HITTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hitting mean? 

• HITTING (noun)
  The noun HITTING has 1 sense:

1. the act of contacting one thing with another

  Familiarity information: HITTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HITTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of contacting one thing with another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hit; hitting; striking

Context example:

after three misses she finally got a hit

Hypernyms ("hitting" is a kind of...):

touch; touching (the act of putting two things together with no space between them)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hitting"):

contusion (the action of bruising)

crash; smash (the act of colliding with something)

bunt ((baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat)

fly; fly ball ((baseball) a hit that flies up in the air)

ground ball; groundball; grounder; hopper ((baseball) a hit that travels along the ground)

header ((soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head)

scorcher; screamer (a very hard hit ball)

plunk; plunker ((baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly)

Derivation:

hit (hit with a missile from a weapon)

hit (hit the intended target or goal)

hit (hit against; come into sudden contact with)

hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)

hit (cause to move by striking)

 Context examples 

Yet ever are we hitting the trail in the dark before daylight, and still on the trail does the dark after nightfall find us.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Within a day of the solar wind hitting Jupiter, the chemistry in its atmosphere changed and its temperature rose, the team found.

(Jupiter's Atmosphere Heats up under Solar Wind, NASA)

You seem to be hitting all the hot spots in the sky!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Since late August, the Cosmic Ray Subsystem instrument on Voyager 2 has measured about a 5 percent increase in the rate of cosmic rays hitting the spacecraft compared to early August.

(NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space, NASA)

"It's as big as you can make a disk galaxy without hitting anything else in space."

(Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy, NASA)

Always, they broke camp in the dark, and the first gray of dawn found them hitting the trail with fresh miles reeled off behind them.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Many rumours had come up to us from the west as to Crab Wilson’s fine science and the quickness of his hitting, but the truth surpassed what had been expected of him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I'm hitting the long trail, old man, where you cannot follow. Now give me a growl—the last, good, good-bye growl."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The spacecraft zipped through this region at speeds of about 77,000 mph (124,000 kph) relative to the planet, so small particles hitting a sensitive area could potentially have disabled the spacecraft.

(Cassini Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings, NASA)

I ran in close and struck another blow, hitting the shoulder instead of the head.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)