strike
Meanings
verb
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To have a sharp or sudden physical effect, as of a blow.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
noun
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- An attack, not necessarily physical.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth or another solid celestial body.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- Fullness of measure; the whole amount produced at one time.
name
- A surname.
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Etymology
From Middle English stryken, from Old English strīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan, from Proto-Germanic *strīkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”). Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen, Danish stryge, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva.
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