英语词汇“strikes home”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(of sports events) played alternately on one's own and one's opponents' home grounds

A system offered by some banks allowing a person at home, in an office, etc to gain access to information about his or her own account(s), transfer funds, etc, via the Internet or by telephone

A set of digital equipment for watching DVDs with high-quality reproduction at home

The counties over and into which London has extended, ie Middlesex, Essex, Kent, Surrey (and sometimes also Herts and Sussex)

A cottage with a small piece of land for an industrial worker to grow his or her own food

A person employed by the local authority to help disabled or elderly people with domestic work

The government department broadly responsible for the domestic civil affairs of the United Kingdom as a whole

A statement of the condition of a dwelling-house that is for sale, made available by the seller to prospective buyers

Self-government, such as that claimed by Irish, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists, including a separate parliament to manage internal affairs

Buying products and services by means of telecommunications such as the Internet or cable television

A signal at the beginning of a section of railway line showing whether or not the section is clear

A scheme by which people are permitted to buy, or live rent-free in, semi-derelict buildings and improve them with the help of Government grants, etc

A pointed, usu unanswerable, typically wounding, statement made direct to the person concerned

A person who works from home, esp someone who is linked to an office by computer, and under terms and conditions similar to those of conventional office workers

A residential street or area where traffic-calming measures, the provision of benches, children's play areas, etc are intended to create a safer social environment and encourage pedestrian use

To prepare oneself, eg for a discussion by acquainting oneself with the relevant facts

go or strike home

(of a remark, etc) to impress itself duly on the mind of the person addressed

home and dry

Having arrived or achieved one's aim, etc
Safe, successful, secure

home from home

A place where one feels comfortable and at ease

long home

The grave

make oneself at home

To be as free and unrestrained as in one's own house

not at home

Out of one's house
Not receiving visitors

nothing to write home about (informal)

Not very exciting or attractive

pay home

To strike to the quick
To retaliate

strike /strīk/

transitive verb (pat and pap struck)

To give a blow to or with
To hit, smite
To come into forcible contact with
To deal, deliver, or inflict
To bring forcibly into contact
To impel
To put, send, move, render, or produce by a blow or stroke
To render as if by a blow
To impress
To impress favourably
To afflict
To assail, affect
To affect strongly or suddenly
To mark off
(of a line, path, etc) to draw, describe, give direction to
To arrive at, estimate, compute, fix, settle (as a balance, an average, prices)
To make (a compact or agreement), to ratify
To occur to
To assume (a pose or an attitude)
To lower (eg a sail, flag, tent)
To take down the tents of (strike camp)
To dismantle
To sound by percussion or otherwise
To announce by a bell
To come upon, reach
To stamp
To coin
To print
To delete, cancel
To constitute (orig by cutting down a list)
To broach (Shakespeare)
To fight (a battle) (Shakespeare)
To blast, bewitch
To hook (a fish) by a quick turn of the wrist
To smooth (dialect)
To strickle (dialect)
To stroke (obsolete and Bible)

intransitive verb

To make one's way
To set out
To take a direction or course
To dart, shoot, pass quickly
To penetrate
To jerk the line suddenly in order to impale the hook in the mouth of a fish
To put forth roots
To chance, alight, come by chance
To interpose
To deal or aim a blow, perform a stroke
To sound or be sounded or announced by a bell
To hit out
To seize the bait
To strike something, as a rock, sail, flag
To attempt to hook the ball (rugby)
To touch
To run aground
To surrender
To go on strike
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)

noun

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

ORIGIN: OE strīcan to stroke, go, move

strikˈer noun

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

strikˈing noun

The action of the verb

adjective

That strikes or can strike
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

A force designed and equipped to carry out a strike (military)
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

striking price noun (stock exchange)

A stipulated price at which a holder may exercise his or her put or call option (also exercise or strike price)

be struck off

(of doctors, lawyers, etc) to have one's name removed from the professional register because of misconduct

on strike

Taking part in a strike
(of a batsman) facing the bowling (cricket)

strike a match

To light it by friction or a grazing stroke

strike at

To attempt to strike, aim a blow at

strike back

To return a blow
To backfire, burn within the burner

strike down

To fell
To make ill or cause to die

strike hands

To join or slap together hands in confirmation of agreement

strike home

To strike right to the point aimed at (also figurative)

strike in

To enter suddenly
To interpose
To agree, fit (obsolete)

strike into

To enter upon suddenly, break into

strike it lucky (informal)

To experience good luck

strike it rich (informal)

To make a sudden large financial gain, eg through discovering a mineral deposit, etc

strike off

To erase from an account, deduct
To remove (from a roll, register, etc)
To print
To separate by a blow

strike oil see under oil

strike out

To efface
To bring into light
To direct one's energy and efforts boldly outwards
To swim away
To dismiss or be dismissed by means of three strikes (baseball)
To fail completely (informal, esp N American; strikeˈout noun)
To remove (testimony, an action, etc) from the record (law)
To strike from the shoulder
To form by sudden effort

strike root see under root¹

strike through

To delete with a stroke of the pen

strike up

To begin to beat, sing, or play
To begin (eg an acquaintance)

struck on

Enamoured of

take strike (cricket)

(of a batsman) to prepare to face the bowling

home /hōm/

strike /strīk/