Crossword clues for hitting
hitting
- With 27-Across, record-setting achievement of 62-Across
- Cause to experience suddenly
- Consume to excess
- Gain points
- Encounter by chance
- Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically
- Kill intentionally and with premeditation
- Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
- Reach a destination, either real or abstract
- Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hitting \hitting\ n. [vb. n. from hit, v.] The act of striking one thing against another; as, repeated hitting raised a large bruise
Syn: hit, striking.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object. 2 The skill of hitting. vb. (present participle of hit English)
WordNet
See hit
n. (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" [syn: hitting, striking]
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: smash, smasher, strike, bang]
(physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together; "the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction" [syn: collision]
a dose of a narcotic drug
a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"
[also: hitting]
v. cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"
hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow" [syn: strike, impinge on, run into, collide with] [ant: miss]
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: strike]
deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"
reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" [syn: reach, make, attain, arrive at, gain]
reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour" [syn: reach, attain]
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: strike, come to]
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: strike]
hit the intended target or goal
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: strike]
encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" [syn: stumble]
gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" [syn: score, tally, rack up]
consume to excess; "hit the bottle"
kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: murder, slay, dispatch, bump off, polish off, remove]
drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling" [syn: strike]
pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars"
[also: hitting]
Usage examples of "hitting".
Canisters of napalm hitting the treetops, and jellied gasoline trickling down like stalactites, and see fifteen or twenty North Vietnamese soldiers jump up from underneath it and try to escape.
Some days, like thirteen hundred rounds impacting on the area, twelve hundred rounds, a thousand rounds hitting different areas of the base.
The mortars were coming in from the back, and they were hitting the compound.
It was loud and I could hear the shrapnel hitting the grass and trees around me.
Ennet House in Enfield and be hard-pressed to spit in any direction without hitting some AA venue nearby.
The next time he came to the plate he was still so furious with himself that he insisted on hitting with the crooked bat.
Who tried hitting from the wrong side of the plate for the first time in his life in Double-A ball?
To reduce his strikeouts, he shortened his swing, and traded the possibility of hitting a home run for a greater likelihood of simply putting the ball in play.
Once he decided that hitting was the most important tool and everything else was secondary, Alderson set about implementing throughout the organization, with Marine Corps rigor, a uniform approach to hitting.
To anyone with the natural gifts to become a professional baseball player, hitting was less a physical than a mental skill.
Or, at any rate, the aspects of hitting that could be taught were mental.
To calculate what Mike Schmidt would hit if he hit only against the Chicago Cubs, you needed to understand how hitting in Wrigley Field differed from hitting in other parks.
The odds depend on who is pitching and who is hitting, of course, but they also depend on the minute events within the event.
The top half is hitting with discipline, and avoiding swinging at bad pitches.
Jeff Cirillo hits a single and, with only the tiniest prompting, starts to bitch and moan about hitting ninth in the Seattle lineup.