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strike (STRIGHK) (verb)
1. To hit sharply, as with the hand, the fist, or a weapon; to inflict (a blow): "While they were struggling to catch the football, you could see one player accidentally strike another one in the face."
2. To cause to come into violent or forceful contact: "Elaine warned her friend to be careful or she might strike her knee against the desk if she were to make a sudden turn in her chair."
3. To produce a flame, light, or a spark from something by friction: "Nick had to strike a match so he could start the fire in the fireplace."
strike (STRIGHK) (noun)
1. A period of time when workers stop working in order to force an employer to agree to their demands: "The airline had to delay its flights because the pilots were on strike for better working conditions."
2. In baseball, a ball thrown by a pitcher which passes through a certain area over the home plate without being hit and that counts against the batter: "The batter had a third strike which meant he was out and so a new batter would take his place."
3. In the game of bowling, the achievement of knocking down all ten pins with the first roll of the ball: "Kate surprised everyone, including herself, when she made a strike with her first attempt with the bowling ball."

Mother often confused her sports. She would cheer when the umpire would call "STRIKE" against our local baseball players. She would laugh when she got a strike when she was bowling. Every once in a while, she would shake her head and strike her forehead as an apology for the goofs she would make.

Units related to: “strike
(Latin: beat, strike, hit; attack)
(Greek: to drive, strike, beat out; general application is "beaten metal, metal plate")
(Latin: ward off, to ward off, strike, keep off, guard, protect; from fendere [found only in compounded words])
(Latin: strike, to strike down; to destroy, dashed down, damaged, destroyed)
(Latin: to blunt, dull; from ob- "against" plus tundere, "to beat, strike")
(Latin: push, beat, strike, knock, drive)
(Greek > Latin: strike, stroke, blow, wound; beat the chest; lament loudly [while beating the chest]; pestilence)
(Greek: stroke, blow, strike; paralysis)
(Latin: push, beat, strike, knock, drive; drive to, force toward)
(Latin: from quatere, to shake, to strike, to beat)
(Latin: to strike down, to hit; to challenge; to prove wrong, to refuse, to reject)
(Latin: to clap, to strike, to beat; to clap the hands in approbation [recognition as good], to approve)
(Greek plektron > Latin plectrum: thing to strike with; such as, a pick for a lyre, a zither, a guitar, an autoharp, etc.)
(Latin: to fight, to fight against, to strike, to puncture; a point; fist, handful)
(Latin: pungere, punctum to strike, to hit, to punch, to pierce, to puncture, to point, to sting, to bite; a dot, a mark; a point, a sharp point, a pinpoint)
(Greek > Latin: to beat, to strike; a blow; a dent, an impression, a mark, original form; a mold; a figure, an image, a form, a kind)
(Latin: to beat, to strike; to drive, to force back; from verber, whip, lash, rod; by extension, to make sounds or noises or those sounds and echoes that are thrown back again or repeatedly)