Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word HIT

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Definitions of HIT

1. To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
2. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
3. Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
4. An attack on a location, person or people.
5. A collision of a projectile with the target.
6. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
7. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
8. Very successful.
9. (heading, physical) To strike.
10. (transitive, colloquial) To switch on.
11. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
12. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
13. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
14. (transitive) To affect negatively.
15. (metaphorically) To attack.
16. (heading, games) To make a play.
17. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
18. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
19. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
20. (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
21. (transitive, bodybuilding) to work out
22. (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
23. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
24. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
25. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
26. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
27. (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
28. (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
29. (dialectal) It.
30. Acronym of high-intensity interval training.
31. Acronym of high-intensity training.
32. Abbreviation of hyperspectral imaging technique. or Abbreviation of hyper-spectral imaging technique.
33. Acronym of human intelligence task.
34. Abbreviation of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
35. Abbreviation of herd immunity threshold.

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Examples of Using HIT in a Sentence

• More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.
• Reaching base by other means (such as a base on balls) or advancing further after the hit (such as when a subsequent batter gets a hit) does not increase the player's total bases.
• In baseball, hit by pitch (HBP) is an event in which a batter or his clothing or equipment (other than his bat) is struck directly by a pitch from the pitcher; the batter is called a hit batsman (HB).
• In baseball statistics, a hit (denoted by H), also called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches or passes first base after hitting the ball into fair territory with neither the benefit of an error nor a fielder's choice.
• The ability of a player both to get on base and to hit for power, two important offensive skills, are represented.
• The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat.
• It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players.
• Since a leg theory attack means the batsman is more likely to hit the ball on the leg side, additional fielders on that side of the field can be effective in preventing runs and taking catches.
• the kicks and snares in two house records hit at the same time when both records are played simultaneously.
• The film hit theaters two months after the last episode of the first season of the television series.
• In each level, Bub and Bob must defeat each enemy present by trapping them in bubbles and popping, who turn into bonus items when they hit the ground.
• A cache hit occurs when the requested data can be found in a cache, while a cache miss occurs when it cannot.
• Born in Concord, California, Brubeck was drafted into the US Army, but was spared from combat service when a Red Cross show he had played at became a hit.
• His other hit singles include "Vincent", "Dreidel", "Castles in the Air", and "Wonderful Baby", as well as renditions of Roy Orbison's "Crying" and the Skyliners' "Since I Don't Have You".
• Players stand on a "dance platform" or stage and hit colored arrows laid out in a cross with their feet to musical and visual cues.
• 14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It", the song that gave the band mainstream popularity.
• The hit version, produced by Trevor Horn and featuring the band along with other musicians, entered the UK Top 75 singles chart in November 1983 but did not crack the Top 40 until early January 1984.
• Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924), the jazz standards "Embraceable You" (1928) and "I Got Rhythm" (1930), and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hit "Summertime".
• They are best known for their 1992 hit single "Jump Around", which reached number 3 in their native United States of America, number 6 in Ireland and number 8 in the United Kingdom.
• In baseball, a home run, homerun or homer (abbreviated HR) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home plate safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.
• She is also known for her cover of the Shirley & Company song "Shame, Shame, Shame" which was released in 1992 and became a European hit.
• With the hit ballads "Please, Please, Please" and "Try Me", Brown built a reputation as a dynamic live performer with the Famous Flames and his backing band, sometimes known as the James Brown Band or the James Brown Orchestra.
• The day after Metallica finished the North American leg of the Poor Re-Touring Me Tour in San Diego's Coors Amphitheatre, they hit the studio to start recording a new album of cover versions.
• Although Macau was hit hard by the 1997–98 Asian financial crisis and the early 2000s recession, its economy grew approximately 13.
• One of the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history, McGwire hit 583 home runs during his career, which ranked 5th-most in MLB history at the time of his retirement and currently ranks 11th.

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