() 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.
Scud
Definition:
(v. i.) To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.
(v. i.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.
(v. t.) To pass over quickly.
(n.) The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.
(n.) Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind.
(n.) A slight, sudden shower.
(n.) A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
(n.) Any swimming amphipod crustacean.
Example Sentences:
(1) It said Damascus had proved itself "incapable of using its weapons systems proportionately or discriminately" and had fired lethal Scud missiles against its own cities, such as Aleppo.
(2) It is thought that he only has the remnants of the weapons programme that was dismantled in 2004, and coalition air strikes have targeted the Scud missiles that could have been used to deliver them.
(3) Batteries of US-made Patriot missiles, designed to shoot down the likes of the Scuds used in the 1991 Gulf war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, are about to be deployed by the US, German and Dutch armies, each of which is sending up to 400 troops to operate and protect the rocket systems.
(4) Experts say the North's Soviet-era Scud missiles could hit South Korea, where the US has bases, but it is unclear whether its longer-range missiles could hit Pacific bases.
(5) Serves 2 garlic cloves 4, peeled bird's eye chillies (scuds) 4-10 salt good pinch vegetable oil 3-4 tbsp eggs 2 coarsely minced beef 200 g fish sauce about 2 tbsp white sugar a large pinch stock or water 4 tbsp holy basil leaves 2 large handfuls chillies in fish sauce (see below) to serve For the chillies in fish sauce fish sauce 4 tbsp bird's eye chillies (scuds) 10-15, finely sliced garlic cloves (optional but desirable) 2, finely sliced lime juice (optional) 1 tbsp chopped coriander good pinch To make the chillies in fish sauce, combine the fish sauce, chillies and garlic in a bowl and set aside.
(6) Anti-Assad fighters have repeatedly complained they cannot protect their communities from attacks by a regime armed with fighter jets, tanks and Scud ballistic missiles.
(7) Opposition-held parts of Aleppo have repeatedly been hit by large ballistic missiles, including scuds, as well as non-conventional high-explosive bombs dropped from helicopters, known as barrel bombs.
(8) The claim by British and US forces that Iraq had fired illegal Scud missiles into Kuwait was reported 27 times on British news programmes.
(9) Sevilla had to come out of their defensive cocoon now and ventured forward in greater numbers but Real remained much the more cohesive, dangerous team and Benzema threatened to widen the margin after 63 minutes when his scudding shot had Beto in more productive action.
(10) The missiles, presumed to be Scud-types, were launched from North Hwanghae province and travelled for up to 600km (370 miles), South Korean news agency Yonhap quoted the military as saying.
(11) During the Persian Gulf War in the winter of 1991, Israel received 18 missile attacks involving 39 surface-to-surface Scud missiles.
(12) Amid the controversy over the EU embargo and whether the US should send arms directly to the rebels, Moscow and Tehran have continued to support the Syrian army, which has precision weapons and artillery as well as armed helicopters, SU-22 strike aircraft and Scud missiles.
(13) Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Nothing could detract from the views beyond the hedge rows, however, with low-scudding clouds shapeshifting the light over pastures running down to sandy coves.
(14) These, it says, include Scud C, Scud B, M500 missiles, bombs and artillery rockets with a range of up to 500km.
(15) But now the sun disappears behind the low cloud of wariness that scuds across his face.
(16) Throughout the 1991 Gulf War a rural Family Medicine practice in central Israel, situated 20 km from the nearest Scud missile attack area, continued to operate normally.
(17) Bob Caldwell Badby, Northamptonshire • As one of the Ulster Unionists referred to by Chris Haskins ( Letters , 20 January), I always put the Met Office’s refusal to report on the Republic’s weather – while showing clouds and other climatic manifestations scudding across the 26 counties – down to British politeness: the Republic doesn’t belong to the UK so we shouldn’t talk about its weather, sort of thing.
(18) However, Stavridis wrote that a handful of Scud missiles were launched inside Syria in recent days towards opposition targets and "several landed fairly close to the Turkish border, which is very worrisome".
(19) During the period 18 January-28 February 1991, a total of 39 Iraqi modified Scud missiles landed in Israel, most of them in the densely populated Tel Aviv area.
(20) When the inspectors left in 1998, they left unaccounted for: 10,000 litres of anthrax; a far reaching VX nerve agent programme; up to 6,500 chemical munitions; at least 80 tonnes of mustard gas, possibly more than ten times that amount; unquantifiable amounts of sarin, botulinum toxin and a host of other biological poisons; an entire Scud missile programme.