hit
Meanings
- To strike.
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To strike against something.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To switch on or switch off (lights).
- To commence playing.
- To briefly visit.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- 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.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- Very successful.
- It.
- Acronym of high-intensity interval training.
- Acronym of high-intensity training.
- Initialism of health information technology.
- Initialism of hyperspectral imaging technique.
- Acronym of human intelligence task
- Abbreviation of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
- Abbreviation of herd immunity threshold.
- A city in Iraq.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂id-néh₂-ti Proto-Germanic *hittijaną Old Norse hittader. Old English hyttan Middle English hitten English hit Inherited from Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian hitte (“to meet”), Dutch hitten (“to hit, encounter”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Faroese, Icelandic, Swedish hitta (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk hitta, hitte (“to meet; to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”). Probably also related to Dutch hei (“mallet”), German Heie (“wooden hammer, mallet”).