strike /strīk/

1. To give a blow to or with
2. To hit, smite
3. To come into forcible contact with
4. To deal, deliver, or inflict
5. To bring forcibly into contact
6. To impel
7. To put, send, move, render, or produce by a blow or stroke
8. To render as if by a blow
9. To impress
10. To impress favourably
11. To afflict
12. To assail, affect
13. To affect strongly or suddenly
14. To mark off
15. (of a line, path, etc) to draw, describe, give direction to
16. To arrive at, estimate, compute, fix, settle (as a balance, an average, prices)
17. To make (a compact or agreement), to ratify
18. To occur to
19. To assume (a pose or an attitude)
20. To lower (eg a sail, flag, tent)
21. To take down the tents of (strike camp)
22. To dismantle
23. To sound by percussion or otherwise
24. To announce by a bell
25. To come upon, reach
26. To stamp
27. To coin
28. To print
29. To delete, cancel
30. To constitute (orig by cutting down a list)
31. To broach (Shakespeare)
32. To fight (a battle) (Shakespeare)
33. To blast, bewitch
34. To hook (a fish) by a quick turn of the wrist
35. To smooth (dialect)
36. To strickle (dialect)
37. To stroke (obsolete and Bible)

1. To make one's way
2. To set out
3. To take a direction or course
4. To dart, shoot, pass quickly
5. To penetrate
6. To jerk the line suddenly in order to impale the hook in the mouth of a fish
7. To put forth roots
8. To chance, alight, come by chance
9. To interpose
10. To deal or aim a blow, perform a stroke
11. To sound or be sounded or announced by a bell
12. To hit out
13. To seize the bait
14. To strike something, as a rock, sail, flag
15. To attempt to hook the ball (rugby)
16. To touch
17. To run aground
18. To surrender
19. To go on strike
20. To blast, blight (Shakespeare)

—There are numerous archaic and obsolete forms of the past tense (strake, stroke, strook, strooke and (Scot) strack, strak) and of the past participle (strickˈen, strokˈen, strook, strooke, strookˈen and struckˈen)

1. A stroke, striking
2. An attack, esp by aircraft
3. A raid
4. The direction of a horizontal line at right angles to the dip of a bed (geology)
5. A find (as of oil), a stroke of luck
6. A cessation of work, or other obstructive refusal to act normally, as a means of putting pressure on employers, etc
7. The part that receives the bolt of a lock
8. (in tenpin bowling) the knocking down of all the pins with the first ball bowled, or the score resulting from this
9. A ball thrown by the pitcher into the strike zone (baseball)
10. A ball at which the batter swings and misses (baseball)
11. The position of facing the bowling, licence to receive the next delivery (cricket)
12. Blackmail, esp by introducing a bill in the hope of being bought off (old US sl)
13. The quantity of coins, etc made at one time
14. A strickle (dialect)
15. A proportion of malt (cf straik¹)

strikˈer noun

1. Someone who or something that strikes
2. A footpad (Shakespeare)
3. An attacker, esp one whose task is to attempt to score goals (football)
4. The batsman facing the bowling (cricket)

strikˈing noun

The action of the verb

1. That strikes or can strike
2. Impressive, arresting, noticeable

strikˈingly adverb

strikˈingness noun

strikeˈbound adjective

Closed or similarly affected because of a strike

strikeˈbreaker noun

A person who works during a strike or who does the work of a striker, esp if brought in with a view to defeating the strike

strikeˈbreaking noun

strike fault noun (geology)

A fault parallel to the strike

strike force noun

1. A force designed and equipped to carry out a strike (military)
2. A special police unit trained to strike suddenly and forcefully to suppress crime

strikeout see strike out below.

strike pay noun

An allowance paid by a trade union to members on strike

strikeˈ-slip fault noun (geology)

A fault in which movement is parallel to the strike

strike zone noun (baseball)

The area above home plate extending from the batter's knees to the middle of the torso

striking circle noun (hockey)

The area in front of goal from within which the ball must be hit in order to score

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