Meaning

21 senses
  1. 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.

    Strike

    страйкstrajk

    страйкstrajk

  2. The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.

    a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball

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

    After an eleven-week strike, it was management that finally blinked.

    Streik

    забасто́вкаzabastóvka, ста́чкаstáčka

    страйкstrajk, забасто́вкаzabastóvka

  4. A blow or application of physical force against something.

    Schlag

    уда́рudár

    уда́рudár

    a gentle blow

  5. (broadly)An attack, not necessarily physical.

    air strike; first strike

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

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

  8. The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.

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

  9. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.

  10. The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth or another solid celestial body.

  11. 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.

  12. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.

Examples

910 sentences
  1. The tree was struck by lightning.

    В дерево вдарила блискавка. — rmdas

    ruВ дерево ударила молния. — Hellerick

    deDer Baum ist vom Blitz getroffen worden. — Sudajaengi

  2. The bus drivers are on strike today.

    Сьогодні страйкують водії автобусів. — rozmaita

    ruВодители автобусов сегодня бастуют. — corvard

    deDie Busfahrer streiken heute. — MUIRIEL

  3. Are the bus drivers going to go on strike?

    Водії автобусів розпочнуть страйк? — deniko

  4. The tree in front of the library was struck by lightning.

    У дерево перед бібліотекало вдарила блискавка. — deniko

    ruВ дерево перед библиотекой ударила молния. — Selena777

    deIn den Baum vor der Bibliothek hat der Blitz eingeschlagen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. The committee decided to call off the strike.

    Комітет вирішив відкликати страйк. — deniko

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
in baseball:
work stoppage:
physical blow:
Русский
By meaning 3
in bowling:
work stoppage:
physical blow:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
in bowling:
work stoppage:
physical blow:

Origin

From Middle English stryken, from Old English strīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan,

From Middle English stryken, from Old English strīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan, from Proto-Germanic *strīkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”).

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Forms

plural: strikes
Singularstrike
Pluralstrikes

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball:ten-strike
  • a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions:work stoppage
  • a gentle blow:raptap
  • a conspicuous success:hitsmashsmasherbang

Antonyms

4 antonyms

Word family

66 related words

Collocations

9 patterns
  • struck by lightning
  • was struck by
  • are on strike
  • struck a match
  • go on strike
  • lightning struck
  • hunger strike
  • get struck by
  • house was struck

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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