“hits” is a form of
hit
/hɪt/ verb, noun, adjective, pronoun, proper noun
Forms hits hitting het hitten hitself hat Heet
- verb (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile. “One boy hit the other.”
- verb (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly. “The ball hit the fence.”
- verb (intransitive) To strike against something. “I can't get anything to hit at that distance.”
- verb (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it. “Hit the Enter key to continue.”
- verb (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party. “Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.”
- verb (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously. “If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.”
- verb (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person. “Their coffee really hits the spot.”
- verb (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place. “I hit the jackpot.”
- noun A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. “The hit was very slight.”
- noun Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- noun (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence. “His reputation took a hit when the new information came to light.”
- noun An attack on a location, person or people.
- noun A collision of a projectile with the target.
- noun In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- noun (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- noun (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server. “My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.”
- adjective Very successful. “The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.”
- pronoun (dialectal) It.
- proper noun A city in Iraq.
Synonyms
beat bump off beset bang smoke up toke hit the gym pelt thump do away with whack fall upon lay into ram smash baste batter belabor blow boom-boom hitting striking smasher strike collision impinge on run into collide with reach make
Antonyms
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
Cognate with West Frisian hitte (“to meet”), Dutch hitten (“to hit, encounter”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Faroese, Icelandic, Swedish hitta (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk hitta, hitte (“to meet; to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”). Probably also related to Dutch hei (“mallet”), German Heie (“wooden hammer, mallet”).
(something very successful): Compare typologically striking, Russian порази́тельный (porazítelʹnyj) (<~ порази́ть (porazítʹ) <~ рази́ть (razítʹ)).
From Middle English hit (“it”), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch het (“it”). More at it; also note 'it.
From Ottoman Turkish هیت (Hit) and Arabic هيت (Hit).
Webster’s 1913
- pronoun It. [Obs.] Chaucer.
- pronoun 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth. [Obs.]
- verb To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).
- verb 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.
Etymology [OE. hitten, hutten, of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. hitte to hit, find, Sw. & Icel. hitta.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “hit”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details