different between sound vs strike

English

Alternative forms

• soune, sownd, sowne (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /sa?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ?esund, from Old English sund, ?esund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-Germanic *gasundaz, *sundaz (“healthy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sunt-, *swent- (“vigorous, active, healthy”).

Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound”), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy”), West Frisian sûn (“healthy”), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound”), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy”), German gesund (“healthy, sound”), Danish sund (“healthy”), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy”). Related also to Dutch gezwind (“fast, quick”), German geschwind (“fast, quick”), Old English sw?þ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”). See swith.

Adjective

sound (comparative sounder, superlative soundest)

1. Healthy.
2. Complete, solid, or secure.
3. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.

   Hypernym: valid
4. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.

5. (of sleep) Quiet and deep.

6. Heavy; laid on with force.

7. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

sound (comparative more sound, superlative most sound)

1. Soundly.

Interjection

sound

1. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.

Etymology 2

• Noun: from Middle English sownde, alteration of sowne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sun, soun, Old French son, from accusative of Latin sonus.
• Verb: from Middle English sownden, sounen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suner, sounder, Old French soner (modern sonner), from Latin son?.
• The hypercorrect -d appears in the fifteenth century.

Displaced native Middle English swei, from Old English sw??.

Noun

sound (countable and uncountable, plural sounds)

1. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
2. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
   • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.

3. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc
4. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
5. Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:sound

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (saundo)

Translations

See also

• audible

Verb

sound (third-person singular simple present sounds, present participle sounding, simple past and past participle sounded)

1. (intransitive) To produce a sound.

2. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
3. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
5. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy.

6. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.

7. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.

Synonyms

• (to make noise): echo, reecho, resonate
• See also Thesaurus:sound

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English sound, sund, from Old English sund (“the power, capacity, or act of swimming; swimming; sea; ocean; water; sound; strait; channel”), from Proto-Germanic *sund? (“swimming; sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem- (“swimming; sea”). Cognate with Dutch sond (“sound; strait”), Danish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Swedish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Icelandic sund (“sound; strait; channel”). Related to swim.

Noun

sound (plural sounds)

1. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.

   • The Sound of Denmarke, where ships pay toll.

2. The air bladder of a fish.

3. A cuttlefish.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English sounden, from Old French sonder, from sonde (“sounding line”) of Germanic origin, compare Old English sundgyrd (“a sounding rod”), sundline (“a sounding line”), Old English sund (“water, sea”). More at Etymology 3 above.

Verb

sound (third-person singular simple present sounds, present participle sounding, simple past and past participle sounded)

1. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.

2. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.

   When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.

   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     I was in jest, / And by that offer meant to sound your breast.

   • I've sounded my Numidians man by man.

3. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.

4. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.

Translations

Noun

sound (plural sounds)

1. A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.

Translations

References

• sound at OneLook Dictionary Search
• sound in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• nodus, udons, undos

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sound.

Noun

sound m (invariable)

1. (music) sound (distinctive style and sonority)

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)

2. (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.

3. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
4. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
5. 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

6. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
7. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
8. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.

9. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
10. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
11. 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.
12. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
13. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
14. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
15. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
16. The discovery of a source of something.
17. The strike plate of a door.
18. (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