transcription, транскрипция: [ hɪt ]
( hits, hitting)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Note: The form 'hit' is used in the present tense and is the past and present participle.
1.
If you hit someone or something, you deliberately touch them with a lot of force, with your hand or an object held in your hand.
Find the exact grip that allows you to hit the ball hard...
Police at the scene said Dr Mahgoub had been hit several times in the head.
= strike
VERB : V n , V n
2.
When one thing hits another, it touches it with a lot of force.
The car had apparently hit a traffic sign before skidding out of control...
= strike
VERB : V n
3.
If a bomb or missile hits its target, it reaches it.
The hospital had been hit with heavy artillery fire.
VERB : V n
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Hit is also a noun.
First a house took a direct hit and then the rocket exploded.
N-COUNT
4.
If something hits a person, place, or thing, it affects them very badly. ( JOURNALISM )
The plan to charge motorists £75 a year to use the motorway is going to hit me hard...
About two-hundred people died in the earthquake which hit northern Peru...
VERB : V n , V n
5.
When a feeling or an idea hits you, it suddenly affects you or comes into your mind.
It hit me that I had a choice...
Then the answer hit me. It had been staring me in the face.
VERB : it V n that , V n
6.
If you hit a particular high or low point on a scale of something such as success or health, you reach it. ( JOURNALISM )
Oil prices hit record levels yesterday.
VERB : V n
7.
If a CD, film, or play is a hit , it is very popular and successful.
The song became a massive hit in 1945.
≠ flop
N-COUNT : oft N n
8.
A hit is a single visit to a website. ( COMPUTING )
Our small company has had 78,000 hits on its Internet pages.
N-COUNT
9.
If someone who is searching for information on the Internet gets a hit , they find a website where there is that information.
N-COUNT
10.
If two people hit it off , they like each other and become friendly as soon as they meet. ( INFORMAL )
They hit it off straight away, Daddy and Walter...
PHRASE : V inflects , pl-n PHR , PHR with n
11.
to hit the headlines: see headline
to hit home: see home
to hit the nail on the head: see nail
to hit the road: see road
to hit the roof: see roof