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Pronunciation

Verb

to strike (third-person singular simple present strikes, present participle striking, simple past struck, past participle struck or stricken)

  1. (transitive) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
    Please strike the last sentence.
  2. (transitive) To hit.
    Strike the door sharply with your foot and see if it comes loose.
  3. (intransitive) To stop working to achieve better working conditions.
    The workers struck for a week before the new contract went through.
  4. (transitive) To impress, seem or appear (to).
    Golf has always struck me as a waste of time.
  5. (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
    We will strike a medal in your honour
  6. (nautical) To haul down, or lower a mast, a flag or cargo, etc.
  7. (nautical) To capitulate: to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
  8. (theatrical) To dismantle and take away the set; (strike the set)
  9. (transitive) Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
    The clock struck one.

See also

Noun

strike (plural strikes)

  1. (baseball) a status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught
  2. (bowling) the act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame
  3. a work stoppage
  4. a blow or application of physical force against something
  5. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
  6. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
    • 1882: The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 207.
  7. (cricket) the status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at
  8. the primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen

Derived terms

Translations

in bowling
  • Finnish: kaato fi(fi)
  • Japanese: ストライク ja(ja) (sutoraiku)
  • Swahili: migomo sw(sw)
work stoppage
  • Japanese: (general) ストライキ ja(ja) (sutoraiki), (law) 同盟罷業 ja(ja) (dōmē-higyō)
  • Korean: 파업 (pa-eop)
  • Malayalam: സമരം (samaram)
  • Norwegian: streik no(no) m.
  • Polish: strajk pl(pl) m.
  • Portuguese: greve f. (3), ataque m. (4)
  • Russian: забастовка ru(ru) (zabastóvka) f.
  • Scottish Gaelic: stailc gd(gd) f.
  • Sotho: seteraeke st(st)
  • Spanish: huelga es(es) f.
  • Swahili: migomo sw(sw)
  • Swedish: strejk sv(sv)
  • Telugu: సమ్మె (samme)
physical force
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