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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
hit
    n 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" [syn: 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" [syn: 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" [syn:
       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"
    v 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" [syn: hit,
       strike, impinge on, run into, collide with] [ant:
       miss]
    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" [syn: 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"
       [syn: hit, strike]
    6: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit, pip]
    7: encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin
       last night in a restaurant" [syn: 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" [syn:
       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" [syn: 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" [syn: strike, hit]
    11: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss
        ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: 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"
        [syn: 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" [syn: reach, hit, attain]
    14: 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" [syn: strike, hit]
    15: consume to excess; "hit the bottle"
    16: hit the intended target or goal
    17: pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to;
        "He tries to hit on women in bars"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hit \Hit\, pron.
   It. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hit \Hit\,
   3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.
   [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hit \Hit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hit; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Hitting.] [OE. hitten, hutten, of Scand. origin; cf. Dan.
   hitte to hit, find, Sw. & Icel. hitta.]
   1. To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch,
      usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an
      object aimed at).
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            I think you have hit the mark.        --Shak.
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   2. 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.
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            Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the
            notes right.                          --Locke.
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            There you hit him; . . . that argument never fails
            with him.                             --Dryden.
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            Whose saintly visage is too bright
            To hit the sense of human sight.      --Milton.
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            He scarcely hit my humor.             --Tennyson.
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   3. To guess; to light upon or discover. "Thou hast hit it."
      --Shak.
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   4. (Backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging
      to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected
      piece on a point.
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   To hit off, to describe with quick characteristic strokes;
      as, to hit off a speaker. --Sir W. Temple.

   To hit out, to perform by good luck. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hit \Hit\, v. i.
   1. To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; --
      followed by against or on.
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            If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and
            hit one against another?              --Locke.
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            Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies,
            become conjoined with them.           --Woodward.
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   2. To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed,
      -- often with implied chance, or luck.
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            And oft it hits
            Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. --Shak.
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            And millions miss for one that hits.  --Swift.
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   To hit on or To hit upon, to light upon; to come to by
      chance; to discover unexpectedly; as, he hit on the
      solution after days of trying. "None of them hit upon the
      art." --Addison.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hit \Hit.\ adj.
   Having become very popular or acclaimed; -- said of
   entertainment performances; as, a hit song, a hit movie.
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7. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hit \Hit\, n.
   1. A striking against; the collision of one body against
      another; the stroke that touches anything.
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            So he the famed Cilician fencer praised,
            And, at each hit, with wonder seems amazed.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate
      chance; as, he made a hit; esp. A performance, as a
      musical recording, movie, or play, which achieved great
      popularity or acclaim; also used of books or objects of
      commerce which become big sellers; as, the new notebook
      computer was a big hit with business travellers.
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            What late he called a blessing, now was wit,
            And God's good providence, a lucky hit. --Pope.

   3. A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase
      which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
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   4. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed
      some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
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   5. (Baseball) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul
      hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.
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   6. An act of murder performed for hire, esp. by a
      professional assassin.
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   Base hit, Safe hit, Sacrifice hit. (Baseball) See under
      Base, Safe, etc.

8. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
hit
tap

   1.  cache hit.

   2.  A request to a web server from a web
   browser or other client (e.g. a robot).

   The number of hits on a server may be important for
   determining advertising revenue.

   In the course of loading a single web page, a browser may
   hit a web server many times e.g. to retrieve the page itself
   and each image on the page.  In contrast, caching by
   browsers and web proxies reduces the number of hits on the
   server because some requests are satisfied from the cache.

   3.  To press and release a key on the keyboard.  Some
   prefer the less aggressive "tap".

   (2000-02-20)


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