strike

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[edit] Etymology

From Old English strīcan, from Proto-Germanic *strīkwanan. Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen and streiken, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva.

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strike (third-person singular simple present strikes, present participle striking, simple past struck, past participle struck or stricken)

  1. (transitive) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
    Please strike the last sentence.
  2. (transitive) To hit.
    Strike the door sharply with your foot and see if it comes loose.
  3. (intransitive) To stop working to achieve better working conditions.
    The workers struck for a week before the new contract went through.
  4. (transitive) To impress, seem or appear (to).
    Golf has always struck me as a waste of time.
    • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
      Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years. Is reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago. I was about to throw this camphor on one side, and then remembering that it was inflammable and burnt with a good bright flame, I put it into my pocket.
  5. (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
    We will strike a medal in your honour
  6. (nautical) To haul down, or lower a mast, a flag or cargo, etc.
  7. (nautical) To capitulate: to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
  8. (theatrical) To dismantle and take away the set; (strike the set)
  9. (transitive) Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
    The clock struck one.
  10. (sports) To score a goal.
    • 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, BBC:
      Defender Chris Baird struck twice early in the first half to help Fulham move out of the relegation zone and ease the pressure on manager Mark Hughes.

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to delete
to hit
to stop working to achieve better working conditions
to surrender
to impress, to seem
to make a medal etc
nautical
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[edit] Noun

strike (plural strikes)

  1. (baseball) a status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught
  2. (bowling) the act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame
  3. a work stoppage as a form of protest
  4. a blow or application of physical force against something
  5. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
  6. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
    • 1882: The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 207.
  7. (cricket) the status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at
    • The batsmen have crossed, and Dhoni now has the strike.
  8. the primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen

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Terms derived from rent (noun)

[edit] Translations

in bowling
work stoppage
physical force
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[edit] Noun

strike m. inv.

  1. strike (in baseball and ten-pin bowling)
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