English Dictionary

strike

/stɹaɪk/

noun

(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.

The workers went on strike to demand better wages.

意味（1）

(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.

It was then I knew I had made my third mistake. Yes, three strikes right across the plate, and as I hollered Honey, please wait she was gone.

意味（2）

(bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.

意味（3）

A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.

意味（4）

A blow or application of physical force against something.

Thus hand strikes now include single knuckle strikes, knife hand strikes, finger strikes, ridge hand strikes etc., and leg strikes include front kicks, knee strikes, axe kicks,[…]

意味（5）

(finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.

意味（6）

(historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.

The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel.

意味（7）

(cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.

The batsmen have crossed, and Dhoni now has the strike.

意味（8）

The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.

意味（9）

(geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.

意味（10）

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.

意味（11）

(obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.

[…]our cellarer shall have orders to deliver to thee a butt of sack, a runlet of Malvesie, and three hogsheads of ale of the first strike, yearly—If that will not quench thy thirst, thou must come to court, and become acquainted with my butler.

意味（12）

An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.

意味（13）

(ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.

意味（14）

(obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.

意味（15）

The discovery of a source of something.

The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).

意味（16）

The strike plate of a door.

意味（17）

(fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.

I must admit that my focus was divided, which limited my fishing success. I made a few casts, then arranged my inanimate subjects and took photos. When my indicator went down on my first strike, I cleanly missed the hook up.