5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Strike \Strike\, n.
1. A sudden finding of rich ore in mining; hence any sudden
success or good fortune, esp. financial.
2. (Bowling, U. S.) Act of leveling all the pins with the
first bowl; also the score thus made Sometimes called
{double spare}.
3. (Baseball) Any actual or constructive striking at the
pitched ball, three of which if the ball is not hit
fairly, cause the batter to be put out hence any of
various acts or events which are ruled as equivalent to
such a striking, as failing to strike at a ball so pitched
that the batter should have struck at it
4. (Tenpins) Same as {Ten-strike}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Strike \Strike\, v. t. [imp. {Struck}; p. p. {Struck},
{Stricken}({Stroock}, {Strucken}, Obs.); p. pr & vb n.
{Striking}. Struck is more commonly used in the p. p. than
stricken.] [OE. striken to strike, proceed, flow, AS
str[=i]can to go proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub,
stroke, strike, to move go G. streichen OHG. str[=i]hhan,
L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off (but
perhaps not to L. stringere in sense to draw tight), striga a
row, a furrow. Cf {Streak}, {Stroke}.]
1. 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.
He at Philippi kept His sword e'en like a dancer;
while I struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius.
--Shak.
2. To come in collision with to strike against; as a bullet
struck him the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship
struck a reef.
3. To give as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a
force to to dash; to cast.
They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the
two sideposts --Ex. xii. 7.
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.
--Byron.
4. To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as to strike
coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
5. To thrust in to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in
the earth; as a tree strikes its roots deep.
6. To punish; to afflict; to smite.
To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes
for equity. --Prov. xvii.
26.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the
first view. --Atterbury.
They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
--Pope.
10. 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.
How often has stricken you dumb with his irony!
--Landor.
11. To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a
stroke; as to strike a light.
Waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a
universal peace through sea and land. --Milton.
12. To cause to ignite; as to strike a match.
13. To make and ratify; as to strike a bargain.
Note: Probably borrowed from the L. f[oe]dus ferrire, to
strike a compact, so called because an animal was
struck and killed as a sacrifice on such occasions.
14. To take forcibly or fraudulently; as to strike money.
[Old Slang]
15. 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
16. (Masonry) To cut off as a mortar joint, even with the
face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
17. To hit upon or light upon suddenly; as my eye struck a
strange word they soon struck the trail.
18. To borrow money of to make a demand upon as he struck
a friend for five dollars. [Slang]
19. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor. --B. Edwards.
20. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
Behold, I thought, He will . . . strike his hand
over the place and recover the leper. --2 Kings v.
11.
21. To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past
participle. ``Well struck in years.'' --Shak.
{To strike an attitude}, {To strike a balance}. See under
{Attitude}, and {Balance}.
{To strike a jury} (Law), to constitute a special jury
ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain
number of names from a prepared list of jurors, so as to
reduce it to the number of persons required by law.
--Burrill.
{To strike a lead}.
a (Mining) To find a vein of ore.
b Fig.: To find a way to fortune. [Colloq.]
{To strike} {a ledger, or an account}, to balance it
{To strike hands with}.
a To shake hands with --Halliwell.
b To make a compact or agreement with to agree with
{To strike off}.
a To erase from an account; to deduct; as to strike
off the interest of a debt.
b (Print.) To impress; to print; as to strike off a
thousand copies of a book.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Strike \Strike\, v. i.
To move to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as to
strike into the fields.
A mouse . . . struck forth sternly [bodily]. --Piers
Plowman.
2. To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
And fiercely took his trenchant blade in hand, With
which he stroke so furious and so fell. --Spenser.
Strike now or else the iron cools. --Shak.
3. To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as a hammer
strikes against the bell of a clock.
4. To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to
be struck; as the clock strikes.
A deep sound strikes like a rising knell. --Byron.
5. To make an attack; to aim a blow.
A puny subject strikes At thy great glory. --Shak.
Struck for throne, and striking found his doom.
--Tennyson.
6. To touch; to act by appulse.
Hinder light but from striking on it [porphyry], and
its colors vanish. --Locke.
7. To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as the ship
struck in the night.
8. To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to
penetrate.
Till a dart strike through his liver. --Prov. vii.
23.
Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion
strikes through the obscurity of the poem. --Dryden.
9. To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into as to
strike into reputation; to strike into a run.
10. To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to
signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.
That the English ships of war should not strike in
the Danish seas. --Bp. Burnet.
11. To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a
reduction, of wages.
12. To become attached to something -- said of the spat of
oysters.
13. To steal money. [Old Slang, Eng.] --Nares.
{To strike at}, to aim a blow at
{To strike for}, to start suddenly on a course for
{To strike home}, to give a blow which reaches its object, to
strike with effect.
{To strike in}.
a To enter suddenly.
b To disappear from the surface, with internal effects,
as an eruptive disease.
c To come in suddenly; to interpose; to interrupt. ``I
proposed the embassy of Constantinople for Mr
Henshaw, but my Lord Winchelsea struck in.''
--Evelyn.
d To join in after another has begun,as in singing.
{To strike in with}, to conform to to suit itself to to
side with to join with at once. ``To assert this is to
strike in with the known enemies of God's grace.''
--South.
{To strike out}.
a To start to wander; to make a sudden excursion; as
to strike out into an irregular course of life.
b To strike with full force.
c (Baseball) To be put out for not hitting the ball
during one's turn at the bat.
{To strike up}, to commence to play as a musician; to begin
to sound, as an instrument. ``Whilst any trump did sound,
or drum struck up.'' --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Strike \Strike\, n.
1. The act of striking.
2. 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.
3. A bushel; four pecks. [Prov. Eng.] --Tusser.
4. An old measure of four bushels. [Prov. Eng.]
5. Fullness of measure; hence excellence of quality.
Three hogsheads of ale of the first strike. --Sir W.
Scott.
6. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence. [Obs.]
7. 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.
Strikes are the insurrections of labor. --F. A.
Walker.
8. (Iron Working) A puddler's stirrer.
9. (Geol.) 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.
10. The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money,
by threat of injury; blackmailing.
{Strike block} (Carp.), a plane shorter than a jointer, used
for fitting a short joint. --Moxon.
{Strike of flax}, a handful that may be hackled at once.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer.
{Strike of sugar}. (Sugar Making)
a The act of emptying the teache, or last boiler, in
which the cane juice is exposed to heat, into the
coolers.
b The quantity of the sirup thus emptied at once.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
strike
n 1: a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad
work conditions; "the strike lasted more than a month
before it was settled" [syn: {work stoppage}]
2: an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or
destroy an objective; "the strike was scheduled to begin
at dawn"
3: a pitch that is in the strike zone and that the batter does
not hit; "this pitcher throws more strikes than balls"
4: a gentle blow [syn: {rap}, {tap}]
5: a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first
ball; "he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame"
[syn: {ten-strike}]
6: a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and
marked the beginning of his career" [syn: {hit}, {bang}, {smash}]
v 1: deliver a blow to deliver a stroke to
2: have an emotional or cognitive impact upon "This struck me
as odd" [syn: {affect}, {impress}, {move}]
3: hit against; come into sudden contact with "The arrow hit
the target"; "The car hit a tree" [syn: {hit}, {impinge on},
{run into}, {collide with}] [ant: {miss}]
4: make a strike against an enemy or a target [syn: {hit}]
5: indicate a certain time by striking, of clocks
6: affect suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really
bad weather" [syn: {hit}]
7: stop work in order to press demands; "The auto workers are
striking for higher wages" [syn: {walk out}]
8: touch or seem as if touching; "Light fell on her face"; "The
light struck the golden necklace" [syn: {fall}, {shine}]
9: attain; "The horse finally struck a pace" [syn: {come to}]
10: as of a piano key or notes; "strike middle C"; also used
metaphorically: "strike a sour note [syn: {hit}]
11: cause (an arc) to form (as between electrodes of an arc
lamp)
12: find unexpectedly: "she struck a goldmine" [syn: {come upon},
{light upon}, {chance upon}, {come across}, {chance on},
{happen upon}, {discover}]
13: produce by ignition; as of fire
14: remove by erasing or crossing out "Please strike this
remark from the record" [syn: {expunge}, {excise}]
15: touch or hit with a light, quick blow; "flicked him with his
hand" [syn: {flick}]
16: cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An
interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me" [syn: {hit},
{come to}]
17: of coins [syn: {mint}, {coin}]
18: arrive at or come upon as of solutions to problems
more about strike
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