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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



... alas, you've hit the truth, And I with grief can but admit Hot-blooded haste controls my youth, My idle fancies veer and flit From flower to flower, from tree to tree, And when the moment catches me, Oh, love goes by Away I fly And leave my girl ...
— Country Sentiment • Robert Graves
... the rest of the boys in your charge. Don't let them monkey with the river. I don't want to lose anybody this trip. Fall in there, and you'll bring up in the Pacific Ocean—-what's left of you will. Nothing ever'll stop you till you've hit the Sandwich Islands or ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon - The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch • Frank Gee Patchin
... literary monthly on sound lines either here or in America. But that is because the world has learnt Mr. George Smith's lesson. All can raise the flower now, for all have got the seed, but at the beginning of the 'sixties the Cornhill had the quality of originality. It exactly hit the popular taste; and in a very short time it was selling by the hundred thousand, a tremendous achievement at that epoch. But though the Cornhill did so well and though Mr. George Smith's energies remained as great as ever up till ...
— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey
... mood was changed. Gurd had hit him very hard. Indeed, no such severe blow had been struck as this unconscious thrust of Richard's. For it meant that an incident that Raymond was striving to reconcile with the ways of youth—a sowing of wild oats not destined to damage future crops—had appeared to the ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts
... which they give to him, and he mounts. The two champions, being now assured about the lion, which is shut up in the room, come at him to injure him and do him harm. They give him such blows with the maces that his shield and helmet are of little use, for when they hit him on the helmet they batter it in and break it; and the shield is broken and dissolved like ice, for they make such holes in it that one could thrust his fists through it: their onslaught is truly terrible. And he—what does he do against ...
— Four Arthurian Romances - "Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot" • Chretien de Troyes


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