(Irregular preterit, past participle: hit).
1. To deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument.
2. To hit against; come into sudden contact with; SYN. strike, impinge on, run into, collide with.
3. To hit the target or goal, as intended.
4. To cause to move by striking.
5. To affect suddenly, usually adversely; SYN. strike.
6. To cause to experience suddenly; SYN. strike, come to.
7. To consume to excess.
1. An act of hitting one thing with another; SYN. hitting, striking.
2. A conspicuous success; SYN. bang, smash, strike.
3. A dose of a narcotic drug.
4. A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
5. A successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)
(engl.) bes. erfolgreicher Musiktitel; (Verkaufs-)Schlager.
(Physik) Aufeinanderprall zweier oder mehrerer Körper. 1. elastischer S.: Die Körper fliegen nach dem Zusammenprall wieder auseinander, ohne daß kinet. Energie in andere Energieformen umgewandelt wird; 2. unelastischer S.: Ein Teil oder alle vor dem S. vorhandene Bewegungsenergie wird in andere Energieformen, z.B. Wärme oder innere Anregungsenergie bei einem Atom, umgewandelt.
(Technik) Die Stelle, an der zwei Bauteile mit Stirnflächen zusammentreffen, z.B. Eisenbahnschienen, Balken, Steine.
(Jagd) Schwanz des Federwilds.
Very popular song.
1. A successful retrieval of data from a cache rather than from the slower hard disk or RAM. See also cache, hard disk, RAM.
2. A successful retrieval of a record matching a query in a database. See also query (definition 1), record.
3. Retrieval of a file from a Web site. Each separate file accessed on a Web page, including HTML documents and graphics, counts as a hit.
4. In computer war and other games, when a character is successfully fired on, attacked, or otherwise taken out.