meaning of hit

1. It.
2. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.
3. of Hit
4. To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).
5. To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.
6. To guess; to light upon or discover.
7. To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
8. To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.
9. To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck.
10. A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
11. A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit.
12. A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
13. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
14. A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.
15. hit 1. cache hit. 2. Web> A request to a web server from a web browser or other client e. g. a robot. The number of hits on a server may be important for determining advertising revenue. In the course of loading a single web page, a browser may hit a web server many times e. g. to retrieve the page itself and each image on the page. In contrast, caching by browsers and web proxies reduces the number of hits on the server because some requests are satisfied from the cache. 3. To press and release a key on the keyboard. Some prefer the less aggressive "tap".
16. baseball a successful stroke in an athletic contest especially in baseball; "he came all the way around on Williams ">hit"

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