See hit the ground running on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "hits the ground running",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "hitting the ground running",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "hit the ground running",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "hit the ground running",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hit<,,hit> the ground running"
},
"expansion": "hit the ground running (third-person singular simple present hits the ground running, present participle hitting the ground running, simple past and past participle hit the ground running)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Employers these days look for candidates that can hit the ground running, so that they spend less on training.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To begin an activity immediately and with full commitment."
],
"id": "en-hit_the_ground_running-en-verb--eOQg5U4",
"links": [
[
"begin",
"begin"
],
[
"activity",
"activity"
],
[
"immediately",
"immediately"
],
[
"full",
"full"
],
[
"commitment",
"commitment"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To begin an activity immediately and with full commitment."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "storm out of the blocks"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"word": "direct aan de slag gaan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"word": "se mettre au travail tout de suite"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"word": "se donner à fond sans attendre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"word": "sofort loslegen"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ruszyć z kopyta"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzjatʹ s mesta v karʹjér",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"word": "взять с места в карье́р"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"word": "comenzar a ejecutar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"word": "rivstarta"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-hit the ground running.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/46/En-au-hit_the_ground_running.ogg/En-au-hit_the_ground_running.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/En-au-hit_the_ground_running.ogg"
}
],
"word": "hit the ground running"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "hits the ground running",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "hitting the ground running",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "hit the ground running",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "hit the ground running",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hit<,,hit> the ground running"
},
"expansion": "hit the ground running (third-person singular simple present hits the ground running, present participle hitting the ground running, simple past and past participle hit the ground running)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "storm out of the blocks"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Employers these days look for candidates that can hit the ground running, so that they spend less on training.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To begin an activity immediately and with full commitment."
],
"links": [
[
"begin",
"begin"
],
[
"activity",
"activity"
],
[
"immediately",
"immediately"
],
[
"full",
"full"
],
[
"commitment",
"commitment"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To begin an activity immediately and with full commitment."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-hit the ground running.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/46/En-au-hit_the_ground_running.ogg/En-au-hit_the_ground_running.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/En-au-hit_the_ground_running.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"word": "direct aan de slag gaan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"word": "se mettre au travail tout de suite"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"word": "se donner à fond sans attendre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"word": "sofort loslegen"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ruszyć z kopyta"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzjatʹ s mesta v karʹjér",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"word": "взять с места в карье́р"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"word": "comenzar a ejecutar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "begin an activity immediately and with full commitment",
"word": "rivstarta"
}
],
"word": "hit the ground running"
}
Download raw JSONL data for hit the ground running meaning in All languages combined (3.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.