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Hit   /hɪt/   Listen
verb
Hit  v. t.  (past & past part. hit; pres. part. hitting)  
1.
To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at). "I think you have hit the mark."
2.
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. "Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right." "There you hit him;... that argument never fails with him." "Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight." "He scarcely hit my humor."
3.
To guess; to light upon or discover. "Thou hast hit it."
4.
(Backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
To hit off, to describe with quick characteristic strokes; as, to hit off a speaker.
To hit out, to perform by good luck. (Obs.)


Hit  v. i.  (past & past part. hit; pres. part. hitting)  
1.
To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; followed by against or on. "If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another?" "Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them."
2.
To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often with implied chance, or luck. "And oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits." "And millions miss for one that hits."
To hit on or To hit upon, to light upon; to come to by chance; to discover unexpectedly; as, he hit on the solution after days of trying. "None of them hit upon the art."


Hit  v.  3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth. (Obs.)


noun
Hit  n.  
1.
A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. "So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, And, at each hit, with wonder seems amazed."
2.
A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit; esp. A performance, as a musical recording, movie, or play, which achieved great popularity or acclaim; also used of books or objects of commerce which become big sellers; as, the new notebook computer was a big hit with business travellers. "What late he called a blessing, now was wit, And God's good providence, a lucky hit."
3.
A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
4.
A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
5.
(Baseball) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; sometimes used specifically for a base hit.
6.
An act of murder performed for hire, esp. by a professional assassin.
Base hit, Safe hit, Sacrifice hit. (Baseball) See under Base, Safe, etc.


pronoun
Hit  pron.  It. (Obs.)





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"Hit" Quotes from Famous Books



... close up to the tree, and saw a large land crab on its way down the trunk. Jack struck a blow at him with a stick, but did not hit the beast. He then took off his coat and threw it on the crab's head, while I made an end of him with an axe. I told them that these crabs climb the trees and break off the nuts, as we had seen, and then come down to feast on them ...
— The Swiss Family Robinson Told in Words of One Syllable • Mary Godolphin
... out of his mouth when a troop of James's guards, returning full speed to their main body, fell furiously upon the Duke and inflicted two sword cuts upon his head. The regiment of Cambon began at once to fire upon the enemy, but by a miss shot they hit the Duke. "They shot the Duke," says Rapin, "through the neck, of which he instantly died, and M. Foubert, alighting to receive him, was shot in ...
— The Huguenots in France • Samuel Smiles
... a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating judgment. He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation and display of the subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar, nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the House between wind and water. He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause, to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. He worshipped that goddess wheresoever she appeared: but he paid ...
— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside
... have force against Jews, since the object of the laws was to save Christian souls from the hell which no Jew could escape save by conversion. And the diviners and seers and astrologers of the Ghetto were long in high esteem, and sometimes earned fortunes when they hit the truth, and when the truth was pleasant ...
— Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 - Studies from the Chronicles of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford
... "Ah, mademoiselle, you have hit it. They pay, and this fellow Legrand is satisfied. He has no sense of the fitness of things, yet this house has the ...
— The Light That Lures • Percy Brebner


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