Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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hit | Yes | No | Yes | No |
pound | Yes | No | Yes | No |
hit (noun) | pound (noun) |
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the act of contacting one thing with another | the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) |
a conspicuous success | a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs |
(baseball) when a batter strikes a picthed ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense) | a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain) |
a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate | a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec |
a connection made via the internet to another website | the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence |
a dose of a narcotic drug | the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents |
(physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together | the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters |
formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence | |
the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters | |
the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters | |
the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters | |
16 ounces avoirdupois | |
a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy |
hit (verb) | pound (verb) |
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pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to | break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle |
make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target | hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument |
hit with a missile from a weapon | strike or drive against with a heavy impact |
hit the intended target or goal | place or shut up in a pound |
deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument | shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits |
hit against; come into sudden contact with | partition off into compartments |
produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments | move rhythmically |
cause to move by striking | move heavily or clumsily |
affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely | |
reach a destination, either real or abstract | |
drive something violently into a location | |
reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | |
cause to experience suddenly | |
encounter by chance | |
kill intentionally and with premeditation |