hit
( international standards ) ISO 639-2 &ISO 639-3 language code forHittite . FromMiddle English hitten ( “ to hit, strike, make contact with ” ) , fromOld English hittan ( “ to meet with, come upon, fall in with ” ) , fromOld Norse hitta ( “ to strike, meet ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *hittijaną ( “ to come upon, find ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- ( “ to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew ” ) .
Cognate withIcelandic hitta ( “ to meet ” ) ,Danish hitte ( “ to find ” ) ,Latin caedō ( “ to kill ” ) ,Albanian qit ( “ to hit, throw, pull out, release ” ) .
hit (third-person singular simple present hits ,present participle hitting ,simple past hit or ( dialectal, obsolete ) hat or ( rare, dialectal ) het ,past participle hit or ( archaic, rare, dialectal ) hitten )
Two boxershitting each other ( heading, physical ) Tostrike . ( transitive ) To administer ablow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.One boyhit the other.
1879 ,R[ichard] J[efferies] , chapter II, inThe Amateur Poacher , London:Smith, Elder, & Co. , [ … ] ,→OCLC :Orionhit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
1922 February,James Joyce , “[[ Episode 15] ]”, inUlysses , Paris:Shakespeare and Company , [ … ] ,→OCLC :Bello : (Shouts) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That's the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you! (He slaps her face)Bello : (Whimpers) You're afterhitting me. I'll tell [ …]
1934 ,Robert E. Howard ,The Slugger's Game :I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him tohit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.
( transitive ) To come intocontact with forcefully and suddenly.The ballhit the fence.
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift ],Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. [ … ] [ Gulliver’s Travels ] , volume I, London: [ … ] Benj[ amin] Motte , [ … ] ,→OCLC , part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag):a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of themhit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.
1882 ,Nathaniel Hawthorne ,Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance :Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of whichhit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.
( intransitive ) To strike against something.a. 1705 , John Locke, “An Examination of P[ère]Malebranche ’s Opinion of Seeing All Things in God”, inPosthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: [ … ] , London: [ … ] A[ wnsham] and J[ ohn] Churchill, [ … ] , published1706 ,→OCLC :If bodies be extension alone,[ …] how can they move andhit one against another?
( transitive ) To activate abutton orkey bypressing and releasing it.Hit the Enter key to continue.
( transitive , slang ) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
1973 , Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola,The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)FREDO: Mikey, why would they everhit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch. ( transitive , military ) To attack, especially amphibiously.If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever havehit that island.
( figurative , ambitransitive ) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.Their coffee reallyhits the spot.
I used to listen to that song all the time, but ithits different(ly) now.
( transitive ) To manage totouch (a target) in the right place.Antonym: miss Ihit the jackpot.
( transitive , colloquial ) Toswitch on .Antonyms: cut ,kill Somebody's been here!Hit the lights!
( transitive , music , informal ) Tocommence playing.I'd love to hear your band play.Hit it boys!
( transitive , colloquial ) To briefly visit.Wehit the grocery store on the way to the park.
( transitive , informal ) Toencounter anobstacle or otherdifficulty .You'llhit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.
Wehit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.
( heading ) To attain, to achieve. ( transitive , informal ) Toreach orachieve .The moviehits theaters in December.
The temperature couldhit 110°F tomorrow.
Wehit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night.
2004 , Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America,Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door , Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:As soon as wehit Jazzafrazz Town, we were overcome by the glitz and the glamour.
2012 August 1 , Owen Gibson, “London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal”, inGuardian Unlimited [1] :And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little abouthitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.
( intransitive ) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.c. 1604–1605 (date written) ,William Shakespeare , “All’s Well, that Ends Well ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC ,[ Act II, scene i] :And oft ithits / Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
1733 ,[Jonathan Swift ],On Poetry: A Rapsody , Dublin, London: [ … ] [ R. Fleming] [ a] nd sold by J. Huggonson, [ … ] ,→OCLC ,page 3 , lines1–2 :All Human Race wou’d fain beWits , / And Millions miſs, for one thathits .
Toguess ; tolight upon ordiscover .c. 1590–1592 (date written) ,William Shakespeare , “The Taming of the Shrew ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC ,[ Act II, scene i] :Thou hasthit it.
( transitive ) Toaffect negatively .The economy washit by a recession. The hurricanehit his fishing business hard.
( figuratively ) Toattack .2016 March 3, Nick Gass, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump on small hands: 'I guarantee you there's no problem'”, inPolitico [2] :I have to say this, hehit my hands. Nobody has everhit my hands. I’ve never heard of this one. Look at those hands. Are they small hands?
( heading, games ) To make a play. ( transitive , card games ) Inblackjack , to deal a card to.Hit me.
( intransitive , baseball ) To come up to bat.Joneshit for the pitcher.
( backgammon ) To take up, or replace by apiece belonging to the opposing player; said of a singleunprotected piece on apoint .( transitive , computing , programming ) Touse ; toconnect to.The external web servershit DBSRV7, but the internal web serverhits DBSRV3.
( transitive , US , slang ) To havesex with.I'dhit that!
( transitive , US , slang ) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularlymarijuana .2005 , “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics),Most Known Unknown [3] , performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:Tastes like fruit when youhit it; got to have bread to get it.
( transitive , bodybuilding ) (of an exercise) toaffect , towork abody part .This is another great exercise whichhits the long head.
( transitive , bodybuilding ) Towork out .With that said, the grouphitting their legs just once a week still made gains.
( antonym(s) of “ manage to touch in the right place ” ) : miss Terms derived fromhit (verb)
to administer a blow
—see also strike Afar:oogore Afrikaans:slaan (af) Albanian:dëkoj (sq) Arabic:ضَرَبَ (ar) ( ḍaraba ) Hijazi Arabic:ضرب ( ḍarab ) Armenian:խփել (hy) ( xpʻel ) ,հարվածել (hy) ( harvacel ) Aromanian:agudescu ,bat (roa-rup) Asturian:golpiar (ast) Azerbaijani:vurmaq (az) ,çırpmaq Basque:jo (eu) Belarusian:біць impf ( bicʹ ) ,пабі́ць pf ( pabícʹ ) ;удара́ць impf ( udarácʹ ) ,ўдара́ць impf ( ŭdarácʹ ) ,уда́рыць pf ( udárycʹ ) ,ўда́рыць pf ( ŭdárycʹ ) Bengali:আঘাত করা ( aghat kora ) Bulgarian:у́дрям (bg) impf ( údrjam ) ,уда́ря pf ( udárja ) ,би́я (bg) impf ( bíja ) Burmese:ရိုက် (my) ( ruik ) Catalan:colpejar (ca) ,batre (ca) ,pegar (ca) ,copejar (ca) Cherokee:ᎬᏂᎭ ( gvniha ) Chinese:Cantonese:打擊 / 打击 ( daa2 gik1 ) Mandarin:打擊 / 打击 (zh) ( dǎjī ) Czech:praštit pf ,uhodit (cs) pf ,udeřit (cs) pf Danish:slå (da) Dutch:raken (nl) ,treffen (nl) ,slaan (nl) Esperanto:frapi (eo) ,bati (eo) ,trafi (eo) Estonian:lööma (et) Finnish:iskeä (fi) ,lyödä (fi) French:frapper (fr) ,battre (fr) Galician:golpear (gl) ,bater (gl) Georgian:დარტყმა ( darṭq̇ma ) ,რტყმა ( rṭq̇ma ) German:schlagen (de) ,treffen (de) ,stoßen (de) Gothic:𐌱𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰𐌽 ( bliggwan ) Greek:χτυπώ (el) ( chtypó ) Ancient:τύπτω ( túptō ) ,πλήσσω ( plḗssō ) ,βάλλω ( bállō ) ( by throwing something ) ,τυγχάνω ( tunkhánō ) ,οὐτάω ( outáō ) ,τοξεύω ( toxeúō ) ( with an arrow ) ,ἀκοντίζω ( akontízō ) ( with a javelin ) Hebrew:הרביץ (he) ( hirbíts ) Higaonon:naigo Hindi:मारना (hi) ( mārnā ) Hungarian:üt (hu) Icelandic:slá (is) Ido:frapar (io) Indonesian:pukul (id) Ingrian:iskiä ,löövvä ,tappaa ,issuttaa ,peeksää ,napsuttaa ,kleittää ,kommia Irish:buail Old Irish:benaid Italian:colpire (it) ,picchiare (it) ,battere (it) Jamaican Creole:lick Japanese:打つ (ja) ( うつ, utsu ) ,叩く (ja) ( たたく, tataku ) Kambera:palu Kazakh:ұру ( ūru ) ,соғу ( soğu ) Khmer:វាយ (km) ( viəy ) Korean:치다 (ko) ( chida ) Kyrgyz:уруу (ky) ( uruu ) Lao:ຕີ ( tī ) Latgalian:sist ,laubt ,dyurēt Latin:feriō ,battuo ,pello ,pulso Latvian:sist (lv) ,iebelzt Lithuanian:smogti (lt) ,mušti (lt) Macedonian:удира impf ( udira ) ,бие impf ( bie ) Malay:pukul (ms) Malayalam:അടിക്കുക (ml) ( aṭikkuka ) Mongolian:Cyrillic:цохих (mn) ( coxix ) Nanai:дуктэ- ( dukte- ) Nepali:ठोक्नु ( ṭhoknu ) Norman:paffer ( Jersey ) Norwegian:Bokmål:slå (no) Nynorsk:slå Occitan:batre (oc) Odia:ମାରିବା (or) ( māribā ) Old Church Slavonic:Cyrillic:бити impf ( biti ) Old English:slēan Pashto:خرپول (ps) ( xrapawǝl ) Persian:زدن (fa) ( zadan ) Polish:uderzać (pl) impf ,uderzyć (pl) pf Portuguese:golpear (pt) ,bater (pt) Quechua:maqay Romanian:lovi (ro) ,bate (ro) Romansch:batter ,pitgar Russian:ударя́ть (ru) impf ( udarjátʹ ) ,уда́рить (ru) pf ( udáritʹ ) ,стуча́ть (ru) impf ( stučátʹ ) ,сту́кнуть (ru) pf ( stúknutʹ ) ,бить (ru) impf ( bitʹ ) ,поби́ть (ru) pf ( pobítʹ ) Saho:oogore Sanskrit:तुदति (sa) ( tudati ) Scottish Gaelic:buail Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:у̀дарити pf ,би̏ти impf ,за̀бити pf ,опи́здити pf ( vulgar ) Roman:ùdariti (sh) pf ,bȉti (sh) impf ,zàbiti (sh) pf ,opízditi (sh) pf ( vulgar ) Shor:шабарға ( şabarğa ) Slovak:udrieť pf ,biť impf Slovene:udariti pf ,bíti (sl) impf Sorbian:Lower Sorbian:biś impf ,deriś pf Spanish:golpear (es) ,pegar (es) ,batir (es) ,dar (es) ,fajar (es) ,fajear (es) ,arrear (es) ,cinchonear (es) ( with an object, Central America ) Sundanese:tinggang (su) Swedish:slå (sv) ,slå till (sv) Tajik:задан ( zadan ) Ternate:tero Tetum:baku Thai:ตี (th) ( dtii ) Tok Pisin:paitim ,kilim Turkish:vurmak (tr) Turkmen:urmak Ugaritic:𐎎𐎃𐎕 ( mḫṣ ) Ukrainian:вдаря́ти impf ( vdarjáty ) ,вда́рити pf ( vdáryty ) ,би́ти (uk) impf ( býty ) Urdu:مارنا ( mārnā ) Uyghur:ئۇرماق ( urmaq ) Uzbek:urmoq (uz) Vietnamese:đập (vi) ,đánh (vi) Volapük:flapön (vo) ,leflapön ( augmentative ) Welsh:taro (cy) Yiddish:שלאָגן ( shlogn ) Zealandic:slae
to come into contact with forcefully and suddenly
Bulgarian:у́дрям (bg) impf ( údrjam ) ,уда́ря pf ( udárja ) Catalan:xocar (ca) Danish:slå imod French:cogner (fr) German:schlagen (de) ,( colloquial ) knallen (de) Hebrew:פָּגַע (he) ( pagá ) Khiamniungan Naga:thóng Malayalam:കൊള്ളുക (ml) ( koḷḷuka ) Polish:uderzać (pl) impf ,uderzyć (pl) pf ,stukać (pl) impf ,stuknąć (pl) pf Portuguese:bater (pt) ,chocar -se ,colidir (pt) Russian:ударя́ться (ru) impf ( udarjátʹsja ) ,уда́риться (ru) pf ( udáritʹsja ) Spanish:dar (es) ,chocar (es) ,chancar (es) Swedish:slå emot Tok Pisin:paitim ,kilim
to attack, chiefly amphibiously
to manage to touch in the right place
Arabic:أَصَابَ ( ʔaṣāba ) Belarusian:пацэліць pf ( pacelicʹ ) Bulgarian:у́дрям (bg) impf ( údrjam ) ,уда́ря pf ( udárja ) ,поразя́вам (bg) impf ( porazjávam ) ,улу́чвам (bg) impf ( ulúčvam ) , Catalan:encertar (ca) Czech:trefit Danish:træffe (da) Dutch:raken (nl) ,treffen (nl) French:toucher (fr) German:treffen (de) Icelandic:hitta (is) Ingrian:tarkata Irish:aimsigh Japanese:当てる (ja) ( あてる, ateru ) Malayalam:കൊള്ളിക്കുക ( koḷḷikkuka ) Norwegian:Bokmål:treffe (no) Polish:trafiać (pl) impf ,trafić (pl) pf Portuguese:acertar (pt) ,bater (pt) ,atingir (pt) Russian:попада́ть (ru) impf ( popadátʹ ) ,попа́сть (ru) pf ( popástʹ ) ,поража́ть (ru) impf ( poražátʹ ) ,порази́ть (ru) pf ( porazítʹ ) Spanish:acertar (es) Swedish:träffa (sv) Ukrainian:влуча́ти impf ( vlučáty )
to kill a person on the instructions of a third party
to encounter a difficulty
in blackjack, to deal a card to
to have sex with
French:se taper (fr) Russian:( transitive ) тра́хать (ru) impf ( tráxatʹ ) ,тра́хнуть (ru) pf ( tráxnutʹ ) ,дрю́чить (ru) impf ( drjúčitʹ ) ,отдрю́чить (ru) pf ( otdrjúčitʹ ) ,поиме́ть (ru) pf ( poimétʹ ) ,отыме́ть (ru) pf ( otymétʹ ) ;( intransitive ) ,тра́хаться (ru) impf ( tráxatʹsja ) ,тра́хнуться (ru) pf ( tráxnutʹsja ) ,потра́хаться (ru) pf ( potráxatʹsja ) ,дрю́читься (ru) impf ( drjúčitʹsja ) ,отдрю́читься pf ( otdrjúčitʹsja ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:опа́лити pf Roman:opáliti (sh) pf
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hit (plural hits )
Ablow ; apunch ; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.1693 ,Decimus Junius Juvenalis ,John Dryden , transl., “[ The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fourth Satyr”, inThe Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse . [ … ] Together with the Satires ofAulus Persius Flaccus . [ … ] , London: [ … ] Jacob Tonson [ … ] ,→OCLC :So he the fam'd Cilician fencer prais'd, / And, at eachhit , with wonder seem'd amaz'd.
Thehit was very slight.
Something very successful, such as asong ,film , orvideo game , that receives widespread recognition andacclaim .1848 , “Her Majesty's Theatre”, inThe Musical World [4] , volume23 :Marie Taglioni was anotherhit for Her Majesty's Theatre last season, and will be ahit again this season[ …]
2012 February 9, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Chico & Rita”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name) [5] :Chico & Rita opens in the modern era, as an aged, weary Chico shines shoes in his native Cuba. Then a song heard on the radio—ahit he wrote and recorded with Rita in their youth—carries him back to 1948 Havana, where they first met.
( figuratively ) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.His reputation took ahit when the new information came to light.
An attack on a location, person or people. Acollision of aprojectile with thetarget .2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, inRAIL , number948 , page43 :But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneoushits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
In the game ofBattleship , a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is. ( computing , Internet ) Amatch found by searching a computer system orsearch engine ( Internet ) A measured visit to aweb site , a request for a single file from a web server.My site received twice as manyhits after being listed in asearch engine . An approximately correct answer in atest set . ( baseball ) The complete play, when thebatter reachesbase without the benefit of awalk ,error , or fielder’s choice.The catcher got ahit to lead off the fifth.
( colloquial ) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.Where am I going to get my nexthit ?
A premeditatedmurder done for criminal or political purposes.2023 August 30, Megan K. Stack, Rob Stothard, “He Was Shot 14 Times at the Dinner Table. His Children Want to Know if Britain Ordered the Hit.”, inThe New York Times [6] ,→ISSN :The questions that have always haunted the family — who ordered thehit , and why, and who in London might have known — remain unanswered.
( dated ) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.a happyhit
( backgammon ) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.( backgammon ) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than agammon .blow, punch
Arabic:ضَرْبَة f ( ḍarba ) Armenian:հարված (hy) ( harvac ) Belarusian:уда́р m ( udár ) Bulgarian:у́дар (bg) m ( údar ) Catalan:cop (ca) m Chinese:Mandarin:打擊 / 打击 (zh) ( dǎjī ) Czech:úder (cs) m ,rána (cs) f Dutch:slag (nl) f ,stoot (nl) m Esperanto:frapo ,bato Finnish:isku (fi) ,lyönti (fi) French:coup (fr) m Georgian:please add this translation if you can German:Schlag (de) m ,Hieb (de) m ,Stoß (de) m ,Treffer (de) m Greek:Ancient Greek:πληγή f ( plēgḗ ) Hebrew:מַכָּה (he) ( maká ) Ido:frapo (io) Ingrian:nappu ,isku ,napsu ,tiltukkain Irish:buille ,béim (ga) ,cíonán Japanese:衝突 (ja) ( しょうとつ, shōtotsu ) ,一撃 (ja) ( いちげき, ichigeki ) Korean:일격(一擊) (ko) ( ilgyeok ) Latgalian:sitīņs ,īsisšona Latvian:sitiens Lithuanian:smūgis Macedonian:удар m ( udar ) Maori:whakapānga Norwegian:Bokmål:slag (no) n Old English:sleġe m Persian:ضربه (fa) ( zarbe ) Plautdietsch:Schlach m Polish:uderzenie (pl) n Portuguese:golpe (pt) m ,batida (pt) f Romanian:lovitură (ro) f Romansch:frida f ,freida f ,cuolp m Russian:уда́р (ru) m ( udár ) Scottish Gaelic:beum m ,bualadh m ,buille f Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:у̏да̄р m Roman:ȕdār (sh) m Slovak:úder m Spanish:golpe (es) m ,sequete m Swedish:slag (sv) n Ukrainian:уда́р (uk) m ( udár ) Volapük:flap (vo) ,( augmentative ) leflap Yiddish:שלאָג m ( shlog )
success, especially in the entertainment industry
Belarusian:хіт m ( xit ) ,шля́гер m ( šljáhjer ) Bulgarian:хит (bg) m ( hit ) ,шла́гер m ( šláger ) Catalan:èxit (ca) m ,hit (ca) m Czech:hit (cs) m ,šlágr (cs) m Danish:hit (da) n ,schlager c ,slager c Dutch:hit (nl) m ,schlager (nl) m Esperanto:ŝlagro Estonian:šlaager ,hitt Faroese:hitt n Finnish:hitti (fi) ,menestys (fi) French:hit (fr) m ,tube (fr) m ,schlager (fr) m ( somewhat dated ) German:Hit (de) m ,Erfolg (de) m ,Schlager (de) m Greek:σουξέ (el) n ( souxé ) Hebrew:לָהִיט (he) m ( lahít ) Hungarian:sláger (hu) Japanese:ヒット (ja) ( hitto ) ,ヒット曲 ( ヒットきょく, hittokyoku ) ( hit song ) Kashubian:przebòj m Korean:히트 (ko) ( hiteu ) ,히트곡 ( hiteugok ) ( hit song ) Latvian:hits m ,šlagers m Lithuanian:hitas m Macedonian:хит m ( hit ) ,шлагер m ( šlager ) Manx:ard-speeideilys m Norwegian:Bokmål:hit (no) m ,slager m Polish:hit (pl) m ,przebój (pl) m ,szlagier m Portuguese:hit (pt) m ,sucesso (pt) m Romanian:șlagăr (ro) n Russian:хит (ru) m ( xit ) ,шля́гер (ru) m ( šljáger ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:хи̏т m ,шла́гер m Roman:hȉt (sh) m ,šláger (sh) m Slovak:hit (sk) m ,šláger m Slovene:hit m ,šlager m Spanish:éxito (es) m ,hit (es) m ,arrasar (es) ( be a hit ) Swedish:hit (sv) c ,schlager (sv) c Ukrainian:хіт m ( xit ) ,шля́гер m ( šljáher ) Yiddish:שלאַגער m ( shlager )
collision of a projectile with the target
computing, Internet: positive result of a search
Internet: measured visit to a web site
approximately correct answer in a test set
(baseball) complete play, when the batter reaches base
Finnish:hitti (fi) French:coup sûr (fr) m Italian:valida (it) f ,battuta (it) f valida Japanese:安打 (ja) ( あんだ, anda ) ,ヒット (ja) ( hitto ) Spanish:hit m ,jit m ,imparable (es) m ,batazo m ,toletazo m ,inatrapable m ,sencillo (es) m ,indiscutible m
dose of an illegal or addictive drug
murder for criminal or political purposes
Albanian:please add this translation if you can Arabic:please add this translation if you can Armenian:please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani:please add this translation if you can Belarusian:please add this translation if you can Chinese:Mandarin:please add this translation if you can Esperanto:please add this translation if you can Estonian:please add this translation if you can Finnish:tilausmurha French:contrat (fr) m ,assassinat commandité m Georgian:please add this translation if you can German:no equivalent term in German, but see Mord (de) m ( murder ) ,Ermordung (de) f ( murder ) ,Auftragsmord (de) m ( contract kill ) Hungarian:please add this translation if you can Latvian:please add this translation if you can Lithuanian:please add this translation if you can Polish:zabójstwo (pl) n ,zamach (pl) m ,morderstwo (pl) n Portuguese:assassínio (pt) m ( Portugal ) ,assassinato (pt) m ( Brazil ) Romanian:please add this translation if you can Russian:покуше́ние (ru) n ( pokušénije ) ,нападе́ние (ru) n ( napadénije ) ,уби́йство (ru) n ( ubíjstvo ) Slovak:please add this translation if you can Turkish:please add this translation if you can Ukrainian:please add this translation if you can
peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought
backgammon: move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point
backgammon: game won after the adversary has removed some of his men
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hit (notcomparable )
Very successful.The band played theirhit song to the delight of the fans.
FromMiddle English hit ( “ it ” ) , fromOld English hit ( “ it ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *hit ( “ this, this one ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *ḱe- ,*ḱey- ( “ this, here ” ) . Cognate withDutch het ( “ it ” ) . More atit ; also note'it .
hit (subjective and objective hit ,reflexive and intensive hitself ,possessive adjective and noun hits )
( dialectal ) It .1922 , Philip Gengembre Hubert,The Atlantic monthly , volume130 :But howhit was to come about didn't appear.
1998 , Nancy A. Walker,What's so funny?: humor in American culture :Now, George, grease it good, an' lethit slide down the hillhits own way.
FromOld High German hiutu , fromhiu +tagu , acalque ofLatin hodie . Cognate withGerman heute ,Dutch heden .
hit
( Alsatian ) today Hit isch dr Jean-Pierre so drüri. ―Jean-Pierre is so sadtoday . FromEnglish hit .
hit m (plural hits )
hit ( something very successful ) Synonym: èxit 2020 February 6,Time Out Barcelona [7] , volume583 , page 8, column Sèries:Us passareu els capítols amb el Shazam obert buscant elshits que sonen. You'll spend the episodes with Shazam open, searching for thehits that play. FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita , fromProto-Austronesian *(i-)kita .Doublet ofta .
hit
we ,us (inclusive)Donald M. Topping (1973 )Chamorro Reference Grammar [8] , Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. FromEnglish hit .
hit
( Hong Kong Cantonese ) hit ;popular ;hot FromEnglish hit .
hit m inan
hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)Synonym: šlágr Declension ofhit (hard masculine inanimate )
FromEnglish hit .
hit n (singular definite hittet ,plural indefinite hit or hits )
hit ( something very successful ) Borrowed fromEnglish hit .
hit m (plural hits ,diminutive hitje n )
ahit song , a verypopular andsuccessful song ( by extension ) asuccess , something popular and successful( especially in the entertainment industry ) Shortening ofHitlander ( “ Shetlander ” ) .
hit m (plural hitten ,diminutive hitje n or hitske n )
( dated ) aShetland pony ( dated , regional ) anypony or smallhorse hit m (plural hits )
hit ( popular song ) hit ( success ) From the stem ofhisz ( “ to believe ” ) +-t ( noun-forming suffix ) .
hit (plural hitek )
faith ,belief ( archaic ) oath ,word of honour ( e.g. inhitves andhitet tesz ) Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end
hit in Géza Bárczi ,László Országh ,et al. , editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language ] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó , 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN . it ( dialectal spelling ) i ( dialectal pronunciation spelling ) From Jamaican Creoleit , fromEnglish it
IPA (key ) : /hɪt/
hit n
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. Hit ( german-based spelling ) FromDutch hit , fromEnglish hit .
hit f
( slang , Dutch) something popular (book, song, band, country)Slang. Mainly used when speaking Dutch, rather than in real Limburgish. Overall speaking, Limburgish is more conservative, thereforeslaag is more often used.
Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead. The dative got out of use around 1900. As this is a recent loanword, there is no conjugation for it to be found. hit
Alternative form ofhet FromOld English hit , fromProto-West Germanic *hit , fromProto-Germanic *hit ( “ this, this one ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *ḱe- ,*ḱey- ( “ this, here ” ) .
hit (accusative hit ,genitive hit ,his ,possessive determiner hit ,his )
Third-person singular neuter pronoun: it Sometimes used in reference to a child or man: he ,she Third-person singular neuter accusative pronoun: it Third-person singular neuter genitive pronoun: its ( impersonal, placeholder ) Third-person singular impersonal placeholder pronoun: it c. 1335-1361 ,William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 4, recto, lines3-4 ; republished asW. W. Skeat , editor,The Romance of William of Palerne [9] ,London :Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. ,1867 ,→OCLC ,page 6 :Hit bi fel in þat foreſt · þere faſt by ſide / þer woned a wel old cherl · þat was a couherdeIt so happened that right there in that forest / there was a very old peasant; a cowherd.Middle English personal pronouns nominative accusative dative genitive possessive singular 1st person I ,ich ,ik me min mi 1 min 2nd person þou þe þin þi 1 þin 3rd person m he him hine 2 him his his hisen f sche ,heo hire heo hire hire hires ,hiren n hit hit him 2 his ,hit — dual3 1st person wit unk unker 2nd person ȝit inc inker plural 1st person we us ,ous oure oure oures ,ouren 2nd person 4 ye yow your your youres ,youren 3rd person inh. he hem he 2 hem here here heres ,heren bor. þei þem ,þeim þeir þeir þeires ,þeiren
1 Used preconsonantally or before
h .
2 Early or dialectal.
3 Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English.
4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.
hit (nominative pronoun hit )
Third-person singular neuter possessive determiner: it FromMiddle Norwegian hít . CompareSwedish hit .
hit
here ( to this place ) ,hither “hit” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .FromMiddle Norwegian hít . CompareSwedish hit .
hit
here ( to this place ) ,hither FromOld Norse hít . CompareFaroese hít ( “ condom ” ) .
hit f (definite singular hita ,indefinite plural hiter ,definite plural hitene )
aleather bag (usually made from ahide in a single piece) ( dialectal , derogatory ) used of a woman, especially in compounds “hit” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .“hit” , inNorsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet , Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016FromProto-Germanic *hit .
hit
it Middle Dutch:het Dutch:het (only the pronoun; the definite article is a weakened form ofdat ) Limburgish:hèt “hit ”, inOudnederlands Woordenboek ,2012 FromProto-Germanic *hit ( “ this, this one ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *ḱe- ,*ḱey- ( “ this, here ” ) . Cognate withOld Frisian hit ( “ it ” ) ,Old High German iz ( “ it ” ) ,Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍄𐌰 ( hita ,“ it ” ) . More athē .
hit n (accusative hit ,genitive his ,dative him )
it Old English personal pronouns
FromProto-Germanic *hit ( “ this, this one ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *ḱe- ,*ḱey- ( “ this, here ” ) . Cognate withOld English hit ( “ it ” ) ,Old High German iz ( “ it ” ) ,Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍄𐌰 ( hita ,“ it ” ) .
hit n (accusative hit ,genitive sīn ,dative him )
it Saterland Frisian:et West Frisian:it See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
hit
neuter nominative / accusative singular ofhinn FromProto-Celtic *siti- ( “ length ” ) .
hit
until Borrowed fromEnglish hit , fromMiddle English hitten , fromOld English hittan , fromOld Norse hitta , fromProto-Germanic *hittijaną , fromProto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- .
IPA (key ) : /ˈxit/ Rhymes:-it Syllabification:hit hit m inan
( music ) hit ( a success, especially in the entertainment industry ) hit inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANhit in Polish dictionaries at PWNUnadapted borrowing fromEnglish hit .
hit m (plural hits )
hit ( success, especially in the entertainment industry ) Synonym: êxito FromEnglish hit .
hit n (plural hituri )
hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish hit .
hit m (plural hits )
hit ( success ) Synonym: éxito FromOld Swedish hit , from *hī +at .
Composed in a similar way:Icelandic hegat andhingað .
Pressing the button markedHIT (to here) will make the lift come to the floor where the button is located. hit (notcomparable )
to here,hither , (often in practice, in translations)here Antonym: dit ( “ to there, thither ” ) Hon komhit , så nu är hon här She came[to] here , so now she is here Hon komhär (for comparison) She cameat this location (odd-sounding) Jag komhit igår I came[to] here yesterday springahit ochdit runto here andto there / runhither andthither (indicating for example chaos or a lack of direction) FromEnglish hit .
hit c
( informal ) ahit (popular song, or some other popular or successful thing)Borrowed fromEnglish hit .
hit (definite accusative hidi ,plural hitler )
( music ) hit Borrowed fromEnglish heat . CompareGerman Hitze .
hit (nominative plural hits )
heat ,warmth 1 status as a case is disputed2 in later, non-classical Volapük only