(v. t.) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.
(v. t.) To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.
(v. t.) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
(v. t.) To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
(v. t.) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.
(v. t.) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
(v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
(v. t.) To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.
(v. t.) To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.
(v. t.) To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind.
(v. t.) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.
(v. t.) To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.
(v. t.) To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.
(v. t.) To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.
(v. t.) To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.
(v. t.) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
(v. t.) To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.
(v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars.
(v. t.) To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
(v. t.) To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
(v. t.) To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle.
(v. i.) To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields.
(v. i.) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
(v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.
(v. i.) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes.
(v. i.) To make an attack; to aim a blow.
(v. i.) To touch; to act by appulse.
(v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.
(v. i.) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
(v. i.) To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run.
(v. i.) To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.
(v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.
(v. i.) To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.
(v. i.) To steal money.
(n.) The act of striking.
(n.) An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
(n.) A bushel; four pecks.
(n.) An old measure of four bushels.
(n.) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
(n.) An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
(n.) The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer.
(n.) A puddler's stirrer.
(n.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip.
(n.) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
(2) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(3) The amplitudes of the a-wave and the 01 decreased in dose-dependent manners, but their changes were less striking than those of the 01 latency.
(4) A striking feature of BEN is the familial occurrence of the disease.
(5) What is striking is the comprehensive and strategic approach they have.
(6) The most striking feature of some industrialized countries is a dramatic reduction of the prevalence of dental caries among school-aged children.
(7) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
(8) All aircraft exited the strike areas safely.” Earlier, residents living near the Mosul dam told the Associated Press the area was being targeted by air strikes.
(9) It’s not to punish the public, it’s to save the NHS and its people.” Another commenter added: “Of course they should strike.
(10) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
(11) I believe that what we need is a nonviolent national general strike of the kind that has been more common in Europe than here.
(12) Striking and consistent differences were found in the levels of acceptor activity in different tissues from both groups; these levels corresponded to their sensitivity to tumorigenesis by alkylating agents.
(13) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
(14) The results show that in both viral DNAs cleavage occurs at the origin and at one additional site which shows striking sequence homology with the origin region.
(15) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(16) The most striking homology was to yeast SEC7 in the central domain of the gene (57% identical over 466 bp) and also the protein level (42% identical amino acids; 39% conserved amino acids).
(17) Figures from 228 organisations, of which 154 are acute hospital trusts, show that 2,077 inpatient procedures have been cancelled due to the two-day strike alongside 3,187 day case operations and procedures.
(18) Striking features were non-atherosclerotic stenosis with negative Sudan III, seen in the ICA less than 200 mu in diameter of almost all the hearts of stages II and III rabbits.
(19) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
(20) The most striking differences were observed on the factors: Psychopathic deviation, Mania, Schizophrenia greater than controls and social introversion lower than controls.
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”.