1977, Jaques Heyman,Equilibrium of Shell Structures, Clarendon Press, Oxford, page107:
[I]n practice, small deformations will occur in the shell onstriking the shuttering, or... alternatively, some small deformations are due to slightly imperfect placing of the original formwork.
(transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of aclock, toannounce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
The clockstruck twelve. The drumsstrike up a march.
I read with my watch upon the table, purposing to close my book at eleven o’clock. As I shut it, Saint Paul’s, and all the many church-clocks in the City—some leading, some accompanying, some following—struck that hour.
(intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat hestruck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
(intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts,[…], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and whichstruck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. Itstruck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.
The storystruck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
Defender Chris Bairdstruck twice early in the first half to help Fulham move out of the relegation zone and ease the pressure on manager Mark Hughes.
To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
tostrike the mind with surprise; tostrike somebody with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror
1734,Francis Atterbury, “A Sermon Preached at the Rolls, December 24, 1710: The Baptist's Message to Jesus, and Jesus's Answer Explained”, inSermons on Several Occasions, new edition, volume I, published from the originals by Thomas Moore, London; reprinted inSermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions, volume II, London,1820,page25:
In like manner the writings of mere men[…]strike and surprise us most upon our first perusal of them[…].
Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, / Born where Heav'n's influence scarce can penetrate. / In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, / They please as beauties, here as wondersstrike.
1591,Robert Greene, “A discourse, or rather discovery of the Nip and the Foist, laying open the nature of the Cutpurse and Pick-pocket.”, in'The Second Part of Conny-catching', London:John Wolfe; reprinted inAlexander B. Grosart, editor,'The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene', volume10, London; Aylesbury: Hazell, Watson and Viney,1881,page112:
Hee being thus duſted with meale, intreated the meale man to wipe it out of his necke, and ſtoopte downe his head: the meale man laughing to ſee him ſo rayed and whited, was willing to ſhake off the meal, and the whilſt, while hee was buſie about that, the Nippe hadſtroken the purſe and done his feate, and both courteouſly thanked the meale man and cloſely / went away with his purchaſe.
He being thus dusted with meal, entreated the meal-man to wipe it out of his neck, and stooped down his head, the meal-man laughing to see him so arrayed and whited, was willing to shake off the meal, and while he was busy about that, the nip hadstroken the purse and done his feat, and both courteously thanked the meal-man and closely went away with his purchase.[1]
(slang,archaic) To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.
(by extension) Tocapitulate; to signal asurrender by hauling down the colours.
The frigate hasstruck, sir! We've beaten them, the lily-livers!
a.1716 (date written),[Gilbert] Burnet, “Book III. Of the Rest ofKing Charles II’s Reign, from the Year 1673 to the Year 1685, in which He Died.”, in[Gilbert Burnet Jr.], editor,Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time.[…], volume I, London:[…] Thomas Ward[…], published1724,→OCLC,pages396–397:
He [King Charles II] ſent him [the Earl of Essex] Embaſſador toDenmark, where his behaviour in the affair of the flag gained him much reputation:[…]LordEſſex’s firſt buſineſs was to juſtify his behaviour in refuſing toſtrike.[…]And he found very good materials to juſtify his conduct; ſince by formal treaties it had been expreſſly ſtipulated, that theEngliſh ſhips of war ſhould notſtrike in theDaniſh ſeas.
(intransitive, by extension) To stop working as aprotest to achieve better working conditions.
1889, New York (State). Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Statistics,Annual Report (part 2, page 127)
Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of themstruck[…]
1887, Harriet W. Daly,Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page227:
It appears that a compositor had been engaged for the Northem Territory Times, and for a considerable time the editor seems to have led a comparatively unruffled existence; till in an evil hour the compositor was smitten with gold fever, andstruck work.
To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
“Strike the tent there!”—was the next order. As I hinted before, this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order tostrike the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.
1979,Texas Monthly, volume 7, number 8, page109:
The crewstruck the set with a ferocity hitherto unseen, an army more valiant in retreat than advance.
Hestruck my chains, and gently spake and smiled: As they were loosened by that Hermit old, Mine eyes were of their madness half beguiled, To answer those kind looks.
1885 October 8, “The British Association”, inNature[1], volume32, number832, page564:
In February, 1883, Mr. Hosie again left Chʻung-chʻing, and proceeded north-west to Chʻêng-tu, the capital of the province of Ssŭ-chʻuan, by way of the brine and petroleum wells of Tzŭ-liu-ching....In June, 1884, Mr. Hosie again left Chʻung-chʻing, and form Ho Chou, a three days' journey to the north of that city, hestruck westward through a beautifully cultivated and fertile country to Chia-ting Fu, on the right bank of the Min at its junction with the Tʻung River.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon Istruck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
(intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
For if either the Story move us, or the Actor help the lameneſs of it with his performance, or now and then a glittering beam of wit or paſſionſtrike through the obſcurity of the Poem, any of theſe are ſufficient to effect a preſent liking[…].
(dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; withinto.
1793,Bryan Edwards,The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, volume II, London:John Stockdale; republished in englarged and corrected edition, volume III, Philadelphia:James Humphreys,1806,page46:
In the teache the subject is still further evaporated, till it is judged sufficiently boiled to be removed from the fire. This operation is usually calledstriking; (i.e.) lading the liquor, now exceedingly thick, into the cooler.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: "In everyday English, people usually sayhit rather thanstrike."
The simple past is almost alwaysstruck, but it is often avoided by using the verbhit (even more than in other tenses) or other verbs and expressions. This is especially true in the sense ofstopped working in protest, about which many native speakers have strong opinions concerning the use or appropriateness ofstruck orstriked. These strong opinions and criticism of different usage by other people are partly due to regional differences but mostly due to the verb being essentiallydefective (not used in all tenses) in this sense. The expressionsworkers went on strike andworkers were on strike are much more common thanworkers struck andworkers striked, which sound odd, dated, or wrong to many native speakers.
The past participle is usuallystruck (e.g.He'd struck it rich, orWhen the clock had struck twelve, etc.). The formstricken is significantly rarer. However, it is still found in the sense of "to delete, cross out", as inThe Court has stricken the statement from the record. Moreover, it is used in the passive in the sense of "afflicted", as inThe city was stricken with/by disease. In other contexts it is literary or archaic.
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1990, Chris Traish, Leigh Olsson,An Overview of Martial Arts, page14:
Thus handstrikes now include single knucklestrikes, knife handstrikes, fingerstrikes, ridge handstrikes etc., and legstrikes include front kicks, kneestrikes, axe kicks,[…]
[…] and they could hear the rough sound, could hear too the firststrikes of rain as though called down by the music.
2008,Lich King (band), “Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast”, inToxic Zombie Onslaught:
He's got machine guns and hatchets and swords / And some missiles and foods with trans-fats / He will unleash mass destruction, you're dead / You just got smashed... by the ¶ Attack of the Wrath of the / War of the Death of the /Strike of the Sword of the / Blood... of the Beast
[…]our cellarer shall have orders to deliver to thee a butt of sack, a runlet of Malvesie, and three hogsheads of ale of the firststrike, yearly—If that will not quench thy thirst, thou must come to court, and become acquainted with my butler.
2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, inThe Economist[3], volume408, number8847:
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oilstrike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
2014, Michael Gorman,Effective Stillwater Fly Fishing, page87:
I must admit that my focus was divided, which limited my fishing success. I made a few casts, then arranged my inanimate subjects and took photos. When my indicator went down on my firststrike, I cleanly missed the hook up.
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According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
