
[noun] a pitch that is in the strike zone and that the batter does not hit; "this pitcher throws more strikes than balls"
[noun] a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball; "he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame"
[noun] an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective; "the strike was scheduled to begin at dawn"
[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"
[noun] a gentle blow
[verb] cause to form between electrodes of an arc lamp; "strike an arc"
[verb] arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing; "strike a balance"; "strike a bargain"
[verb] indicate (a certain time) by striking; "The clock struck midnight"; "Just when I entered, the clock struck"
[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"
[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"
[verb] 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"
[verb] pierce with force; "The bullet struck her thigh"; "The icy wind struck through our coats"
[verb] hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"
[verb] smooth with a strickle; "strickle the grain in the measure"
[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"
[verb] remove by erasing or crossing out; "Please strike this remark from the record"
[verb] form by stamping, punching, or printing; "strike coins"; "strike a medal"
[verb] produce by ignition or a blow; "strike fire from the flintstone"; "strike a match"
[verb] have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"

\Strike\, n. 1. A sudden finding of rich ore in mining; hence, any sudden success or good fortune, esp. financial. 2. (Bowling, U. S.) Act of leveling all the pins with the first bowl; also, the score thus made. Sometimes called {double spare}. 3. (Baseball) Any actual or constructive striking at the pitched ball, three of which, if the ball is not hit fairly, cause the batter to be put out; hence, any of various acts or events which are ruled as equivalent to such a striking, as failing to strike at a ball so pitched that the batter should have struck at it. 4. (Tenpins) Same as {Ten-strike}.
\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.] [OE. striken to strike, proceed, flow, AS. str[=i]can to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. str[=i]hhan, 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. f[oe]dus 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) 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.

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