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Definitions and meaning of strike

strike

Etymology

From Middle English stryken, from Old English strīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan, from Proto-Germanic *strīkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”).

Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen, Danish stryge, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /stɹaɪk/
• (US, emphatic, baseball, before one, two, or especially three) IPA^(key): /stiː.ɹaɪk/, [stiː.ɹ̠ʌɪ̯k(ʰ)]
• Rhymes: -aɪk

Verb

strike (third-person singular simple present strikes, present participle striking, simple past struck or (see usage notes) striked or (all obsolete) strook or stroke or strake, past participle struck or (see usage notes) stricken or (both obsolete) strucken or strook)

1. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.

2. To have a sharp or sudden physical effect, as from a blow.
   1. (transitive) To hit.
   2. (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
   3. (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
   4. (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
   5. (intransitive, dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.

   6. (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.

   7. (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
   8. (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
   9. (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.

3. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.

4. To have a sharp or severe effect on a more abstract level.
   1. (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
   2. (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
   3. (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.

   4. (transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.
   5. (transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).
   6. (transitive) To create an impression.
   7. (sports) To score a goal.
   8. To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
   9. To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.

   10. (intransitive, UK, obsolete, slang) To steal or rob; to take forcibly or fraudulently.
   11. (slang, archaic) To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.
5. To touch; to act by appulse.
6. (transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
   1. (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
   2. (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
   3. (intransitive, by extension) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.

      Synonym: strike work

      • 1889, New York (State). Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Statistics, Annual Report (part 2, page 127)

        Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of them struck […]

   4. (transitive, dated, by extension) To quit (one's job).
   5. To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
   6. To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
7. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
8. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
9. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.

10. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
12. (transitive) To make and ratify; to reach; to find.

    to strike a bargain, to strike a great bargain

    to strike a deal

    to strike an agreement

    to strike a compromise

    to strike a pact

    to strike a truce, to strike an uneasy truce

    to strike an accord

    to strike an alliance

    to strike a ceasefire

    to strike an armistice

    to strike a balance, to strike a delicate balance between

13. To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.

    to strike gold
14. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
15. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
16. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.

17. (sugar-making, obsolete) To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.
18. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
19. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
20. To balance (a ledger or account).

Usage notes

• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: "In everyday English, people usually say hit rather than strike."
• The simple past is almost always struck, but it is often avoided by using the verb hit (even more than in other tenses) or other verbs and expressions. This is especially true in the sense of stopped working in protest, about which many native speakers have strong opinions concerning the use or appropriateness of struck or striked. These strong opinions and criticism of different usage by other people are partly due to regional differences but mostly due to the verb actually being essentially defective (not used in all tenses) in this sense, although apparently no dictionary except Wiktionary mentions this. The expressions workers went on strike and workers were on strike are much more common than workers struck and workers striked, which sound odd, dated, or wrong to many native speakers.
• The past participle is usually struck (e.g. He'd struck it rich, or When the clock had struck twelve, etc.). The form stricken is significantly rarer. However, it is still found in the sense of "to delete, cross out", as in The Court has stricken the statement from the record. Moreover, it is used in the passive in the sense of "afflicted", as in The city was stricken with/by disease. In other contexts it is literary or archaic.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → German: streiken

Translations

Noun

strike (plural strikes)

2. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
3. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
5. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.

   Synonym: walkout

   Antonyms: industrial peace, lockout, non-strike, nonstrike

   Hypernyms: labor action, industrial action

   Coordinate terms: go-slow, slowdown, stayaway, stayout, work-to-rule

6. A blow or application of physical force against something.
7. (military, by extension) An attack, not necessarily physical.

8. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
9. (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
10. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.

11. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
12. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth or another solid celestial body.
13. 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.
14. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; the whole amount produced at one time.

15. (obsolete, by extension) Excellence; quality.
16. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
17. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
18. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
19. The discovery of a source of something.
20. The strike plate of a door.
21. (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
22. (philately) A cancellation postmark.

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References

Further reading

• “strike”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1904) “strike”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume VII, [London: […] Neill and Co.] […], →OCLC, page 12.

Anagrams

• Kister, kiters, trikes

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʁajk/

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

1. (bowling) a strike

Derived terms

• striker

Related terms

• spare

Italian

Noun

strike m (invariable)

1. strike (in baseball and ten-pin bowling)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English strike.

Pronunciation

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

1. (bowling) strike (the act of knocking down all pins)
2. (baseball) strike (the act of missing a swing at the ball)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English strike.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɾaik/ [ˈst̪ɾai̯k], /esˈtɾaik/ [esˈt̪ɾai̯k]
• Rhymes: -aik

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

1. (baseball) strike

   ¡Tres strikes y estás fuera! ― Three strikes, you're out!

2. (bowling) strike

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Source: wiktionary.org