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As nouns the difference between hit and do

is that hit is while do is the bright time of the day (chiefly in adverbial constructions).

hit

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

  • To strike.
  • #(lb) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*: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.
  • #*
  • #*: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.
  • #:
  • #*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • #*:If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another?
  • #*
  • #*: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.
  • #:
  • # To attack, especially amphibiously.
  • #:
  • To briefly visit.
  • :
  • To encounter.
  • :
  • (lb) To attain, to achieve.
  • # To reach or achieve.
  • #:
  • #*2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal:
  • #*: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.
  • :
  • To make a play.
  • # In blackjack, to deal a card to.
  • #:
  • # To come up to bat.
  • #:
  • #(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.
  • :
  • To have sex with.
  • :
  • To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana
  • :
  • Antonyms
    * (manage to touch in the right place) miss
    Derived 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-hit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
  • * Dryden
  • So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, / And, at each hit , with wonder seems amazed.
    The hit was very slight.
  • A success, especially in the entertainment industry.
  • The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • What late he called a blessing, now was wit, / And God's good providence, a lucky hit .
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=February 9 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Review: Chico & Rita citation , page= , passage=Chico & Rita opens in the modern era, as an aged, weary Chico shines shoes in his native Cuba. Then a song heard on the radio—a hit he wrote and recorded with Rita in their youth—carries him back to 1948 Havana, where they first met. }}
  • 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.
  • My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
  • 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.
  • The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
  • (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
  • Where am I going to get my next hit ?
  • 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 happy hit
  • A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
  • Antonyms
    * (a punch) miss * (success) flop, turkey
    Derived 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 hit

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at (l). Note 'it.

    Pronoun

  • (dialectal) .
  • * 1922 , Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, Volume 130:
  • But how hit was to come about didn't appear.
  • * 1998 , Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:
  • Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit' slide down the hill ' hits own way.
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    do

    English

    (wikipedia do)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (auxiliary)
  • (auxiliary)
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=“Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.}}
  • (auxiliary)
  • * , chapter=7
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. […]”}}
  • (auxiliary)
  • To perform; to execute.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing ",
  • (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), ''(The Faerie Queene), II.vi:
  • Sometimes to doe him laugh, she would assay / To laugh at shaking of the leaues light, / Or to behold the water worke
  • * W. Caxton
  • My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences.
  • * Spenser
  • a fatal plague which many did to die
  • * Bible, 2 Cor. viii. 1
  • We do you to wit [i.e. we make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.
  • (transitive) To suffice.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=“Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.}}
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • "Here," she said, "take your old Bunny! He'll do to sleep with you!" And she dragged the Rabbit out by one ear, and put him into the Boy's arms.
  • To be reasonable or acceptable.
  • To have (as an effect).
  • To fare; to succeed or fail.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
  • (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
  • To cook.
  • * , Three Men In a Boat
  • , passage=It seemed, from his account, that he was very good at doing scrambled eggs.}}
  • * {{quote-news, 1944, , , News from the Suburbs, Punch citation
  • , passage=We went down below, and the galley-slave did some ham and eggs, and the first lieutenant, who was aged 19, told me about Sicily, and time went like a flash.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 2005, Alan Tansley, The Grease Monkey, page=99, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=V63jCdQpv2kC&pg=PA99
  • , passage=Next morning, they woke about ten o'clock, Kev, went for a shower while Alice, did some toast, put the kettle on, and when he came out, she went in.}}
  • To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
  • * {{quote-book, 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, edition=1957 ed., page=, pageurl=
  • , passage=We 'did ' London to our heart's content, thanks to Fred and Frank, and were sorry to go away,
  • * {{quote-book, 1892, James Batchelder, Multum in Parvo: Notes from the Life and Travels of James Batchelder, page=97 citation
  • , passage=After doing Paris and its suburbs, I started for London
  • * {{quote-news, 1968, July 22, Ralph Schoenstein, Nice Place to Visit, New York Magazine citation
  • , passage=No tourist can get credit for seeing America first without doing New York, the Wonderful Town, the Baghdad-on-Hudson, the dream in the eye of the Kansas hooker
  • To treat in a certain way.
  • * {{quote-news, 1894, , , , Harper's citation
  • , passage=They did me well, I assure you — uncommon well: Bellinger of '84; green chartreuse fit for a prince;
  • * 1928 , , "The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers", in (Lord Peter Views the Body) ,
  • Upon my word, although he [my host] certainly did me uncommonly well, I began to feel I'd be more at ease among the bushmen.
  • * {{quote-book, 1994, Jervey Tervalon, Understand This, page=50 citation
  • , passage="Why you gonna do me like that?" I ask. "Do what?" "Dog me."}}
  • To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
  • * Bible, 2 Kings xvii. 34
  • They fear not the Lord, neither do they after the law and commandment.
  • To spend (time) in jail.
  • To impersonate or depict.
  • (slang) To kill.
  • * '>citation
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, E.J. Churchill, page=153, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=ytW6LcwIrXQC&pg=PA153, The Lazarus Code
  • , passage=The order came and I did him right there. The bullet went right where it was supposed to go.}}
  • (slang) To have sex with. (See also do it )
  • * {{quote-book, c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, section=Act IV, scene II, pageurl=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_Titus_Andronicus
  • , passage=Demetrius'': "Villain, what hast thou done?"
    ''Aaron'': "That which thou canst not undo."
    ''Chiron'': "Thou hast undone our mother."
    ''Aaron
    : "Villain, I have done thy mother."}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1996, James Russell Kincaid, My Secret Life, page=81, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=q2cQiUtWftwC&pg=PA82
  • , passage=
  • * {{quote-book, 2008, On the Line, Donna Hill, page=84 citation
  • , passage=The uninhibited woman within wanted to do him right there on the countertop, but I remained composed.}}
  • To cheat or swindle.
  • * De Quincey
  • He was not to be done , at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent.
  • To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
  • (intransitive) To finish.
  • (UK, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for ).
  • * 1915 , Frank Thomas Bullen, Recollections
  • I've left my key in my office in Manchester, my family are at Bournemouth, and the old woman who does for me goes home at nine o'clock.
  • (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
  • * 1844 , William Barnes, Evenén in the Village , Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect:
  • ...An' the dogs do''' bark, an' the rooks be a-vled to the elems high and dark, an' the water '''do roar at mill.
  • (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
  • (informal) To make or provide.
  • Do they do haircuts there?
    Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
    Usage notes
    * In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use and verbs had a distinct second-person singular present-tense form, the verb .
    Antonyms
    * don't
    Derived terms
    * can do with * do a… * doable * do by * do by halves * do down * doer * do for * do in * do it * do right by * done * do-over * do somebody wrong * do the trick * do time * do up * do well by doing good * do with mirrors * do without * fordo * misdo * redo * overdo * to do with * underdo * undo
    See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
  • We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
  • * 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems''' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]
  • After a load of photos and what-not, we descend the world's longest escalator, which are called that even as they de-escalate, and in we go to the main forum, a high ceilinged hall, full of circular cloth-draped, numbered tables, a stage at the front, the letters GQ, 12-foot high in neon at the back; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do , in an opera house full of folk in tuxes.
  • (informal) A hairdo.
  • Nice do !
  • (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument. (rfex)
  • Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts ).
  • (obsolete) A deed; an act.
  • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do
  • * Selden
  • A great deal of do , and a great deal of trouble.
  • (obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
  • Synonyms
    * (period of confusion or argument) to-do * get-together
    Usage notes
    For the plural of the noun, the spelling is often used for the sake of legibility, but is sometimes considered incorrect. For the party, the term is generally used only by older adults and usually implies a social function of modest size and formality.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) do.

    Alternative forms

    * doh

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) A syllable used in to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
  • Synonyms
    * ut (archaic)

    See also

    (names for musical notes) * fa * la * mi * re * so * ti

    Etymology 3

    Short for ditto.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (rare)
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