Word Finder - strikes

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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.

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The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.

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

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A blow or application of physical force against something.

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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, ...

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

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An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.

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

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

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The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.

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The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.

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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.

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Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.

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An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.

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(ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.

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

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The discovery of a source of something.

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The strike plate of a door.

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

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Please strike the last sentence.

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(physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.

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To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.

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A tree strikes its roots deep.

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(personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.

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To touch; to act by appulse.

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To take down, especially in the following contexts.

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To set off on a walk or trip.

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They struck off along the river.

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

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To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.

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to strike into reputation;  to strike into a run

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

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To make and ratify.

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to strike a bargain

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

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

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To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.

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

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

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To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.

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

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To balance (a ledger or account).

He strikes where men are weak.

The strikes were enough to cause disarray among the men.

I heard a tornado never strikes twice in the same spot.

It strikes me the boy could use a friend.

Maybe, but he strikes me as a more direct type—not someone who'd pull off a stunt like that.

Some have questioned whether Friedman's thesis is 100 percent true, mentioning NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia as a potential exception.

The news that no one had survived the strikes on her condo building made tears rise for a different reason.

There are missile strikes on this side now.

One of the guardsmen was half the size of the other two, and his strikes were almost too fast and low for her to catch.

Darian saw the fury cross Jenn's face, and her next strikes were fast and hard enough they might've given her the upper hand she needed.

Taran cursed the animal again under his breath and blocked two strikes before they broke free of the footmen.

During the first six months of 1901 the strikes numbered 600, and involved more than 1,000,000

The magic took hold of her, and she danced away from his strikes as if they were in slow motion.

Tell him I locked down all missile strikes on domestic territory.

One of the ancient trade routes across the Sahara - that from Tripoli to Kuka in Bornu - strikes the lake at its northwest corner, but this has lost much of its former importance.

The colonies were, however, to have other and bitter experiences of strikes before Labour recognized that of all means for settling industrial Australians in South America.

The act contained stringent provisions forbidding strikes; but in this respect it failed to effect its purpose, several strikes occurring in the years following its enactment, in which there were direct refusals to obey awards.

In Western Australia, too, the act failed to prevent strikes taking place.

The number of industrial strikes has risen from year to year, although, on account of the large number of persons involved in some of them, the rise in the number of strikers has not sUlk always corresponded to the number of strikes, During, es.

The boundary between the counties of Perth and Stirling runs from Glengyle, at the head of the lake, down the centre to a point opposite Stronachlachar from which it strikes to the south-western shore towards Loch Arklet.

The most striking general fact as regards climate in the archipelago is that wherever that part of the south-east monsoon which has passed over Australia strikes, the climate is comparatively dry, and the vegetation is less luxuriant.

Wages have also been the subject of legislation; special commissions have been empowered to regulate the wages in the so-called " home " industries (sweating), and an arbitration board has been appointed to fix the salaries of clerks in the metal industry, thus minimizing the danger of conflicts in respect of wages having to be settled by means of strikes.

So also the angle /3 must be increased by S to obtain the angle at which the shot strikes a horizontal plane - the water, for instance.

Since the Poles were at first unyielding, Ruthenian demonstrations and strikes of students arose, and the Ruthenians were no longer content with the reversion of a few separate professorial chairs, and with parallel courses of lectures.

What strikes us most in his book is his wide and keen observation of social facts, and his perpetual tendency to dwell on these and elicit their significance, instead of drawing conclusions from abstract principles by elaborate chains of reasoning.

Crossing O'Connell bridge, the short Westmoreland Street strikes into a thoroughfare which traverses the entire city parallel with the river, and is known successively (from west to east) as James, Thomas, High, Castle, Dame, College and Great Brunswick streets.

A range called the Sierra de Chama, which, however, changes its name frequently from place to place, strikes eastward towards British Honduras, and is connected by low hills with the Cockscomb Mountains; another similar range, the Sierra de Santa Cruz, continues east to Cape Cocoli between the Polochic and the Sarstoon; and a third, the Sierra de las Minas or, in its eastern portion, Sierra del Mico, stretches between the Polochic and the Motagua.

And in recent years the danger of riots during strikes has, in some states, made it important to have a man of decision and fearlessness in the office which issues orders to the state militia.

No sooner is he overcome with sleep than Judith, seizing his sword, strikes off his head and gives it to her maid; both now leave the camp (as they had previously been accustomed to do, ostensibly for prayer) and return to Bethulia, where the trophy is displayed amid great rejoicings and thanksgivings.

When provoked it erects the body, and, raising the foot to the breast, strikes downwards with considerable force and rapidity, thus using its sharp and powerful claws as weapons of defence..

There have been mining strikes at Scranton (1871), in the Lehigh and Schuylkill regions (1875), at Hazleton (1897), and one in the anthracite fields (1902) which was settled by a board of arbitrators appointed by President Roosevelt; and there were street railway strikes at Chester in 1908 and in Philadelphia in 1910.

From Katmandu, the capital of Nepal, a difficult mountain route runs by Kirong to the No la (16,600 ft.), descending from which pass it strikes the Tsangpo about midway between Lhasa and Lake Manasarowar.

The Shipki road from Simla, which strikes the Sutlej at Totling (where there is a bridge), leads up to Manasarowar, coinciding with the great high-road (Changlam) after passing Totling.

A few seconds after each of these headlong descents a mysterious sound strikes his ear - compared by some to drumming, and by others to the bleating of a sheep or goat,' which sound evidently comes from the bird as it shoots downwards, and then only.

It was not effected till several years had been spent in long parliamentary discussions, by demonstrations on the part of the supporters of franchise revision and by strikes of a political tendency.

Here the Bashgol and Chitral valleys unite and the boundary passes to the water-divide east of the Chitral river, after crossing it by a spur which leaves the insignificant Arnawai valley to the north; along this water-divide it extends to a point nearly opposite the quaint old town of Pashat in the Kunar valley (the Chitral river has become the Kunar in its course southwards), and then stretches away in an uneven and undefined line, dividing certain sections of the Mohmands from each other by hypothetical landmarks, till it strikes the Kabul river near Palosi.

Strikes are very common, seventy-three having occurred in such a year of comparative quiet as 1903; but the causes of disturbance are almost as often political as economic, and the annals of the city include a long list of revolutionary riots and bomb outrages.

He aroused the hostility of labour by his opposition to organization and strikes among postal employees.

A bill was passed by the States-General declaring railway strikes illegal.

This done, the subdeacon strikes the door with the staff of the cross, when it is immediately opened, and the procession enters singing.

From Oje at the head of JOrund a driving-route strikes south to the Nordfjord, and from Merok on Geiranger another strikes inland to Otta, on the railway to Lillehammer and Christiania.

The claws are large, strongly compressed, sharp, and exhibit the retractile condition in the highest degree, being drawn backwards and upwards into a sheath by the action of an elastic ligament so long as the foot is in a state of repose, but exerted by muscular action when the animal strikes its prey.

In 1883-1884 there were a number of serious strikes, collisions between the police and the workmen, followed by assassinations; it was a peculiarity of Austrian anarchists that in some cases they united robbery to murder.

Aristides is engaged in a real contest; he strikes hard blows, and gives no quarter.

To take one's watch from the pocket and look at it when from a familiar clock-tower a familiar bell strikes a familiar hour, is an instance of a habitual action initiated by a sense perception outside attentive consciousness.

Tradeunionism flourishes in Denmark, and strikes are of frequent occurrence.

It first strikes eastwards round the head of Loch Laggan and then swings southwards, pursuing a sinuous course till it leaves the Highlands on the east side of Loch Lomond.

It runs from the mouth of Loch Ryan in a sinuous north-easterly direction, keeping near the northern limit of the region till it reaches the basin of the Nith, where it quits the Uplands altogether, descends into the lowlands of Ayrshire, and, after circling round the headwaters of the Nith, strikes south-eastwards across half the breadth of the Uplands, then sweeps north and eastwards between the basins of the Clyde, Tweed and Annan, and then through the moors that surround.

A Board of Arbitration (1895) has authority to make and publish investigations of all facts relating to strikes and lock-outs, to issue subpoenas for the attendance and testifying of witnesses, and "to adjust strikes or lock-outs by mediation or conciliation, without a formal submission to arbitration."

The relations between capital and labour have resulted in serious conditions, the number of strikes from1880-1901having been 2640, and the number of lock-outs 95.