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Hit can be a verb or a noun.

hit used as a verb:

  1. To administer a blow to.
    "One boy hit the other."
  2. To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
    "The ball hit the fence."
  3. To manage to touch in the right place.
    "I hit the jackpot."
  4. To kill a person on the instructions of a third party.
    "Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river."
  5. In blackjack, to deal a card to.
    "Hit me."
  6. To come up to bat.
    "Jones hit for the pitcher."
  7. To go (somewhere).
    "We hit the grocery store on the way to the park."
  8. To begin; to start; to open.
    "The movie hits theaters in December."
  9. To use.
    "The external web servers hit DBSRV7, the internal web server hits DBSRV3."
  10. To affect negatively.
    "The economy was hit by a recession."
  11. To have sex with.
    "I'd hit that."
  12. To murder with premeditation for criminal or political purposes.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

hit used as a noun:

  1. A blow; a punch.
    "The hit was very slight."
  2. A success, especially in the entertainment industry.
    "The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans."
  3. An attack on a location, person or people.
  4. The result(s) of a search of a computer system or, for example, the entire Internet using a search engine
  5. A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
    "My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine."
  6. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
  7. The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder's choice.
    "The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth."
  8. A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
    "Where am I going to get my next hit?"
  9. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is hit?

As detailed above, 'hit' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: One boy hit the other.
  2. Verb usage: The ball hit the fence.
  3. Verb usage: I hit the jackpot.
  4. Verb usage: Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
  5. Verb usage: Hit me.
  6. Verb usage: Jones hit for the pitcher.
  7. Verb usage: We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
  8. Verb usage: The movie hits theaters in December.
  9. Verb usage: The external web servers hit DBSRV7, the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
  10. Verb usage: The economy was hit by a recession.
  11. Verb usage: I'd hit that.
  12. Noun usage: The hit was very slight.
  13. Noun usage: The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
  14. Noun usage: My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
  15. Noun usage: The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
  16. Noun usage: Where am I going to get my next hit?

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of hit are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of hit, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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