Word Finder - striking

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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).

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The act by which something strikes or is struck.

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Making a strong impression.

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He looked quite striking in his new suit and tie.

He made a striking figure, so tall and lean.

They have crossed without striking a blow!

He was dressed in black, and his chiseled features and striking blue eyes were perfect enough to have been sculptured.

He had dealt summarily with the striking policemen in Boston Sept.

A rope fell out of the sky, striking Dean on the shoulder.

That he was not opposed to labour was shown by his earlier support of the bill limiting the scope of injunctions against striking employees.

The style is commonly called Byzantine; but some of the most striking features of the churches of Ravenna - the colonnades, the mosaics, perhaps the cupolas - are not so much Byzantine as representative of early Christian art generally.

The striking use of the term Snµjrpaot in the sense of " the dead " may be noted in this connexion.

Although his making religion the sole factor of this evolution was a perversion of the historical facts, the book was so consistent throughout, so full of ingenious ideas, and written in so striking a style, that it ranks as one of the masterpieces of the French language in the 19th century.

But perhaps the most interesting relic of the past in Saalfeld is the striking ruin of the Hoher Schwarm, called later the Sorbenburg, said to have been erected in the 7th century.

The last part of Bruce's life, from 1315 to 1329, began with an attempt which was the most striking testimony that could have been given to the effect of Bannockburn, and which, had it succeeded, might have altered the future of the British Isles.

Five hundred years later - about r600 B.C. - we observe that certain striking changes have taken place.

On the Continent, the movement was more aristocratic and theoretical; it was part of the intellectual renaissance which found its most striking expression in the principles of the French Revolution.

On this subject many monographs and larger works have been published in recent years, but dealing rather with such questions as trade unionism, co-operation and factory legislation, than the structure and organization of particular industries, or the causes and the results of the formation of the great combinations, peculiarly characteristic of the United States, but not wanting in England, which are amongst the most striking economic phenomena of modern times.

There is quite a different method of considering the nebular origin of our system, which leads in a very striking manner to conclusions practically identical with those we have just sketched.

An experiment made on the railway staff at Bovino, a highly malarious district on the Adriatic, gave a striking result.

But the surviving material is extremely uneven; vital events in these centuries are treated with a slightness in striking contrast to the relatively detailed evidence for the preceding period - evidence, however, which is far from being contemporary.

In this, as in so many other respects, the old Cretan tradition receives striking confirmation.

The discovery that the great Minoan foundation at Cnossus was at once a palace and a sanctuary of the Double Axe and its associated divinities has now supplied a striking and it may well be thought an overwhelming confirmation of this view.

Seager, an American explorer, has found striking remains of flourishing Minoan settlements.

This last tradition, which was received as an undoubted fact both by Thucydides and Aristotle, has during the last few years received striking confirmation.

Deasy of the 16th Lancers, each striking out a new line, and rendering most valuable service to geography.

The cyclones of the Bay of Bengal appear to originate over the Andaman and Nicobar islands, and are commonly propagated in a north-westward direction, striking the east coast of the Indian peninsula at various points, and then often advancing with an easterly tendency over the land, and passing with extreme violence across the delta of the Ganges.

Striking, too, is the conception of the national God who incites the king to do an act for which he was to be punished.4 To us, the proposal to number the people seems innocent and 3 1 Chron.

He was a man of great originality, and numerous stories were told of his striking sayings and eccentric conduct.

His father is generally described as a butcher, but he sold other things than meat; and although a man of some property and a churchwarden of St Nicholas, Ipswich, his character seems to have borne a striking resemblance to that of Thomas Cromwell's father.

The horsemen were splendidly audacious in riding for long distances into the heart of a hostile country, without support, striking some terrific blows, and then returning rapidly beyond reach of pursuit.

This disparity made the subsequent contrast the more striking.

McCormick and others in America, and finally perfected about 1879 by the addition of an efficient self-binding apparatus, is the most striking example of the application of mechanics to agriculture.

Since Hellriegel's striking discovery farm crops have been conveniently classified as nitrogen-accumulating and nitrogenconsuming.

During the growing season the field affords striking evidence of the influence of different manurial dressings.

The interception by the state of the unearned increment, and the promotion of co-operative agriculture, were the most striking features in his programme.

In the towns the division of labour had proceeded much further than in the rural districts, and there were in existence organized bodies, such as the Gild Merchant and the crafts, whose functions were primarily economic. But one of the most striking characteristics of town life in the middle ages was the manner in which municipal and industrial privileges and responsibilities were interwoven.

After wasting the critical moment of the war in the diversions of court life, the new English king, Edward II., made an inglorious march to Cumnock and back without striking a blow; and then returned south, leaving the war to a succession of generals.

On the Swiss Alps it is one of the most prevalent and striking of the forest trees, its dark evergreen foliage often standing out in strong contrast to the snowy ridges and glaciers beyond.

Characteristic Cretan pottery of this period was found by Petrie in the Fayum in conjunction with XIIth Dynasty remains, and various Cretan products of the period show striking coincidences with XIIth Dynasty styles, especially in their adoption of spiraliform ornament.

Now the most striking characteristic of man, that in fact which marks him specially, as contrasted with other animals, is self-consciousness.

Of his philosophical doctrine proper, the most striking characteristic is Integration, as opposed to Disintegration, both in thought and in reality.

But it is equally plain that the Ophite nucleus has from time to time received very numerous and often curiously perverted accretions from Babylonian Judaism, Oriental Christianity and Parsism, exhibiting a striking example of religious syncretism.

Hibil's contest with darkness has its prototype in Marduk's battle with chaos, the dragon Tiamat, which (another striking parallel) partially swallows Marduk, just as is related of Hibil and the Manichaean primal man.

The study of the physiology of ecdysis in its simpler forms has unfortunately been somewhat neglected, investigators having directed their attention chiefly to the cases that are most striking, such as the transformation of a maggot into a fly, or of a caterpillar into a butterfly.

The differences in appearance between the caterpillar and the butterfly, striking as they are to the eye, do not sufficiently represent the phenomena of metamorphosis to the intelligence.

His scientific achievements would probably have been more striking if they had been less varied.

Its most striking feature and the one from which it derives its name barytes, barite (from the Greek Oapis, heavy) or heavy spar, is its weight.

The Square chapel, erected by the Congregationalists in 18J7, is a striking cruciform building with a tower and elaborate crocketed spire.

The design of these facades is very striking and unlike that of any other building in the world.

But it is in the domestic architecture of Venice that we find the most striking and characteristic examples of Gothic. The introduction of that style coincided with the consolidation of the Venetian constitution and the Gothic development of Venetian commerce both in the Levant and with England and Flanders.

The ballad supplied him with the outline of a simple and striking plot.

In storms the boulders could be heard striking each other overhead.

The industry was threatened with extinction, and would certainly have dwindled to insignificant dimensions had not a few earnest artists, working in the face of many difficulties and discouragements, succeeded in striking out new lines and establishing new standar4s for excellence.