Definition of Hit

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Definition of Hit

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3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.

of Hit

To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).

To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.

To guess; to light upon or discover.

To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.

To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck.

A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit.

A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.

A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.

A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.

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Hit Quotations

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill

How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
Yogi Berra

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Theodore Roosevelt

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
Confucius

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.
Steven Wright

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hit Translations

hit in Afrikaans is klap, tref
hit in Dutch is slaan, kloppen, houwen, klappen
hit in Italian is picchiare
hit in Latin is infligo inflixi inflictum, offendo, Ico
hit in Portuguese is bater, batida
hit in Spanish is batido

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