strike

Please strike the last sentence.

(transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.

To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.

Strike the door sharply with your foot and see if it comes loose.  A bullet struck him.  The ship struck a reef.

[…]he at Philippi kept / His ſword e’ne like a dancer, while I ſtrooke / The leane and wrinkled Caſſius,[…]

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene xi], page 356, column 1:

The 0812 Huddersfield-Sheffield service struck the stabiliser leg of a lorry being used to take away portable toilets after local repair work.

2021 December 29, “Network News: RAIB: tighten up supervision after 27mph train sideswipe incident”, in RAIL, number 947, page 8:

To have a sharp or sudden physical effect, as from a blow.

To have a sharp or sudden physical effect, as from a blow.

And they ſhall take of the blood and ſtrike it on the two ſide poſtes,[…]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 12:7, column 2:

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

1812, Lord Byron, “Canto II”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza LXXV, page 102:

(transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.

To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.

A hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.

Nay when? ſtrike now, or elſe the Iron cooles.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 168, column 2:

(intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.

To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.

We will strike a medal in your honour.

[I]n practice, small deformations will occur in the shell on striking the shuttering, or... alternatively, some small deformations are due to slightly imperfect placing of the original formwork.

1977, Jaques Heyman, Equilibrium of Shell Structures, Clarendon Press, Oxford, page 107:

(transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.

The ship struck in the night.

(intransitive, dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.

To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.

The clock struck twelve.  The drums strike up a march.

(transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.

But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!

1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XXI, page 13:

(intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.

To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.

to strike a light

And waving wide her mirtle wand / She ſtrikes a univerſall Peace through Sea and Land.

1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, The Hymn, stanza III, page 3:

And waving wide her myrtle wand, / She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.

(transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.

To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.

to strike a match

(transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.

A tree strikes its roots deep.

(transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.

To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.

Alſo to puniſh the iuſt is not good, nor to ſtrike princes for equitie.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 17:26, column 2:

To have a sharp or severe effect on a more abstract level.

(transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.

To have a sharp or severe effect on a more abstract level.

The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, “The Shadow of the Bat”, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 6:

(intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.

To carry out a violent or illegal action.

The bank robber struck on the 2nd and 5th of May.

(intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.

To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.

The first thing to strike my eye was a beautiful pagoda.  Tragedy struck when his brother was killed in a bush fire.

In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts,[…], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 1:

(transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.

Golf has always struck me as a waste of time.

I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.

1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Palace of Green Porcelain”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 163:

(transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).

To impress, seem or appear to (a person).

The news struck a sombre chord.

The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.

1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:

Defender Chris Baird struck twice early in the first half to help Fulham move out of the relegation zone and ease the pressure on manager Mark Hughes.

2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0-2 Fulham”, in BBC:

to strike the mind with surprise;  to strike somebody with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror

In like manner the writings of mere men[…]strike and surprise us most upon our first perusal of them[…].

1734, Francis Atterbury, “A Sermon Preached at the Rolls, December 24, 1710: The Baptist's Message to Jesus, and Jesus's Answer Explained”, in Sermons on Several Occasions, new edition, volume I, published from the originals by Thomas Moore, London; reprinted in Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions, volume II, London, 1820, page 25:

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, / Born where Heav'n's influence scarce can penetrate. / In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, / They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

1734, Alexander Pope, An Epistle To The Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Cobham; reprinted in Henry W. Boynton, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (The Cambridge Edition of the Poets), Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903, page 159, lines 141–144:

To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.

The proposed plan strikes me favourably.

I was struck dumb with astonishment.

To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.

Now we haue well bousd, let vs strike some chete.

1567, Thomas Harman, “The vpright Coſe cateth to the Roge. [The Upright Man speaketh to the Rogue.]”, in 'A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, vulgarly called vagabonds'; reprinted in Charles Hindley, editor, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursetors, Vulgarly called Vagabonds, London: Reeves and Turner, 1871, page 119:

Now we have well drunk, let us steal something.

Hee being thus duſted with meale, intreated the meale man to wipe it out of his necke, and ſtoopte downe his head: the meale man laughing to ſee him ſo rayed and whited, was willing to ſhake off the meal, and the whilſt, while hee was buſie about that, the Nippe had ſtroken the purſe and done his feate, and both courteouſly thanked the meale man and cloſely / went away with his purchaſe.

Greene, Robert (2017) “A discourse, or rather discovery of the Nip and the Foist, laying open the nature of the Cutpurse and Pick-pocket.”, in Ex-Classics Project, retrieved 2019-12-12, The Complete Cony-Catching by Robert Greene

He being thus dusted with meal, entreated the meal-man to wipe it out of his neck, and stooped down his head, the meal-man laughing to see him so arrayed and whited, was willing to shake off the meal, and while he was busy about that, the nip had stroken the purse and done his feat, and both courteously thanked the meal-man and closely went away with his purchase.

(intransitive, UK, obsolete, slang) To steal or rob; to take forcibly or fraudulently.

To steal or rob; to take forcibly or fraudulently.

I must borrow money, / And that some call a striking; [...]

1655, James Shirley, 'The Gentleman of Venice'; reprinted in William Gifford, Alexander Dyce, editors, 'The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley', volume 5, London: John Murray, 1833, page 6:

(slang, archaic) To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.

To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.

Let us conſider the red and white colours in Porphyre: Hinder light, but from ſtriking on it, and its Colours vaniſh[…].

1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “Some Farther Considerations Concerning Our Simple Ideas”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book II, § 19, page 58:

(transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.

(nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)

To take down, especially in the following contexts.

To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)

The frigate has struck, sir! We've beaten them, the lily-livers!

He [King Charles II] ſent him [the Earl of Essex] Embaſſador to Denmark, where his behaviour in the affair of the flag gained him much reputation:[…]Lord Eſſex’s firſt buſineſs was to juſtify his behaviour in refuſing to ſtrike.[…]And he found very good materials to juſtify his conduct; ſince by formal treaties it had been expreſſly ſtipulated, that the Engliſh ſhips of war ſhould not ſtrike in the Daniſh ſeas.

a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, “Book III. Of the Rest of King Charles II’s Reign, from the Year 1673 to the Year 1685, in which He Died.”, in [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume I, London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC, pages 396–397:

(by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.

To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.

Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of them struck […]

1889, New York (State). Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Statistics, Annual Report (part 2, page 127)

(intransitive, by extension) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.

To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.

It appears that a compositor had been engaged for the Northem Territory Times, and for a considerable time the editor seems to have led a comparatively unruffled existence; till in an evil hour the compositor was smitten with gold fever, and struck work.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 227:

(transitive, dated, by extension) To quit (one's job).

“Strike the tent there!”—was the next order. As I hinted before, this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order to strike the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Merry Christmas”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 113:

The crew struck the set with a ferocity hitherto unseen, an army more valiant in retreat than advance.

1979, Texas Monthly, volume 7, number 8, page 109:

To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).

To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).

He struck my chains, and gently spake and smiled:
As they were loosened by that Hermit old,
Mine eyes were of their madness half beguiled,
To answer those kind looks.

1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 217:

To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).

To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).

They struck off along the river.

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

(intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.

Til a dart ſtrike through his liuer,[…]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 7:23, column 2:

For if either the Story move us, or the Actor help the lameneſs of it with his performance, or now and then a glittering beam of wit or paſſion ſtrike through the obſcurity of the Poem, any of theſe are ſufficient to effect a preſent liking[…].

1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 11:

(intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.

To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.

to strike into reputation;  to strike into a run

(dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.

To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.

(intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.

To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.

to strike a bargain, to strike a great bargain

to strike a deal

to strike an agreement

to strike a compromise

to strike a pact

to strike a truce, to strike an uneasy truce

to strike an accord

to strike an alliance

to strike a ceasefire

to strike an armistice

to strike a balance, to strike a delicate balance between

(transitive) To make and ratify; to reach; to find.

to strike gold

Howard Franklin and Henry Madison strike gold on the Fortymile River...

1998, “A Gold Rush Timeline”, in The Brasher Bulletin, volume 10, number 2, page 5:

To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.

To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.

(masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.

My eye struck a strange word in the text.  They soon struck the trail.

In the teache the subject is still further evaporated, till it is judged sufficiently boiled to be removed from the fire. This operation is usually called striking; (i.e.) lading the liquor, now exceedingly thick, into the cooler.

1793, Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, volume II, London: John Stockdale; republished in englarged and corrected edition, volume III, Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1806, page 46:

(sugar-making, obsolete) To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.

To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.

[…]Beholde, I thought, He will[…]ſtrike his hand ouer the place, and recouer the leper.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 5:11, columns 2–1:

[…]Well ſtrooke in yeares,[…]

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 174, column 1:

(obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.

To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.

en-verb

strike (third-person singular simple present strikes, present participle striking, simple past struck or (see usage notes) striked or (all obsolete) strook or stroke or strake, past participle struck or (see usage notes) stricken or (both obsolete) strucken or strook)

strikes (present singular third-person)
striking (participle present)
struck (past)
striked (past)
strook (obsolete past)
stroke (obsolete past)
strake (obsolete past)
struck (obsolete participle past)
stricken (obsolete participle past)
strucken (obsolete participle past)
strook (obsolete participle past)

lightning does not strike twice in the same place

lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place

lightning never strikes twice in the same place

→ German: streiken

iskeä

transitive: to give, as a blow; to give force to

удрям

intransitive: to deliver a quick blow or thrust

пронизвам

to thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate

iskeä

to carry out a violent or illegal action

идва ми на ум

to make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion

yllättää

to affect by a sudden impression or impulse

vipata

slang, archaic: to borrow money from; to make a demand upon

lävistää

to pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate

kiinnittyä

of oysters: to become attached to something

tasata

to level measure with a straight instrument

iskeä

masonry: to cut off even with the face of the wall

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”).
Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen, Danish stryge, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva.

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Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”)


strike

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.

1996, Lyle Lovett, “Her First Mistake”, in The Road to Ensenada:

(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.

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

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

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,[…]

1990, Chris Traish, Leigh Olsson, An Overview of Martial Arts, page 14:

[…] and they could hear the rough sound, could hear too the first strikes of rain as though called down by the music.

He's got machine guns and hatchets and swords / And some missiles and foods with trans-fats / He will unleash mass destruction, you're dead / You just got smashed... by the ¶ Attack of the Wrath of the / War of the Death of the / Strike of the Sword of the / Blood... of the Beast

2008, Lich King (band), “Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast”, in Toxic Zombie Onslaught:

A blow or application of physical force against something.

air strike; first strike

(military, by extension) An attack, not necessarily physical.

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

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

1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 207:

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

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

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

The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.

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

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.

a strike of malt; a strike of coin

(obsolete) Fullness of measure; the whole amount produced at one time.

[…]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.

1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter X, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 266–267:

(obsolete, by extension) Excellence; quality.

An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.

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

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).

2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

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.

2014, Michael Gorman, Effective Stillwater Fly Fishing, page 87:

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

→ Danish: strike

→ Dutch: strike

→ French: strike

→ German: Strike

→ Italian: strike

→ Japanese: ストライク (sutoraiku)

→ Korean: 스트라이크 (seuteuraikeu)

→ Portuguese: strike

→ Russian: страйк (strajk)

→ Spanish: strike

→ Swedish: strike

→ Danish: strejke

→ Esperanto: striko

→ Hungarian: sztrájk

→ Japanese: ストライキ (sutoraiki)

desctree

→ German: Streik
→ Kashubian: sztrajk
→ Macedonian: штрајк (štrajk)
→ Serbo-Croatian: štrȁjk /штра̏јк
→ Slovak: štrajk

→ Polish: strajk
→ Belarusian: страйк (strajk)
→ Ukrainian: страйк (strajk)

→ Swedish: strejk

→ Welsh: streic


strike

strike (in baseball and ten-pin bowling)


strike

(bowling) strike (the act of knocking down all pins)

(baseball) strike (the act of missing a swing at the ball)

Unadapted borrowing from English strike.


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¡Tres strikes y estás fuera!