hit

«hit» in Mova's school dictionary: To touch someone or something hard and fast with your… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (hit, hits, hit, hitting); noun (a hit, hits)

meaning for a pupil

1) To touch someone or something hard and fast with your hand, a bat or an object. tree →

2) To bump into something by accident: «The car hit a tree». tree →

3) A noun: a hit or blow. tree →

4) A noun: a very popular song, film or thing: «The song was a big hit». tree →

5) To reach: hit a target, hit 100. tree →

6) Of something bad: to affect suddenly: «The storm hit the town». tree →

7) In some dialects, hit is an old word used instead of it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In behaviour lessons: hitting hurts and is never okay, even when angry — use words and walk away, tell an adult if someone hits you. In sport: hit the ball with a bat or racket; in cricket and baseball «a hit». In safety: a car can hit you, so stop, look and listen. In stories: the storm hit, the idea hit her. Phrases: hit the ball, hit back, a big hit, hit the target, hit it off (get on well), hit the road (leave), hit on an idea.

examples

• It's never okay to hit someone. tree →
• She hit the ball over the fence. tree →
• The car almost hit the cyclist. tree →
• The song was a big hit. tree →
• He hit his head on the shelf. tree →
• The arrow hit the target. tree →
• We hit it off on the first day and became friends. tree →
• The idea hit me in the middle of the night. tree →
• Hit's des like I tell you. tree →

note

Irregular, the same in all forms: hit, hit, hit (yesterday I hit — not «hitted»). Double t: hitting. Telling an adult when someone hits you is the right thing, not telling tales.

In the corpora

• "Your room looks like a bomb's hit it" is an exaggeration meaning the room is very messy.
• Scientists track big asteroids, and none of the known large ones will hit Earth in the next hundred years.
• The Rat's stick hits something hollow.
• "Use your words" means stop hitting, screaming or whining and say what you want.
• "Surgical strike" means a bombing that is claimed to hit only its target, though it often hits more.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.