English Dictionary

strike

/stɹaɪk/

verb

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

The workers decided to strike for better wages.

意味（1）

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

Please strike the last sentence.

意味（2）

(transitive) To hit.

Strike the door sharply with your foot and see if it comes loose. A bullet struck him. The ship struck a reef.

意味（3）

(transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.

And they ſhall take of the blood and ſtrike it on the two ſide poſtes,[…]

意味（4）

(intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.

A hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.

意味（5）

(transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.

We will strike a medal in your honour.

意味（6）

(intransitive, dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.

The ship struck in the night.

意味（7）

(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.

The clock struck twelve. The drums strike up a march.

意味（8）

(intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.

But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!

意味（9）

(transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.

to strike a light

意味（10）

(transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.

to strike a match

意味（11）

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

A tree strikes its roots deep.

意味（12）

(transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.

Alſo to puniſh the iuſt is not good, nor to ſtrike princes for equitie.

意味（13）

(intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.

The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

意味（14）

(intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.

The bank robber struck on the 2nd and 5th of May.

意味（15）

(transitive, figuratively) To impinge upon.

The first thing to strike my eye was a beautiful pagoda. Tragedy struck when his brother was killed in a bush fire.

意味（16）

(intransitive) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.

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 […]

意味（17）

(transitive, dated) To quit (one's job).

It appears that a compositor had been engaged for the Northem Territory Times, and for a considerable time the editor seems to have led a comparatively unruffled existence; till in an evil hour the compositor was smitten with gold fever, and struck work.

意味（18）

(transitive) To impress, seem or appear (to).

Golf has always struck me as a waste of time.

意味（19）

(transitive) To create an impression.

The news struck a sombre chord.

意味（20）

(sports) To score a goal.

Defender Chris Baird struck twice early in the first half to help Fulham move out of the relegation zone and ease the pressure on manager Mark Hughes.

意味（21）

To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.

to strike the mind with surprise; to strike somebody with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror

意味（22）

To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.

The proposed plan strikes me favourably. May the Lord strike down those sinners! I was struck dumb with astonishment.

意味（23）

(intransitive, UK, obsolete, slang) To steal or rob; to take forcibly or fraudulently.

Now we haue well bousd, let vs strike some chete.

Now we haue well bousd, let vs strike some chete. Now we have well drunk, let us steal something.

意味（24）

(slang, archaic) To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.

I must borrow money, / And that some call a striking; …

意味（25）

To touch; to act by appulse.

Let us conſider the red and white colours in Porphyre: Hinder light, but from ſtriking on it, and its Colours vaniſh[…].

意味（26）

(nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)

意味（27）

(by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.

The frigate has struck, sir! We've beaten them, the lily-livers!

意味（28）

To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).

“Strike the tent there!”—was the next order. As I hinted before, this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order to strike the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.

意味（29）

To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).

He struck my chains, and gently spake and smiled:

As they were loosened by that Hermit old,

Mine eyes were of their madness half beguiled,

He struck my chains, and gently spake and smiled: As they were loosened by that Hermit old, Mine eyes were of their madness half beguiled, To answer those kind looks.

意味（30）

(intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.

They struck off along the river.

意味（31）

(intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.

Til a dart ſtrike through his liuer,[…]

意味（32）

(dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.

to strike into reputation; to strike into a run

意味（33）

(intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.

意味（34）

To make and ratify.

to strike a bargain

意味（35）

To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.

意味（36）

(masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.

意味（37）

To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.

My eye struck a strange word in the text. They soon struck the trail.

意味（38）

(sugar-making, obsolete) To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.

In the teache the subject is still further evaporated, till it is judged sufficiently boiled to be removed from the fire. This operation is usually called striking; (i.e.) lading the liquor, now exceedingly thick, into the cooler.

意味（39）

To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.

[…]Beholde, I thought, He will[…]ſtrike his hand ouer the place, and recouer the leper.

意味（40）

(obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.

[…]Well ſtrooke in yeares,[…]

意味（41）

To balance (a ledger or account).

意味（42）

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

Howard Franklin and Henry Madison strike gold on the Fortymile River...