Толковый словарь английского языка - strike

I. verb (struck; struck; also stricken; striking) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English strīcan to stroke, go; akin to Old High German strīhhan to stroke, Latin stringere to touch lightly, striga, stria furrow Date: before 12th century intransitive verb to take a course ; go , 2. to aim and usually deliver a blow, stroke, or thrust (as with the hand, a weapon, or a tool), to arrive with detrimental effect , to attempt to undermine or harm something as if by a blow , to come into contact forcefully , to delete something, to lower a flag usually in surrender, 6. to become indicated by a clock, bell, or chime , to make known the time by sounding , pierce, penetrate , 8. to engage in battle, to make a military attack, to become ignited , to discover something , 11. to pull on a fishing rod in order to set the hook, to seize the bait, dart, shoot, 13. to take root, germinate, to make an impression, to stop work in order to force an employer to comply with demands, to make a beginning , to thrust oneself forward , to work diligently ; strive, transitive verb 1. to ~ at ; hit, to drive or remove by or as if by a blow, to attack or seize with a sharp blow (as of fangs or claws) , inflict , to produce by or as if by a blow or stroke , to separate by a sharp blow , 2. to haul down ; lower , to dismantle and take away , to ~ the tents of (a camp), to afflict suddenly , 4. to engage in (a battle) ; fight, to make a military attack on, delete, cancel , 6. to penetrate painfully ; pierce, to cause to penetrate , to send down or out , 7. to level (as a measure of grain) by scraping off what is above the rim, to smooth or form (as a mold) with a tool, to indicate by sounding , 9. a. to bring into forceful contact , to shake (hands) in confirming an agreement, to thrust suddenly, to come into contact or collision with , to fall on, to become audible to, 10. to affect with a mental or emotional state or a strong emotion , to affect a person with (a strong emotion) , to cause to become by or as if by a sudden blow , 11. to produce by stamping , b. to produce (as fire) by or as if by striking, to cause to ignite by friction , to make and ratify the terms of , 13. to play or produce by stroking keys or strings , to produce as if by playing an instrument , 14. to hook (a fish) by a sharp pull on the line, to snatch at (a bait), 15. to occur to , to appear to especially as a revelation or as remarkable ; impress , bewitch, to arrive at by or as if by computation , 18. to come to ; attain, to come upon ; discover , to engage in a ~ against (an employer), take on, assume , 21. to place (a plant cutting) in a medium for growth and rooting, to so propagate (a plant), to make one's way along , to cause (an arc) to form (as between electrodes of an arc lamp), to oviposit on or in, see: affect II. noun Date: 15th century a tool for smoothing a surface (as of a mold), an act or instance of striking, 3. a work stoppage by a body of workers to enforce compliance with demands made on an employer, a temporary stoppage of activities in protest against an act or condition, the direction of the line of intersection of a horizontal plane with an uptilted geological stratum, 5. a pull on a fishing rod to ~ a fish, a pull on a line by a fish in striking, a stroke of good luck, 7. a pitched ball that is in the ~ zone or is swung at and is not hit fair, a perfectly thrown ball or pass, disadvantage, handicap, an act or instance of knocking down all the bowling pins with the first bowl, establishment of roots and plant growth, cutaneous myiasis (as of sheep), 12. a military attack, a group of airplanes taking part in such an attack