different between strike vs bump
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)
- (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- (physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
- (transitive) To hit.
- (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
- (intransitive, dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
- (transitive) To hit.
- (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- (personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
- (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- (transitive, figuratively) To impinge upon.
- (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 […]
- (transitive) To impress, seem or appear (to).
- (transitive) To create an impression.
- (sports) To score a goal.
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- (intransitive, Britain, obsolete, slang) To steal or rob; to take forcibly or fraudulently.
- (slang, archaic) To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.
- (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- (transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
- (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- 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.
- 1979, Texas Monthly (volume 7, number 8, page 109)
- (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
- (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
- (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To make and ratify.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- (sugar-making, obsolete) To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
- 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)
- (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.
- 1996, Lyle Lovett, "Her First Mistake" on The Road to Ensenada:
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- 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
- 1996, Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes
- (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- 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.
- (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
- (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- The strike plate of a door.
- (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.
- 2014, Michael Gorman, Effective Stillwater Fly Fishing (page 87)
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)
- (bowling) a strike
Derived terms
- striker
Related terms
- spare
Italian
Noun
strike m (invariable)
- 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)
- (bowling) strike (the act of knocking down all pins)
- (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)
- (baseball) strike
- (bowling) strike
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bump
English
Etymology
From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision", also "to make a heavy, hollow sound, boom”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”). Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”), probably of imitative origin. More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
bump (countable and uncountable, plural bumps)
- A light blow or jolting collision.
- The sound of such a collision.
- A protuberance on a level surface.
- A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
- (obsolete) One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (dated, metonymically) the faculty itself
- c.1845 Thomas MacNevin, cited in Charles Gavan Duffy (1896) Young Ireland: A Fragment of Irish History, 1840-45; final revision (London: T.F. Unwin) Vol.II p.100:
- Our task is to elevate the character of the people, raising up, in fact, their bump of self-esteem and suppressing the bumps of servility and fury.
- c.1845 Thomas MacNevin, cited in Charles Gavan Duffy (1896) Young Ireland: A Fragment of Irish History, 1840-45; final revision (London: T.F. Unwin) Vol.II p.100:
- (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
- The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
- (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
- (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
- The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
- (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.
- In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
- (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
bump (third-person singular simple present bumps, present participle bumping, simple past and past participle bumped)
- To knock against or run into with a jolt.
- To move up or down by a step; displace.
- (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- (chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
- (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
- 2005, Lois Jones, EasyJet: the story of Britain's biggest low-cost airline (page 192)
- Easyjet said the compensation package for passengers bumped off flights was 'probably the most flawed piece of European legislation in recent years' […]
- 2005, Lois Jones, EasyJet: the story of Britain's biggest low-cost airline (page 192)
- (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).
- 2010, Nancy Conner, Matthew MacDonald, Office 2010: The Missing Manual, p. 332:
- A colleague emails with news that her 4:30 meeting got bumped to 3:30.
- 2010, Nancy Conner, Matthew MacDonald, Office 2010: The Missing Manual, p. 332:
- (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
- (intransitive, archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
- as a bittern bumps within a reed
- (printing, dated) To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.
- (slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
- You know about the night the kid bumped Brody?
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
bump
- (Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
Danish
Etymology
Onomatopoeic, compare English bump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bom?p/, [?b??m?b?]
- Homophone: bomb
Noun
bump n (singular definite bumpet, plural indefinite bump)
- thud
- jolt
- road hump
Inflection
Derived terms
- vejbump
- bumpe
Verb
bump (form)
- imperative of bumpe
Welsh
Numeral
bump
- Soft mutation of pump (“five”).
Mutation
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