From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hit
n 1: (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest
(especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on
Williams' hit"
2: the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated
hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she
finally got a hit" [syn: hit, hitting, striking]
3: 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: hit,
smash, smasher, strike, bang]
4: (physics) a 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, hit]
5: a dose of a narcotic drug
6: a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all
the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
7: a connection made via the internet to another website;
"WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"
v 1: cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"
2: hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a
tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow" [syn: hit,
strike, impinge on, run into, collide with] [ant:
miss]
3: deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument;
"He hit her hard in the face"
4: 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, hit,
arrive at, gain]
5: 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: hit, strike]
6: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit, pip]
7: encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin
last night in a restaurant" [syn: stumble, hit]
8: 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, hit, tally, rack up]
9: 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: hit, strike, come to]
10: 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]
11: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss
ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: murder, slay, hit,
dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove]
12: drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist
on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"
[syn: hit, strike]
13: 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, hit, attain]
14: 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, hit]
15: consume to excess; "hit the bottle"
16: hit the intended target or goal
17: pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to;
"He tries to hit on women in bars"