strike
/stɹaɪk/ verb, noun, proper noun
Forms strikes striking struck striked strook stroke strake stricken strucken striken
- verb (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate. “Please strike the last sentence.”
- verb (transitive) To hit. “Strike the door sharply with your foot and see if it comes loose. A bullet struck him. The ship struck a reef.”
- verb (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- verb (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows. “A hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.”
- verb (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping. “We will strike a medal in your honour.”
- verb (intransitive, dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground. “The ship struck in the night.”
- verb (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds. “The clock struck twelve. The drums strike up a march.”
- verb (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- noun (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- noun (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
- noun A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest. “After an eleven-week strike, it was management that finally blinked.”
- noun A blow or application of physical force against something.
- noun (military, by extension) An attack, not necessarily physical. “air strike; first strike”
- noun (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- noun (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- noun (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at. “The batsmen have crossed, and Dhoni now has the strike.”
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
thump strike work walkout work stoppage rap tap ten-strike hit smash smasher bang affect impress move impinge on run into collide with walk out fall shine come to fall upon come upon light upon chance upon come across chance on happen upon attain discover
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English stryken, from Old English strīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan, from Proto-Germanic *strīkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”).
Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen, Danish stryge, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva.
English surname, from the verb strike.
Webster’s 1913
- verb 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.
- verb To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.
- verb To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields.
- verb To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
Etymology [OE. striken to strike, proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, 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.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “strike”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details