Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word hit. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in hit.
Definitions and meaning of hit
hit
Pronunciation
enPR: hĭt, IPA(key): /hɪt/
Rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishhitten(“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old Englishhittan(“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norsehitta(“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic*hittijaną(“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European*kh₂eyd-(“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
hit (third-person singular simple presenthits, present participlehitting, simple pasthitor(dialectal, obsolete)hator(rare, dialectal)het, past participlehitor(archaic, rare, dialectal)hitten)
(heading, physical)To strike.
(transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
1922-1927, Frank Harris, My Life and Loves
He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.
1934, Robert E. Howard, The Slugger's Game
I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.
(transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.
1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance
Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.
(intransitive) To strike against something.
If bodies be extension alone, […]how can they move and hit one against another?
(transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
(transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)
FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch.
(transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
(transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
I hit the jackpot.
Antonym:miss
(transitive, colloquial) To switch on.
Antonyms:cut, kill
Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!
(transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
(transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
(heading)To attain, to achieve.
(transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal:
And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.
(intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
1733, Jonathan Swift, On Poetry, a Rhapsody
Millions miss for one that hits.
To guess; to light upon or discover.
(transitive) To affect negatively.
(figuratively) To attack.
(heading, games)To make a play.
(transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
(intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
(backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
(transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
(transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
(transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
Synonyms
(administer a blow):beat, pelt, thump; see also Thesaurus:hit
(kill a person):bump off, do away with, whack; see also Thesaurus:kill
(attack):beset, fall upon, lay into; see also Thesaurus:attack
(have sex with):bang, ram, smash; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
(smoke marijuana):smoke up, toke
Antonyms
(manage to touch in the right place):miss
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
hit (pluralhits)
A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
So he the fam'd Cilician fencer prais'd, / And, at each hit, with wonder seem'd amaz'd.
The hit was very slight.
Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
An attack on a location, person or people.
A collision of a projectile with the target.
In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
(computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
(Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
An approximately correct answer in a test set.
(baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
(colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
Where am I going to get my next hit?
A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
(dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
a happy hit
(backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
(backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
Antonyms
(a punch):miss
(success):flop, turkey
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Adjective
hit (not comparable)
Very successful.
The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishhit(“it”), from Old Englishhit(“it”), from Proto-Germanic*hit(“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European*ḱe-, *ḱey-(“this, here”). Cognate with Dutchhet(“it”). More at it. Note 'it.
Pronoun
hit (subjective and objectivehit, reflexive and intensivehitself, possessive adjective and nounhits)
(dialectal)It.
1922, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, Volume 130:
But how hit was to come about didn't appear.
1998, Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:
Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit slide down the hill hits own way.
Derived terms
hits
hitself
Anagrams
iht, ith
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
hüt, hüüd (Uri)
Etymology
From Old High Germanhiutu, from hiu + tagu, a calque of Latinhodie. Cognate with Germanheute, Dutchheden.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /hɪt/
Adverb
hit
(Alsatian) today
Catalan
Etymology
From Englishhit.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /hit/
Noun
hitm (pluralhits)
hit(something very successful)
Synonym:èxit
References
Chamorro
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*(i-)kita, from Proto-Austronesian*(i-)kita. Doublet of ta.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /hit/
Pronoun
hit
we, us (inclusive)
Usage notes
hit is used either as a subject of an intransitive verb or as an object of a transitive verb, while ta is used as a subject of a transitive verb.
In transitive clauses with an indefinite object, hit can be used as a subject.
See also
References
Donald M. Topping (1973) Chamorro Reference Grammar[5], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Czech
Etymology
From Englishhit.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /hɪt/
Noun
hitm
hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)
(by extension) A success, something popular and successful (especially in the entertainment industry).
Derived terms
feesthit
kersthit
zomerhit
Etymology 2
Shortening of Hitlander(“Shetlander”).
Noun
hitm (pluralhitten, diminutivehitjenorhitsken)
(dated) A Shetland pony.
(dated, regional) Any pony or small horse.
Derived terms
daghit
Hungarian
Etymology
From hisz(“to believe”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ ˈhit]
Rhymes: -it
Noun
hit (pluralhitek)
faith, belief
(archaic) oath, word of honour (e.g. in hitves and hitet tesz)
Declension
Derived terms
(Expressions):
hitet tesz
Further reading
hit in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
Lashi
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /hit/
Adverb
hit
here
Determiner
hit
this
References
Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[6], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Limburgish
Etymology
From Dutchhit, from Englishhit.
Noun
hitf
(slang, Dutch) something popular (book, song, band, country)
Usage notes
Slang. Mainly used when speaking Dutch, rather than in real Limburgish. Overall speaking, Limburgish is more conservative, therefore slaag is more often used.
Inflection
Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
The dative got out of use around 1900. As this is a recent loanword, there is no conjugation for it to be found.
Middle Dutch
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /hɪt/
Pronoun
hit
Alternative form of het
Middle English
Alternative forms
hyt, hitt, hitte, hytte, it, yt, itt, jt, itte
Etymology
From Old Englishhit, from Proto-Germanic*hit(“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European*ḱe-, *ḱey-(“this, here”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /hit/, /it/
Pronoun
hit (accusativehit, genitivehit, his, possessive determinerhit, his)
Third-person singular neuter pronoun:it
Sometimes used in reference to a child or man:he, she
“hit, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 May 2018.
Min Nan
Norwegian Bokmål
Adverb
hit
here (to this place)
References
“hit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /hiːt/
Adverb
hit
here (to this place)
References
“hit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic*hit.
Pronoun
hit
it
Alternative forms
it
Descendants
Middle Dutch: het
Dutch: het (only the pronoun; the definite article is a weakened form of dat)
Limburgish: hèt
Further reading
“hit”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old English
Alternative forms
hitt
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic*hit(“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European*ḱe-, *ḱey-(“this, here”). Cognate with Old Frisianhit(“it”), Old High Germaniz(“it”), Gothic𐌷𐌹𐍄𐌰(hita, “it”). More at hē.