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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hit \Hit\, pron.
It [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hit \Hit\,
3d pers. sing. pres. of {Hide}, contracted from hideth
[Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hit \Hit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hit}; p. pr & vb n.
{Hitting}.] [OE. hitten, hutten, of Scand. origin; cf Dan.
hitte to hit, find Sw & Icel. hitta.]
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. --Shak.
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 --Locke.
There you hit him . . . that argument never fails
with him --Dryden.
Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense
of human sight. --Milton.
He scarcely hit my humor. --Tennyson.
3. To guess; to light upon or discover. ``Thou hast hit it.''
--Shak.
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. --Sir W. Temple.
{To hit out}, to perform by good luck. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hit \Hit\, v. i.
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? --Locke.
Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies,
become conjoined with them --Woodward.
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. --Shak.
And millions miss for one that hits. --Swift.
{To hit on} or {upon}, to light upon to come to by chance.
``None of them hit upon the art.'' --Addison.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hit \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. --Dryden.
2. A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate
chance; as he made a hit.
What late he called a blessing, now was wit, And
God's good providence, a lucky hit. --Pope.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
hit
n 1: a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in
baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
2: a act of hitting one thing with another; "repeated hitting
raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally
got a hit" [syn: {hitting}, {striking}]
3: a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and
marked the beginning of his career" [syn: {bang}, {smash},
{strike}]
4: an event in which two or more bodies come together [syn: {collision}]
5: a dose of a narcotic drug
6: a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all
the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
v 1: cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"
2: hit against; come into sudden contact with "The arrow hit
the target"; "The car hit a tree" [syn: {strike}, {impinge
on}, {run into}, {collide with}] [ant: {miss}]
3: affect suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really
bad weather" [syn: {strike}]
4: deal a blow to either with the hand or with an instrument;
"He hit her hard in the face"
5: reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The
thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed
of 140 miles per hour" [syn: {reach}, {attain}]
6: reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit
Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We
barely made the plane"; "I have to hit the MAC machine
before the weekend starts" [syn: {reach}, {attain}, {make},
{arrive at}, {gain}]
7: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: {shoot}, {pip}]
8: cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An
interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me" [syn: {strike},
{come to}]
9: make a strike against an enemy or a target [syn: {strike}]
10: as of a piano key or notes; "strike middle C"; also used
metaphorically: "strike a sour note [syn: {strike}]
11: hit the target or goal, as intended [ant: {miss}]
12: come upon as if by accident; meet with "We find this idea
in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not
very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting
book in the bookstore the other day" [syn: {find}, {happen},
{chance}, {bump}, {encounter}]
13: encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin
last night in a restaurant" [syn: {stumble}]
14: gain points; "The home team scored many times" [syn: {score},
{tally}, {rack up}]
15: consume to excess; "hit the bottle"
16: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss
ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: {murder}, {slay}, {dispatch},
{bump off}, {polish off}, {remove}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
hit
1. {cache hit}.
2. A request to a {web server} from a {web
browser} or other {client} (e.g. a {robot}).
The number of hits on a server may be important for
determining advertising revenue.
In the course of loading a single {web page}, a browser may
hit a web server many times e.g. to retrieve the page itself
and each {image} on the page. In contrast, caching by
browsers and {web proxies} reduces the number of hits on the
server because some requests are satisfied from the cache.
3. To press and release a key on the keyboard. Some
prefer the less aggressive "tap".
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