What's the difference between donk and hit?

Donk


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe there's a banging donk as it kicks in, or a dubstep drop before the fade-out.
  • (2) "We are doing this because we have had complaints from Dutch neurologists about the way the doctors are treating the patients," said Karen Donk of the inspectorate.
  • (3) "Howard Kendall Mint Cake, Ian Walkers, Pepsi Reina, Paul Robinson's," chants Andrew Kearney, a cut-price marketing-obsessed version of Le Donk.
  • (4) Mathijsen leaps to meet it but donks his header high and wide.
  • (5) 8.29pm BST 44 min: Mulgrew curls a ball around for Stoke, who had made a good run ... but can't find a finish to match, donking it high and wide from 15 yards.

Hit


Definition:

  • (pron.) It.
  • () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hit
  • (v. t.) To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To guess; to light upon or discover.
  • (v. t.) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
  • (v. i.) To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.
  • (v. i.) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck.
  • (n.) A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
  • (n.) A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit.
  • (n.) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
  • (n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
  • (n.) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
  • (2) Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year.
  • (3) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
  • (4) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
  • (5) Hanley Ramirez was hitting behind Michael Young and now he's injured.
  • (6) Botswana, Kenya, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have also been badly hit.
  • (7) We are better off in.” Out campaigners have claimed that the NHS could be badly hit by a decision to stay in the EU.
  • (8) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
  • (9) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
  • (10) Macron hit back on Twitter, saying her proposals to take France out of the EU would destroy France’s fishing industry.
  • (11) VAT increases don't just hit the poor more than the rich, they also hit small firms, threaten retail jobs and, by boosting inflation, could also lead to higher interest rates."
  • (12) And Norris Cole hits a "good night everybody" three-pointer.
  • (13) If you’ve escaped the impact of cuts so far , consider yourself lucky, but don’t think that you won’t be affected after the next tranche hits.
  • (14) Government borrowing has hit a record high for a September.
  • (15) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
  • (16) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
  • (17) On the first anniversary of Peach's death I took part in my first ever demonstration where we chanted the names of the six SPG officers who were said to have been hitting people with batons on the street where Peach died.
  • (18) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
  • (19) Two short homologous sequences in the rat insulin I enhancer fragment used, IEB2 and IEB1, have been described as playing a dominant role in the regulation of HIT hamster insulinoma cell-specific transcription of the insulin gene (1).
  • (20) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.

Words possibly related to "hit"