() 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.
Thwack
Definition:
(v. t.) To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump.
(v. t.) To fill to overflow.
(n.) A heavy blow with something flat or heavy; a thump.
Example Sentences:
(1) He thwacks his machete into a stump to free his hands and reaches over a stone wall, groping for something in the vegetation beneath.
(2) Mancienne strode into midfield and knocked t he ball to Milner, who took it forward and thwacked a fine effort inches over the bar.
(3) The air reverberates with the thwacking sound of a pile driver.
(4) For discontented voters, especially those who feel that globalisation has done nothing for them and those unpersuaded that Brexit would inflict a material cost on their families, the referendum could be a stick with which to give a satisfying thwack to the backsides of the “political elite”.
(5) One woman fights hard, still screaming, occasionally breaking free, running a few paces, only to be brought down again with a brutal thwack.
(6) Granted, there was a considerable amount of luck attached to what happened next when Antonio Valencia’s off-target shot skimmed off Gibbs, still on the floor, to find the net but the thwack between goalkeeper and left-back was just another indication of the chaos that frequently undermines Arsenal’s defence.
(7) The sound of suffering humanity, the scream of a million English roses flailed against the landscape of depression – or a few dozen gladioli thwacked against Morrissey's handsome thigh.
(8) The momentum kept building with every tackle from the steel in midfield, in the shape of Karl Henry and the returning Sandro, with every heartfelt run from Bobby Zamora, every thwacked shot unleashed by Charlie Austin.
(9) • Take a wooden spoon and thwack each half over a bowl until all the seeds have come out.
(10) What most people crave is not the firm thwack of May’s leadership, but a certainty about the future that currently seems beyond their reach.
(11) A merican biologist Kelly Swing thwacks a bush with his butterfly net and a dozen or so bugs and insects drop in.
(12) Even the cliches – which are plentiful – are accompanied by the suspicion that there's something going on beneath the clunkiness, something Profound and Awful that will rear up from the depths and thwack us in the preconceptions.
(13) 2.08pm BST 34th over: Sri Lanka 100-2 (Jayawardene 17, Sangakkara 27) To the soundtrack of groups of children attempting (unsuccessfully) to start Mexican waves (Five, four, three, two, one, WAAAAAHEYYY … [silence] … Five, four, three, two, one, WAAAAAHEYYY … [silence] … Five") it's Plunkett's turn to get thwacked to the boundary – a wide one gets the full treatment from Sangakkara.
(14) 3.33pm BST 33 mins: Quite so... Gary Naylor (@garynaylor999) @NickMiller79 If you're being torn apart by Shola Ameobi, it's a pretty good indication of what needs to be at the top of your shopping list May 11, 2014 3.32pm BST 32 mins: Suarez has a free kick from about 25 yards out, but he thwacks it straight into the wall.
(15) 10.03am GMT 75min: Duarte is thwacked by Duarte and wins a free-kick in the left-hand side of the area.
(16) Golfers thwack balls towards the huge nets of Chelsea Piers.
(17) Now, as I thwack on the TV to buy myself half an hour, or distract the kid while I cut her toenails, I can’t help feeling a sort of internal tug, as though some vital societal fabric is being unravelled because there are images moving across a screen in the living room before lunch.
(18) It's like a real-life cartoon, with all the sound effects – thump, thwack, bang, crash, eek, splat – as they roll, bite each other and tumble slowly off their bamboo platform on to the grass.
(19) While the opposition leader was thwacking on the lycra before sunup, the prime minister had instead fallen into the habit of “comfort eating”.