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7 definitions found 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". (2000-02-20)
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