different between slam vs strike

slam

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /slæm/
  • Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

From Middle English *slammen (not recorded), apparently from a Scandinavian source ultimately from Old Norse slæma, slœma (to slam, swing a weapon, strike an object out of reach), related to Old Norse slamra, slambra (to slam). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål slamre (to slam), Swedish slamra (to pound, beat, make a clatter, rattle), Norwegian Nynorsk slamra (to sway, dangle).

Verb

slam (third-person singular simple present slams, present participle slamming, simple past and past participle slammed)

  1. (transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
  2. (transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
  3. (transitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.
  4. (intransitive) To strike against suddenly and heavily.
  5. (transitive, colloquial) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
  6. (basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
  7. (intransitive, bridge) To make a slam bid.
  8. (transitive, card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
    • 1742, Edmond Hoyle, A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist
      D having seven Spades in his Hand wins them, and consequently slams A and B
  9. (transitive, slang) To change providers (e.g. of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without clear (if any) consent.
  10. (transitive) To drink off, to drink quickly.
  11. To compete in a poetry slam.
  12. (transitive, drugs, slang) To inject intravenously; shoot up.
Synonyms
  • (drink quickly): See also Thesaurus:drink
  • (shoot up): bang
Derived terms
  • slam the door on
  • slam on the brakes
Translations

Noun

slam (countable and uncountable, plural slams)

  1. (countable) A sudden impact or blow.
    • 1981, Shel Silverstein, “How Many, How Much”, A Light in the Attic, Harper & Row:
      How many slams in an old screen door? / Depends how loud you shut it.
  2. (countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
    • The slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam.
  3. (countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
  4. (countable, colloquial, US) An insult.
  5. (uncountable) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
  6. A poetry slam.
  7. A slambook.
    • 2017, Mark Duffett, Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music (page 194)
      Regular friendship books had a variety of variations, such as slams, crams, and decos.
  8. (Britain, dialect) The refuse of alum works.
  9. (music) A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs
Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

slam (countable and uncountable, plural slams)

  1. (uncountable, obsolete) A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
  2. A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.
    Synonym: spit
  3. (countable, card games) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
  4. (countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
  5. (countable, sports) Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
Derived terms
  • grand slam
  • little slam

Verb

slam (third-person singular simple present slams, present participle slamming, simple past and past participle slammed)

  1. (transitive, card games) To defeat by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.

Etymology 3

Compare Dutch slomp, German Schlampe.

Noun

slam (plural slams)

  1. (obsolete) A shambling fellow.

Anagrams

  • AMLs, AMSL, LAMs, Lams, MASL, SAML, alms, lams, mals, masl, salm

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?slam]

Noun

slam

  1. genitive plural of sláma

French

Noun

slam m (plural slams)

  1. poetry slam

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [slam]

Noun

slam

  1. dative of sl?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Schlamm

Noun

slam n (definite singular slammet, uncountable)

  1. mud, ooze, slime, sludge, slurry

References

  • “slam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “slam” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Schlamm

Noun

slam n (definite singular slammet, uncountable)

  1. mud, ooze, slime, sludge, slurry

References

  • “slam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Volapük

Proper noun

slam

  1. Islam

Declension

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strike

English

Etymology

From Middle English stryken, from Old English str?can, from Proto-Germanic *str?kan?, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (to stroke, rub, press). Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen, Danish stryge, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /st?a?k/
  • Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

strike (third-person singular simple present strikes, present participle striking, simple past struck, past participle struck or (see usage notes) stricken or (archaic) strucken)

  1. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
  2. (physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
    1. (transitive) To hit.
    2. (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
    3. (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
    4. (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
    5. (intransitive, dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.
    6. (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.
    7. (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
    8. (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
    9. (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
  3. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
  4. (personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
    1. (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
    2. (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
    3. (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
    4. (transitive, figuratively) To impinge upon.
    5. (intransitive) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
      Synonym: strike work
      • 1889, New York (State). Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Statistics, Annual Report (part 2, page 127)
        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 []
    6. (transitive) To impress, seem or appear (to).
    7. (transitive) To create an impression.
    8. (sports) To score a goal.
    9. To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
    10. To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
    11. (intransitive, Britain, obsolete, slang) To steal or rob; to take forcibly or fraudulently.
    12. (slang, archaic) To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.
  5. To touch; to act by appulse.
  6. (transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
    1. (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
    2. (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
    3. To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
      • 1979, Texas Monthly (volume 7, number 8, page 109)
        The crew struck the set with a ferocity hitherto unseen, an army more valiant in retreat than advance.
  7. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
  8. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
  9. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
  10. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
  11. To make and ratify.
  12. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
  13. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
  14. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
  15. (sugar-making, obsolete) To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.
  16. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
  17. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
  18. To balance (a ledger or account).

Usage notes

  • The past participle of strike is usually struck (e.g. He'd struck it rich, or When the clock had struck twelve, etc.); stricken is significantly rarer. However, it is still found in transitive constructions where the subject is the object of an implied action, especially in the phrases "stricken with/by (an affliction)" or "stricken (something) from the record" (e.g. The Court has stricken the statement from the record, or The city was stricken with disease, etc.). Except for in these contexts, stricken is almost never found in informal or colloquial speech.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

strike (plural strikes)

  1. (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.
    • 1996, Lyle Lovett, "Her First Mistake" on The Road to Ensenada:
      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.
  2. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
  3. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
  4. A blow or application of physical force against something.
    • 1996, Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes
      [] and they could hear the rough sound, could hear too the first strikes of rain as though called down by the music.
    • 2008, Lich King, "Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast", Toxic Zombie Onslaught
  5. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
  6. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
  7. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
  8. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
  9. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
  10. 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.
  11. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
  12. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
  13. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
  14. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
  15. The discovery of a source of something.
  16. The strike plate of a door.
  17. (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
    • 2014, Michael Gorman, Effective Stillwater Fly Fishing (page 87)
      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.

Antonyms

  • (work stoppage): industrial peace; lockout

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

  • German: streiken

References

Further reading

  • strike in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • Farmer, John Stephen (1904) Slang and Its Analogues?[1], volume 7, page 12

Anagrams

  • Kister, kiters, trikes

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /st?ajk/

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

  1. (bowling) a strike

Derived terms

  • striker

Related terms

  • spare

Italian

Noun

strike m (invariable)

  1. strike (in baseball and ten-pin bowling)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English strike.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /?st?ajk/, /is.?t?aj.ki/

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

  1. (bowling) strike (the act of knocking down all pins)
  2. (baseball) strike (the act of missing a swing at the ball)

Spanish

Etymology

From English strike.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?st?aik/, [?st??ai?k]
  • IPA(key): /es?t?aik/, [es?t??ai?k]

Noun

strike m (plural strikes)

  1. (baseball) strike
  2. (bowling) strike

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