() 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.
Punto
Definition:
(n.) A point or hit.
Example Sentences:
(1) 11.10pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 7th Siegrist throws a wild pitch at 1-2 that allows Punto to advance to second base.
(2) 11.02pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 7th Nick Punto, the Shredder, hits a liner to centerfield and does Don Mattingly keep his starting pitcher in or pinch-hit?
(3) They try one more time and... Punto chases one and misses.
(4) 9.45pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, top of the 3rd Nick Punto leads off the third, with Hanley Ramirez reportedly away from the ballpark and getting x-rays and really this just sounds worse and worse for Los Angeles the more they talk about it.
(5) He turned up at Kettering in his Fiat Punto, played out of position on the right of midfield and worked tirelessly.
(6) 11.17pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 1, bottom of the 7th Molina grounds out to Punto, who has maybe been the Dodgers' best position player of the game.
(7) 9.28pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 1st Yadier Molina hits a ball that seems likely to sneak into the outfield but Nick Punto, in the game only because Hanley Ramirez is hurt, gobbles it up to make the third out of the inning and keep the Cardinals off the board.
(8) Even the strikeout of little Nick Punto can't illicit any joy, for some reason.
(9) 9.31pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 1st So, Yadier Molina gets stopped by Nick Punto.
(10) He faces old teammate James Loney, although I'm not sure if either of them remember his time as the post-Nick Punto Trade starting first baseman last season.
(11) By the trading deadline, the 2012 Red Sox were so clearly out of the postseason mix that they agreed to a payroll-clearing trade that sent Gonzalez, Crawford and Beckett (and Nick Punto of course), who were supposed to represent the future of the Boston Red Sox, to the suddenly cash-flush Los Angeles Dodgers .
(12) Nick Punto works a full count off of Michael Wacha before he strikes out on a high fastball, because he is Nick Punto, 9.43pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 2nd Jon Jay is up next for the the Cardinals, Kershaw gets him to ground out to Mark Ellis and that's six gone after that lead-off triple.
(13) 3.23am BST Hanley Ramirez He is done - Nick Punto is in.
(14) Inside his flat and his Fiat Punto car detectives found compelling evidence; small bottles of champagne, clear plastic gloves, a torch, sex toys, condoms, sleeping tablets and a heavy ashtray in which he crushed the powerful drugs to incapacitate his victims.
(15) Instead, the Dodgers' best hitter will be replaced in the lineup with Nick Punto.
(16) Seeing the Argentinian pope riding in a Fiat Punto, one of the least expensive of cars – his own choice – around the streets of Rio de Janeiro filled me with the deepest tenderness.
(17) Updated at 5.02am BST 3.13am BST Nick Punto grabs a glove... ...then he disappears from the dugout, which means he is warming up under the stands.
(18) Can the Detroit Tigers actually win a playoff series with Miguel Cabrera hitting like Nick Punto?
(19) 3.55am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th It will be Beltran, Holliday and Molina for St Louis as they look to get back in this ballgame - little Nick Punto is off the bench to replace the less than 100% Ramirez at shortstop to shore up the defense - he'll bat ninth as the pitchers spot moves to second in the order on the double switch.
(20) The Cardinals decide no because it's Nick freaking Punto.