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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hit \Hit\, pron. It. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hit \Hit\, 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Hide}, contracted from hideth. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hit \Hit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hit}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hitting}.] [OE. hitten, hutten, of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. hitte to hit, find, Sw. & Icel. hitta.] 1. To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at). [1913 Webster] I think you have hit the mark. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right. --Locke. [1913 Webster] There you hit him; . . . that argument never fails with him. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight. --Milton. [1913 Webster] He scarcely hit my humor. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 3. To guess; to light upon or discover. "Thou hast hit it." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. (Backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point. [1913 Webster] {To hit off}, to describe with quick characteristic strokes; as, to hit off a speaker. --Sir W. Temple. {To hit out}, to perform by good luck. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hit \Hit\, v. i. 1. To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on. [1913 Webster] If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another? --Locke. [1913 Webster] Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them. --Woodward. [1913 Webster] 2. To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck. [1913 Webster] And oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. --Shak. [1913 Webster] And millions miss for one that hits. --Swift. [1913 Webster] {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." --Addison. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hit \Hit.\ adj. Having become very popular or acclaimed; -- said of entertainment performances; as, a hit song, a hit movie. [PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hit \Hit\, n. 1. A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. [1913 Webster] So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, And, at each hit, with wonder seems amazed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster +PJC] What late he called a blessing, now was wit, And God's good providence, a lucky hit. --Pope. 3. A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit. [1913 Webster] 4. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a {gammon}. [1913 Webster] 5. (Baseball) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a {base hit}. [1913 Webster] 6. An act of murder performed for hire, esp. by a professional assassin. [PJC] {Base hit}, {Safe hit}, {Sacrifice hit}. (Baseball) See under {Base}, {Safe}, etc. From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: hit n 1: (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit" 2: the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" [syn: {hit}, {hitting}, {striking}] 3: a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang" [syn: {hit}, {smash}, {smasher}, {strike}, {bang}] 4: (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together; "the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction" [syn: {collision}, {hit}] 5: a dose of a narcotic drug 6: a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit" 7: a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide" v 1: cause to move by striking; "hit a ball" 2: hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow" [syn: {hit}, {strike}, {impinge on}, {run into}, {collide with}] [ant: {miss}] 3: deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face" 4: reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" [syn: {reach}, {make}, {attain}, {hit}, {arrive at}, {gain}] 5: affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight" [syn: {hit}, {strike}] 6: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: {shoot}, {hit}, {pip}] 7: encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" [syn: {stumble}, {hit}] 8: gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" [syn: {score}, {hit}, {tally}, {rack up}] 9: cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me"; "The thought struck terror in our minds"; "They were struck with fear" [syn: {hit}, {strike}, {come to}] 10: make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target; "The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939"; "We must strike the enemy's oil fields"; "in the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2" [syn: {strike}, {hit}] 11: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: {murder}, {slay}, {hit}, {dispatch}, {bump off}, {off}, {polish off}, {remove}] 12: drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling" [syn: {hit}, {strike}] 13: reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour" [syn: {reach}, {hit}, {attain}] 14: produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically; "The pianist strikes a middle C"; "strike `z' on the keyboard"; "her comments struck a sour note" [syn: {strike}, {hit}] 15: consume to excess; "hit the bottle" 16: hit the intended target or goal 17: pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars" From Swedish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-swe-eng]: hit here; hither; this way From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Hit /hit/ hit From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: hit /hit/ nag; pony