Crossword clues for striking
striking
- Deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- A act of hitting one thing with another
- Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- Stop work in order to press demands
- Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- Attain
- Catching out
- Lovely out?
- Impressive, refusing to work
- Impressive hitting
- Handsome knight usurps youth's place
- Conspicuously impressive
- Cause to form between electrodes of an arc lamp
- Pierce with force
- Smooth with a strickle
- Form by stamping, punching, or printing
- Hit against
- Occupy or take on, as of a position or posture
- Cause to experience suddenly
- Remove by erasing or crossing out
- Produce by ignition or a blow
- Find unexpectedly
- Arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
- Come into sudden contact with
- Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically
- The physical coming together of two or more things
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Striking \Strik"ing\, a.
Affecting with strong emotions; surprising; forcible;
impressive; very noticeable; as, a striking representation or
image; a striking resemblance. ``A striking fact.''
--De
Quincey. -- Strik"ing*ly, adv. -- Strik"ing*ness, n.
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.]
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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. To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.
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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. To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.
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To punish; to afflict; to smite.
To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity.
--Prov. xvii. 26. 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.
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.
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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.
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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!
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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. To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.
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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.
To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.
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.
(Masonry) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.
To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars. [Slang]
To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
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To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
Behold, I thought, He will . . . strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
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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.
(Mining) To find a vein of ore.
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Fig.: To find a way to fortune. [Colloq.] To strike a ledger or To strike an account, to balance it. To strike hands with.
To shake hands with.
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To make a compact or agreement with; to agree with. To strike off.
To erase from an account; to deduct; as, to strike off the interest of a debt.
(Print.) To impress; to print; as, to strike off a thousand copies of a book.
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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.
To produce by collision; to force out, as, to strike out sparks with steel.
To blot out; to efface; to erase. ``To methodize is as necessary as to strike out.''
--Pope.To form by a quick effort; to devise; to invent; to contrive, as, to strike out a new plan of finance.
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(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.
To cause to sound; to begin to beat. ``Strike up the drums.''
--Shak.To begin to sing or play; as, to strike up a tune.
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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.
Striking \Strik"ing\, a. & n. from Strike, v. Striking distance, the distance through which an object can be reached by striking; the distance at which a force is effective when directed to a particular object. Striking plate.
The plate against which the latch of a door lock strikes as the door is closed.
A part of the centering of an arch, which is driven back to loosen the centering in striking it.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "that strikes," present participle adjective from strike (v.). Meaning "producing a vivid impression" id from 1752, from the verb in the sense of "to catch the fancy of" (1590s). Related: Strikingly.
Wiktionary
Making a strong impression. n. The act by which something strikes or is struck. v
(present participle of strike English)
WordNet
adj. sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect; "a dramatic sunset"; "a dramatic pause"; "a spectacular display of northern lights"; "it was a spectacular play"; "his striking good looks always created a sensation" [syn: dramatic, spectacular]
having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance between parent and child" [syn: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "striking".
There is no more striking proof of the universal adoration paid the stars and constellations, than the arrangement of the Hebrew camp in the Desert, and the allegory in regard to the twelve Tribes of Israel, ascribed in the Hebrew legends to Jacob.
Armed with poison-tipped spears, and using the claws of their hands and feet, they attacked the matriarch as allosaurs once had, striking and retreating.
Hooker, analogous and striking facts are given in regard to the plants of that large island.
The prognosis in traumatic anosmia is generally bad, although there is a record of a man who fell while working on a wharf, striking his head and producing anosmia with partial loss of hearing and sight, and who for several weeks neither smelt nor tasted, but gradually recovered.
I have seen the goats on Mount Pentelicus scatter at the approach of a stranger, climb to the sharp points of projecting rocks, and attitudinize in the most self-conscious manner, striking at once those picturesque postures against the sky with which Oriental pictures have made us and them familiar.
But there was nevertheless a striking coincidence in their ideas, readily explained by attributing it to a foreign influence.
Iraq is likely to acquire intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of striking the United States within the next fifteen years.
They were followed by the Blesser of Sorbold, Nielash Mousa, the only one in the robes of his country, colorful and striking in contrast to the pale holy garments of Roland.
Maybe a thirty-second blivet announcing a rally to support striking miners, okay.
Presently one who was almost brainless, acting upon the impulse of suggestion, leaped in among the fighters, striking and biting at Number Thirteen.
Everything had seemed to blur for Bree after that until one striking moment when the Justice of the Peace asked Vinnie and her to face each other.
Garth Breise tumbled over backward, plummeting down the side of the tower, striking one cross pole and launching into a somersaulting fall.
Calabria wheedling, remonstrating, cajoling and patronizing the new master by turns, now for his misguided notions of fairness in dealing with the striking miners, now for the uses of influence in getting ahead, breaking off for a highly theatrical interlude of mugging and arson and here came the playful glissando again as new comic possibilities emerged in the parade of petty thieves, rumpots, fugitives from wives and creditors and a brace of Chippewa Indians being cursorily questioned, pummeled, browbeaten, paid and fleeced as recruits for the Union army by the mine manager in his time away from raising stores of vermifuges, decorative sabres, trusses and mule feed cut with sand in the patriotic cause.
Back at the walled garden near the house, Ana turned to survey the gently sloping terrain down to the jungle, and was hit by its unlikely but striking similarity to another would-be paradise, the remnants of which she had once visited, a hortus conclusus whose inhabitants had tried to keep the outside world at bay while an ideal society was being constructed within the boundaries.
La Pedrera with a striking personality which some have linked with European expressionism and others have defined as an anticipation of surrealism.