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HITTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of contacting one thing with another
Example:
after three misses she finally got a hit
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("hitting" is a kind of...):
touch; touching (the act of putting two things together with no space between them)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hitting"):
contusion (the action of bruising)
crash; smash (the act of colliding with something)
bunt ((baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat)
fly; fly ball ((baseball) a hit that flies up in the air)
ground ball; groundball; grounder; hopper ((baseball) a hit that travels along the ground)
header ((soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head)
scorcher; screamer (a very hard hit ball)
plunk; plunker ((baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly)
Derivation:
hit (hit with a missile from a weapon)
hit (hit the intended target or goal)
hit (hit against; come into sudden contact with)
hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)
hit (cause to move by striking)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb hit
Context examples:
In other words, the color people were seeing could not be attributed to the light hitting the eye, but to unconscious inferences about the proper color of faces.
(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)
Sometimes it involves direct attacks such as hitting, name calling, teasing or taunting.
(Bullying, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
The electrons that GRaND detected could have been produced by the solar wind hitting the water molecules that Herschel observed, but scientists are also looking into alternative explanations.
(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)
Players whose heads were hit in a collision two or more times in a two-week period were six times more likely to have concussion symptoms than players who did not have any unintentional head trauma, such as a ball hitting the back of the head or a head colliding with another player's knee, according to a new study.
(Soccer Players: More Headers, More Concussions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
At last I rose to go to bed, much to the relief of the sleepy waiter, who had got the fidgets in his legs, and was twisting them, and hitting them, and putting them through all kinds of contortions in his small pantry.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The fluid mechanics of a water droplet hitting a liquid surface are well-known: when the droplet hits the surface, it causes the formation of a cavity, which quickly recoils due to the surface tension of the liquid, resulting in a rising column of liquid.
(What causes the sound of a dripping tap – and how do you stop it?, University of Cambridge)
Meteoroid impacts are common in the deep space neighborhood of Bennu, and it is possible that these small fragments of space rock could be hitting Bennu where OSIRIS-REx is not observing it, shaking loose particles with the momentum of their impact.
(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)
One afternoon, after twenty minutes of desperate efforts to annihilate each other according to set rules that did not permit kicking, striking below the belt, nor hitting when one was down, Cheese-Face, panting for breath and reeling, offered to call it quits.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The old ones and then the young were discussed—their weight, their gameness, their hitting power, and their constitution.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, I may say, nothing of it, except, ah, according to your own reasoning, there is nothing to prevent your getting out, hitting the frost, so to speak, for a matter of ten miles.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
