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Strike can be a verb or a noun.
strike used as a verb:
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
"Please strike the last sentence." - To hit.
"Strike the door sharply with your foot and see if it comes loose." - To stop working to achieve better working conditions.
"The workers struck for a week before the new contract went through." - To impress, seem or appear (to).
"Golf has always struck me as a waste of time." - To manufacture, as by stamping.
"We will strike a medal in your honour" - To haul down, or lower a mast, a flag or cargo, etc.
- To capitulate: to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- (theatrical) To dismantle and take away the set; (strike the set)
- Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
"The clock struck one."
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 →
strike used as a noun:
- a status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught
- the act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame
- a work stoppage
- a blow or application of physical force against something
- 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.
"1882: The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 207." - the status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at
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 strike?
- Verb usage: Please strike the last sentence.
- Verb usage: Strike the door sharply with your foot and see if it comes loose.
- Verb usage: The workers struck for a week before the new contract went through.
- Verb usage: Golf has always struck me as a waste of time.
- Verb usage: We will strike a medal in your honour
- Verb usage: The clock struck one.
- Noun usage: 1882: The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 207.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of strike 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 strike, 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).
