What is "strike"

Strike \Strike\, v. i. To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields. A mouse . . . struck forth sternly [bodily]. --Piers Plowman. 2. To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows. And fiercely took his trenchant blade in hand, With which he stroke so furious and so fell. --Spenser. Strike now, or else the iron cools. --Shak. 3. To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock. 4. To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes. A deep sound strikes like a rising knell. --Byron. 5. To make an attack; to aim a blow. A puny subject strikes At thy great glory. --Shak. Struck for throne, and striking found his doom. --Tennyson. 6. To touch; to act by appulse. Hinder light but from striking on it [porphyry], and its colors vanish. --Locke. 7. To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night. 8. To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate. Till a dart strike through his liver. --Prov. vii. 23. Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem. --Dryden. 9. To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run. 10. To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy. That the English ships of war should not strike in the Danish seas. --Bp. Burnet. 1

1. To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.

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2. To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.

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3. To steal money. [Old Slang, Eng.] --Nares. To strike at, to aim a blow at. To strike for, to start suddenly on a course for. To strike home, to give a blow which reaches its object, to strike with effect. To strike in.

   1. To enter suddenly.

   2. To disappear from the surface, with internal effects, as an eruptive disease.

   3. To come in suddenly; to interpose; to interrupt. ``I proposed the embassy of Constantinople for Mr. Henshaw, but my Lord Winchelsea struck in.''
      --Evelyn.

   4. To join in after another has begun,as in singing. To strike in with, to conform to; to suit itself to; to side with, to join with at once. ``To assert this is to strike in with the known enemies of God's grace.'' --South. To strike out.

      1. To start; to wander; to make a sudden excursion; as, to strike out into an irregular course of life.

      2. To strike with full force.

      3. (Baseball) To be put out for not hitting the ball during one's turn at the bat.

         To strike up, to commence to play as a musician; to begin to sound, as an instrument. ``Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up.''
         --Shak.

Strike \Strike\, n.

1. The act of striking.

2. An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.

3. A bushel; four pecks. [Prov. Eng.]
   --Tusser.

4. An old measure of four bushels. [Prov. Eng.]

5. Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.

   Three hogsheads of ale of the first strike.
   --Sir W. Scott.

6. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence. [Obs.]

7. The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, usually organized by a labor union, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer.

   Strikes are the insurrections of labor.
   --F. A. Walker.

8. (Iron Working) A puddler's stirrer.

9. (Geol.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip.

10. The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.

11. A sudden finding of rich ore in mining; hence, any sudden success or good fortune, esp. financial.

12. (Bowling, U. S.) The act of leveling all the pins with the first bowl; also, the score thus made. Sometimes called double spare. Throwing a strike entitles the player to add to the score for that frame the total number of pins knocked down in the next two bowls.

13. (Baseball) Any actual or constructive striking at the pitched ball, three of which, if the ball is not hit fairly, cause the batter to be put out; hence, any of various acts or events which are ruled as equivalent to such a striking, as failing to strike at a ball so pitched that the batter should have struck at it. ``It's one, two, three strikes you're out in the old ball game.''
    --[Take me out to the ball game]

14. (Tenpins) Same as Ten-strike. Strike block (Carp.), a plane shorter than a jointer, used for fitting a short joint. --Moxon. Strike of flax, a handful that may be hackled at once. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer. Strike of sugar. (Sugar Making)

    1. The act of emptying the teache, or last boiler, in which the cane juice is exposed to heat, into the coolers.

    2. The quantity of the sirup thus emptied at once.

Strike \Strike\, v. t. [imp. Struck; p. p. Struck, Stricken( Stroock, Strucken, Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly used in the p. p. than stricken.] [OE. striken to strike, proceed, flow, AS. str[=i]can to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. str[=i]hhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off (but perhaps not to L. stringere in sense to draw tight), striga a row, a furrow. Cf. Streak, Stroke.]

1. To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.

   He at Philippi kept His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius.
   --Shak.

2. To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.

3. To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.

   They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts.
   --Ex. xii. 7.

   Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.
   --Byron.

4. To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.

5. To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.

6. To punish; to afflict; to smite.

   To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity.
   --Prov. xvii. 26.

7. To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.

8. To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.

9. To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.

   Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the first view.
   --Atterbury.

   They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
   --Pope.

10. To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind.

    How often has stricken you dumb with his irony!
    --Landor.

11. To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.

    Waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
    --Milton.

12. To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.

13. To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.

    Note: Probably borrowed from the L. f[oe]dus ferrire, to strike a compact, so called because an animal was struck and killed as a sacrifice on such occasions.

14. To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.

15. To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.

16. (Masonry) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.

17. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.

18. To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars. [Slang]

19. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
    --B. Edwards.

20. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.

    Behold, I thought, He will . . . strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
    --2 Kings v. 11.

21. To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle. ``Well struck in years.'' --Shak. To strike an attitude, To strike a balance. See under Attitude, and Balance. To strike a jury (Law), to constitute a special jury ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain number of names from a prepared list of jurors, so as to reduce it to the number of persons required by law. --Burrill. To strike a lead.

    1. (Mining) To find a vein of ore.

    2. Fig.: To find a way to fortune. [Colloq.] To strike a ledger or To strike an account, to balance it. To strike hands with.

       1. To shake hands with.
          --Halliwell.

       2. To make a compact or agreement with; to agree with. To strike off.

          1. To erase from an account; to deduct; as, to strike off the interest of a debt.

          2. (Print.) To impress; to print; as, to strike off a thousand copies of a book.

    3. To separate by a blow or any sudden action; as, to strike off what is superfluous or corrupt. To strike oil, to find petroleum when boring for it; figuratively, to make a lucky hit financially. [Slang, U.S.] To strike one luck, to shake hands with one and wish good luck. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. To strike out.

       1. To produce by collision; to force out, as, to strike out sparks with steel.

       2. To blot out; to efface; to erase. ``To methodize is as necessary as to strike out.''
          --Pope.

       3. To form by a quick effort; to devise; to invent; to contrive, as, to strike out a new plan of finance.

    4. (Baseball) To cause a player to strike out; -- said of the pitcher. See To strike out, under Strike, v. i. To strike sail. See under Sail. To strike up.

       1. To cause to sound; to begin to beat. ``Strike up the drums.''
          --Shak.

       2. To begin to sing or play; as, to strike up a tune.

       3. To raise (as sheet metal), in making diahes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die.

          To strike work, to quit work; to go on a strike.

1580s, "act of striking," from strike (v.). Meaning "concentrated cessation of work by a body of employees" is from 1810. Baseball sense is first recorded 1841, originally meaning any contact with the ball; modern sense developed by 1890s, apparently from foul strike, which counted against the batter, and as hit came to be used for "contact with the ball" this word was left for "a swing and a miss" that counts against the batter; figurative sense of have two strikes against (of a possible three) is from 1938. Bowling sense attested from 1859. Meaning "sudden military attack" is attested from 1942.

Old English strican (past tense strac, past participle stricen) "pass lightly over, stroke, smooth, rub," also "go, move, proceed," from Proto-Germanic *strikan- (cognates: Old Norse strykva "to stroke," Old Frisian strika, Middle Dutch streken, Dutch strijken "to smooth, stroke, rub," Old High German strihhan, German streichen), from PIE root *streig- "to stroke, rub, press" (see strigil). Related to streak and stroke, and perhaps influenced in sense development by cognate Old Norse striuka.\n

\nSense of "to deal a blow" developed by early 14c.; meaning "to collide" is from mid-14c.; that of "to hit with a missile" is from late 14c. Meaning "to cancel or expunge" (as with the stroke of a pen) is attested from late 14c. A Middle English sense is preserved in strike for "go toward." Sense of "come upon, find" is from 1835 (especially in mining, well-digging, etc., hence strike it rich, 1854). Baseball sense is from 1853. To strike a balance is from the sense "balance accounts" (1530s).\n

\nMeaning "refuse to work to force an employer to meet demands" is from 1768, perhaps from notion of striking or "downing" one's tools, or from sailors' practice of striking (lowering) a ship's sails as a symbol of refusal to go to sea (1768), which preserves the verb's original sense of "make level, smooth."

n. 1 (context baseball English) a status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught 2 (context bowling English) the act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame 3 a work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest 4 a blow or application of physical force against something 5 (context finance English) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option. 6 An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel. 7 (context cricket English) the status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at 8 the primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen 9 (context geology English) the compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth. 10 An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle. 11 (context obsolete English) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality. 12 An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence. 13 (context ironworking English) A puddler's stirrer. 14 (context obsolete English) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail. 15 The discovery of a source of something. vb. 1 (lb en transitive sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate. 2 (lb en heading physical) ''To have a sharp or sudden effect.'' 3 #(lb en transitive) To hit. 4 #(lb en transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast. 5 #(lb en intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows. 6 #(lb en transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping. 7 #(lb en intransitive dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded. 8 #(lb en transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds. 9 #(lb en intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows. 10 #(lb en transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke. 11 #(lb en transitive) To cause to ignite by friction. 12 (lb en transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate. 13 (lb en heading personal social) ''To have a sharp or severe effect.'' 14 #(lb en transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite. 15 #(lb en intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action. 16 #(lb en intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way. 17 #(lb en transitive figurative) To impinge upon.

1. n. a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions; "the strike lasted more than a month before it was settled" [syn: work stoppage]

2. an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective; "the strike was scheduled to begin at dawn"

3. a pitch that is in the strike zone and that the batter does not hit; "this pitcher throws more strikes than balls"

4. a gentle blow [syn: rap, tap]

5. a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball; "he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame" [syn: ten-strike]

6. a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang" [syn: hit, smash, smasher, bang]

7. [also: struck]

1. v. hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow" [syn: hit, impinge on, run into, collide with] [ant: miss]

2. deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead"

3. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd" [syn: affect, impress, move]

4. make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target; "The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939"; "We must strike the enemy's oil fields"; "in the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2" [syn: hit]

5. indicate (a certain time) by striking; "The clock struck midnight"; "Just when I entered, the clock struck"

6. affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight" [syn: hit]

7. stop work in order to press demands; "The auto workers are striking for higher wages"; "The employees walked out when their demand for better benefits was not met" [syn: walk out]

8. touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears" [syn: fall, shine]

9. attain; "The horse finally struck a pace" [syn: come to]

10. produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically; "The pianist strikes a middle C"; "strike `z' on the keyboard"; "her comments struck a sour note" [syn: hit]

11. cause to form between electrodes of an arc lamp; "strike an arc"

12. find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake" [syn: fall upon, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain, discover]

13. produce by ignition or a blow; "strike fire from the flintstone"; "strike a match"

14. remove by erasing or crossing out; "Please strike this remark from the record" [syn: expunge, excise]

15. cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me"; "The thought struck terror in our minds"; "They were struck with fear" [syn: hit, come to]

16. drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling" [syn: hit]

17. occupy or take on; "He assumes the lotus position"; "She took her seat on the stage"; "We took our seats in the orchestra"; "She took up her position behind the tree"; "strike a pose" [syn: assume, take, take up]

18. form by stamping, punching, or printing; "strike coins"; "strike a medal" [syn: mint, coin]

19. smooth with a strickle; "strickle the grain in the measure" [syn: strickle]

20. pierce with force; "The bullet struck her thigh"; "The icy wind struck through our coats"

21. arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing; "strike a balance"; "strike a bargain"

22. [also: struck]

Strike may refer to:

Strike were a British electronic dance music band formed in 1994 consisting of Matt Cantor (later of Freestylers), Andy Gardner (later of Plump DJs) and the vocalist Victoria Newton.

A strike is a term used in bowling to indicate that all of the pins have been knocked down with the first ball of a frame. On a bowling score sheet, a strike is symbolized by an X.

Strike is an Australian film directed by George Young. It is considered a lost film.

Strike is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Anne Wafula Strike (born 1969), British wheelchair racer
• Johnny Strike (born 1948), American writer
• Sylvaine Strike, South African actress, writer and theatre director
• Tod Strike, Australian actor

A strike is a unit of volume used for dry measure in the UK.

A strike is a directed physical attack with either a part of the human body or with an inanimate object (such as a weapon) intended to cause blunt trauma or penetrating trauma upon an opponent.
There are many different varieties of strikes. An attack with the hand closed into a fist is called a punch; an attack with the leg or foot is referred to as a kick; and an attack with the head is called a headbutt. There are also other variations employed in martial arts and combat sports.
Buffet or beat refer to repeatedly and violently striking an opponent. Also commonly referred to as a combination, or combo, especially in boxing or fighting video games.

The film depicts a strike in 1903 by the workers of a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia, and their subsequent suppression. The film is most famous for a sequence near the end in which the violent suppression of the strike is cross-cut with footage of cattle being slaughtered, although there are several other points in the movie where animals are used as metaphors for the conditions of various individuals. Another theme in the film is collectivism in opposition to individualism which was viewed as a convention of western film. Collective efforts and collectivization of characters were central to both Strike and Battleship Potemkin.

Strike is a Polish language film produced by a mainly German group, released in 2006 and directed by Volker Schlöndorff. The film is broadly a docudrama. It covers the formation of Solidarity. The action centers around work and labor organizing in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland.

The film follows the life of Agnieszka Kowalska ( Katharina Thalbach) in about three segments covering first her life as a dedicated worker in communist Poland of the early Sixties (DVD chapters 1-4), then following events leading to the Polish 1970 protests (chapters 5-10), and finally the early Eighties including the dedication of the Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970, the Gdańsk Agreement, and Martial law in Poland (chapters 11-15).

The character of Agnieszka is loosely based on at least two women, the crane operator Anna Walentynowicz and the diminutive shipyard nurse Alina Pienkowska with invented or distorted facts.