Climb vs Hit - What's the difference?
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To ascend; rise; to go up.
* Dryden
To mount; to move upwards on.
To scale; to get to the top of something.
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=May 22, author=David Harrison
, title=American boy, 13, is youngest person to climb Everest
, work=Daily Telegraph online
To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
* 1900 , (James Frazer), (The Golden Bough) Chapter 65
* 1900 , , ''(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
* 2008 , Tony Atkins, Dragonhawk - the Turning
to practise the sport of climbing
to jump high
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, author=Paul Fletcher, title=Man City 4 - 0 Aston Villa, work=BBC
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, title=Ospreys Glasgow Magners League, work=South Wales Evening Post
* {{quote-news, year=2001, date=December 29, author=Derick Allsop
, title=Bolton's nine men hit back to steal a point, work=Daily Telegraph online
To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
(botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
An act of climbing.
* 2007 , Nigel Shepherd, Complete Guide to Rope Techniques
The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
* 1999 , B. Keith Jones, The Roomie Do Me Blues
An upwards struggle
* {{quote-news
, year=1998
, date=September 30
, author=AP
, title=Worst May Lie Ahead For Asia, Report Warns
, work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
To strike.
#(lb) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
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#*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
#*1922-1927 , (Frank Harris), (My Life and Loves)
#*:He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.
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#*:BELLO: (Shouts) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That's the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you! (He slaps her face)
#*:BLOOM: (Whimpers) You're after hitting me. I'll tell
#*1934 , , The Slugger's Game
#*:I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.
#(lb) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
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#*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
#*:If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another?
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#*:a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.
#*1882 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance
#*:Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.
# To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
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# To attack, especially amphibiously.
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To briefly visit.
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To encounter.
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(lb) To attain, to achieve.
# To reach or achieve.
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#*2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited,
#*:And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.
#(lb) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:And oft it hits / Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
#*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
#*:Millions miss for one that hits .
#To guess; to light upon or discover.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:Thou hast hit it.
(lb) To affect negatively.
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To make a play.
# In blackjack, to deal a card to.
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# To come up to bat.
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#(lb) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
To use; to connect to.
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To have sex with.
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To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana
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A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
* Dryden
A success, especially in the entertainment industry.
* Alexander Pope
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=February 9
, author=Tasha Robinson
, title=Film: Review: Chico & Rita
An attack on a location, person or people.
# In the game of , a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
(computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine
(Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
An approximately correct answer in a test set.
(baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
(colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
(dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
(dialectal) .
* 1922 , Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, Volume 130:
* 1998 , Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:
As nouns the difference between climb and hit
is that climb is an act of climbing while hit is .As a verb climb
is to ascend; rise; to go up.climb
English
Verb
- Prices climbed steeply.
- Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.
- They climbed the mountain.
- Climbing a tree
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- A priest clad in a white robe climbs the tree and with a golden sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloth.
- She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way. Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.
- Cutter and Bolan climbed around the furniture and piled into the back of the truck.
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Usage notes
In the past, the forms clomb'' and ''clumb were encountered as simple past and past participle forms; these forms are now archaic or dialectical.Derived terms
* climb down * climb down someone's throat * climb up * climb the ladder * climb the walls * climber * declimb * have a mountain to climb * unclimbedSynonyms
(get to the top of) * scaleNoun
(wikipedia climb) (en noun)- Make sure that you keep checking to see that everything remains safe throughout the climb .
Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- The Mur de Péguère is a savage little climb , its last four kilometres a narrow tunnel of trees and excited spectators urging on the straining riders.
- I guess the room wasn't so bad, except for the climb to get there. The stairs were destined to be a serious health hazard.
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Derived terms
* rate of climbhit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
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Antonyms
* (manage to touch in the right place) missDerived terms
(Terms derived from the verb "hit") * don't let the door hit you on the way out * flood-hit (adjective ) * hit a home run * hit a nerve * hit a six * hit a snag * hit above one's weight * hit and run * hit at * hit back * hit below one's weight * hit for six * hit home * hit it an quit it * hit it big * hit it off * hitman * hit on * hit one out of the ballpark * hit one's stride * hit out * hit paydirt * hit the ball twice * hit the books * hit the bottle * hit the bricks * hit the ceiling * hit the deck * hit the dirt * hit the gas * hit the ground running * hit the hay * hit the head * hit the headlines * hit the jackpot * hit the nail on the head * hit the net * hit the pan * hit the pavement * hit the road * hit rock bottom * hit the rock * hit the rocks * hit the roof * hit the sack * hit the silk * hit the skids * hit the spot * hit up * hit upon * hit wicket * hittable * hitter * hitting * not know what hit one * pinch-hitNoun
(en noun)- So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, / And, at each hit , with wonder seems amazed.
- The hit was very slight.
- The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
- What late he called a blessing, now was wit, / And God's good providence, a lucky hit .
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- My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
- The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
- Where am I going to get my next hit ?
- a happy hit
Antonyms
* (a punch) miss * (success) flop, turkeyDerived terms
* banjo hit * base hit * cult hit * direct hit * hit counter * hit list * hit parade * hit point * hit squad * hit test * infield hit * king hit * nervous hit * no hit * one-hit wonder * pinch hit * smash hit * straight hit * take a hitEtymology 2
From (etyl) . More at (l). Note 'it.Pronoun
- But how hit was to come about didn't appear.
- Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit' slide down the hill ' hits own way.
