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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: strike - strike</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="strike"> strike, verb, struck, struck or stricken, or (Obsolete) strook or strucken, striking, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to deal a blow to; hit. Ex. He struck his enemy in anger. The ship struck a rock. The car struck a fence. Lightning struck the barn. (SYN) smite, beat, buffet, slap. <DD> 2. to wound with fangs or sting. Ex. The snake struck the man's hand. <DD> 3. to deal out or forth; give. Ex. He struck a blow in self-defense. <DD> 4. to cause to hit; dash; knock. Ex. The child struck her head against the crib. He struck his fist against the table and called for order. <DD> 5. to make as by stamping or printing. Ex. They will strike a medal in memory of the great victory. <DD> 6. to set on fire by hitting or rubbing. Ex. to strike a spark, to strike a light, to strike a match. <DD> 7. (Figurative.) to have a strong effect on the mind or feelings of; impress. Ex. The plan strikes me as silly. That play strikes my fancy. <DD> 8. to sound. Ex. This clock strikes the hour and the half hour. <DD> 9a. to overcome by death, disease, or suffering. Ex. The town was struck with a flu epidemic. <DD> b. to attack. Ex. The enemy struck the town at dawn. <DD> c. (Figurative:) Ex. They were struck with terror. <DD> 10. (Figurative.) to occur to. Ex. An amusing thought struck her. <DD> 11. to come upon, sometimes suddenly; find. Ex. to strike water, to strike oil. After years of prospecting the old man finally struck gold. We shall strike the main road soon. <DD> 12. to cross; rub; cancel; expunge. Ex. Strike his name from the list. <DD> 13. to take away by a blow. Ex. Strike the weapon from his hand. <DD> 14. (Figurative.) to assume. Ex. He struck an attitude of friendliness. <DD> 15. to send (a root) down or out. Ex. The cuttings have struck roots. <DD> 16a. to get by figuring. Ex. to strike an average. <DD> b. to balance. Ex. to strike a ledger. <DD> 17. (Figurative.) to enter upon; make; decide. Ex. to strike a bargain, to strike a compromise. The employer and the workmen have struck an agreement. <DD> 18a. to lower (as a flag or sail) in a salute or sign of surrender. Ex. The ship struck her flag. <DD> b. to lower (an object) into a ship's hold with a rope and tackle. <DD> 19. to remove the tents of; break (camp). Ex. to strike camp in the morning. <DD> 20a. to remove (a scene) from the stage. Ex. Strike the set. <DD> b. to remove the scenery of (a play). <DD> 21a. to make level with the top edge of a measure. Ex. to strike grain. <DD> b. to level with a strickle. Ex. to strike up sand. <DD> 22. to cause to enter; penetrate. Ex. The wind struck a chill into her bones. <DD> 23. (Figurative.) to fall on; touch; reach; catch. Ex. The sun struck her eyes. A whistle struck his ear. The waving palm trees struck my view. <DD> 24. to go on strike against (an employer). Ex. The pilots struck the country's major international airline (New York Times). <DD> 25a. to harpoon (a whale). <DD> b. to hook (a fish) by pulling or jerking the line. <DD> 26. to alter one's pace into (a faster movement). Ex. The horses struck a canter. <DD> 27. to leave off (work) at the close of the day or at meal times. <DD> 28. (Dialect.) to stroke; smooth. Ex. to strike one's beard. <DD> 29. (Informal.) to make a sudden and pressing demand upon. Ex. to strike a friend for a loan. <DD> 30. (Obsolete.) to fight (a battle). <DD>v.i. 1. to deal or aim a blow. Ex. to strike at a person with a whip. <DD> 2. to tap, rap, or knock. Ex. He struck upon the window. <DD> 3. to wound, or try to wound, prey with the fangs or sting. Ex. The snake struck at my hand. <DD> 4. to attack. Ex. The enemy will strike at dawn. <DD> 5. to use one's weapons; fight. Ex. to strike for freedom. <DD> 6. to be set on fire by hitting or rubbing. Ex. The match wouldn't strike. <DD> 7. to sound with blows; sound. Ex. The clock struck twelve times at noon. <DD> 8. to stop work to get better pay or shorter hours, or to force an employer to meet some other demand. Ex. The coal miners struck when the company refused to improve safety conditions in the mine. <DD> 9. to go; advance. Ex. to strike into a gallop. We walked along the road a mile, then struck across the fields. (SYN) proceed. <DD> 10. to make a stroke with one's arms or legs in swimming or with one's oar in rowing. <DD> 11. to send roots or take root. Ex. The roots of oats strike deep. <DD> 12. to seize the bait and the hook. Ex. The fish are striking well today. <DD> 13. to collide. Ex. The car struck against a wall. The ship struck against a reef. <DD> 14. to fall; catch. Ex. The sunlight struck on his face. A sound struck on his ear. <DD> 15. (Figurative.) to make an impression on the mind or senses. <DD> 16. to move quickly; dart; shoot. <DD> 17. to come; light. Ex. to strike upon a new book. <DD> 18a. to lower a flag, or colors, as a signal of surrender or to honor or salute a dignitary. <DD> b. to raise a white flag in surrendering. <DD>noun 1a. the act or fact of finding rich ore in mining or oil in boring. Ex. He made a rich strike in the Yukon. Drilling crews recently have hit at least ... seven strikes in the same vicinity (Wall Street Journal). <DD> b. (Figurative.) a sudden success. Ex. He made a strike with his first play. <DD> 2a. the act of stopping work in order to get better pay or shorter hours, or to force an employer to meet some other demand. Ex. The workers were home for six weeks during the strike last year. <DD> b. any stoppage of normal activity to protest some action or condition. Ex. a rent strike, a student's strike. <DD> 3. the action of striking. <DD> 4. (Baseball.) the failure of a batter to swing at a pitched ball in the strike zone, to hit a pitched balll at which he swings, or to hit a pitched ball into fair territory under the rules of the game. After two strikes, a batter may hit any number of foul balls, provided they are not caught by any fielder. After three strikes, the batter is out. <DD> 5. in bowling: <DD> a. an upsetting of all the pins with the first ball bowled. Ex. Some proprietors offer baby sitters while mother seeks a strike or a spare on the alley (Wall Street Journal). <DD> b. the score so made. <DD> 6. the action of a taking hold of the bait and the hook. Ex. He got a strike at his first cast in the lake. <DD> 7. (Mining, Geology.) the linear course or direction of a stratum, vein, or other feature or structure of rock; direction with regard to the points of the compass. The strike of a vein is perpendicular to the direction of the dip. <DD> 8. an attack upon a target. Ex. The bombardiers reported clearing weather and "good to excellent" results in both strikes (New York Times). <DD> 9. the number of coins minted at one time. <DD> 10. a metal piece in a doorjamb, into which the latch of a lock fits when the door closes. <DD> 11. a strickle for leveling a measure, as of grain or salt. <DD> 12. (Obsolete.) <DD> a. the degree of strength of ale or beer. <DD> b. the unit proportion of malt in ale or beer. expr. on strike, stopping work to get better pay or shorter hours, or to force an employer to agree to meet some other demand. Ex. Most of the workers voted to go on strike. expr. strike an attitude. See under attitude. expr. strike down, <DD> a. to knock down; overcome; defeat. Ex. Then is sin struck down like an ox (Shakespeare). <DD> b. (Figurative:) Ex. As early as 1936, the [Supreme] Court had begun striking down state criminal convictions based on confessions coerced from defendants (New Yorker). expr. strike off, <DD> a. to take off; cancel; remove. Ex. The first person who flouts her shall be struck off my visiting list (Matilda Betham-Edwards). <DD> b. to print. Ex. to strike off a hundred copies. expr. strike out, <DD> a. to cross out; rub out. Ex. His name was struck out of the list of privy councillors (Macaulay). <DD> b. to fail to hit three pitches in baseball; be called out on strikes. Ex. The batter struck out. <DD> c. to cause to fail to hit three pitches. Ex. The pitcher struck out six men. <DD> d. (Informal, Figurative.) to fail. Ex. He tried to borrow money from several banks but struck out each time. <DD> e. to use arms and legs to move forward. Ex. The swimmer struck out across the lake. <DD> f. to hit violently. Ex. Striking out at the tall reeds by the river with his stick ... (D. Russell). <DD> g. (Figurative.) to go or proceed energetically. Ex. He ... struck out in the direction in which it [the pitfall] lay (Frederick Marryat). Gluck's music ... strikes out on a revolutionary path, the way of free emotion (Saturday Review). <DD> h. (Figurative.) to open up; make for oneself (a path, course, or line). Ex. The men who act must strike out practical lines of action (Woodrow Wilson). expr. strike up, <DD> a. to begin. Ex. to strike up a conversation. The two boys struck up a friendship. <DD> b. to begin or cause to begin to play, sing, or sound. Ex. to strike up a song. Strike up the band. <DD> c. to raise, as by hammering. Ex. to strike up a dent in the metal of a fender. adj. strikeless. </DL> <A NAME="strikealight"> strike-a-light, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a piece of trimmed flint used with pyrites or steel for producing fire from the sparks. Ex. Strike-a-lights have often appeared among prehistoric findings. </DL> <A HREF="strikebo.dic">NEXT</A>