Hit vs Shine - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between hit and shine

is that hit is to affect negatively while shine is to cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).

In intransitive terms the difference between hit and shine

is that hit is to meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck while shine is to be immediately apparent.

In lang=en terms the difference between hit and shine

is that hit is a peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark while shine is a liking for a person; a fancy.

As verbs the difference between hit and shine

is that hit is To strike.shine is to emit light.

As nouns the difference between hit and shine

is that hit is a blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything while shine is brightness from a source of light.

As a pronoun hit

is it.

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 .

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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)

Anagrams

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shine

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian skine, skyne, Low German schienen, Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Danish skinne, Swedish skina. In Middle English the most standard forms are[http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED39953]: * present: sh?nen * simple past: (singular) sh?ne'', (plural) ''sh?neden * past participle: sh?ned The form sh?ned(e)'' had already appeared as an alternative past singular at this time, although only in Northern English usage. There is no recorded use of ''sh?ne as an alternative past participle in Middle English.

Verb

To emit light.

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To reflect light.

To distinguish oneself; to excel.

* 1867 , Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend , Harper & Brothers, page 91:

“ I was grateful to you for giving him a year’s schooling—where he shined' at it—and for putting him as a clerk in your counting-house, where he ' shined still more.”

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It prompted an exchange of substitutions as Jermain Defoe replaced Palacios and Javier Hernandez came on for Berbatov, who had failed to shine against his former club.

To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.

* Spenser

So proud she shined in her princely state.

* Alexander Pope

Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.

To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.

* Jonathan Swift

Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.

To be immediately apparent.

To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).

* 2007 , David Lynn Goleman, Legend: An Event Group Thriller , St. Martin’s Press (2008), ISBN 978-0-312-94595-7, page 318:

As Jenks shined the large spotlight on the water, he saw a few bubbles and four long wakes leading away from an expanding circle of blood.

To cause to shine, as a light.

* (Francis Bacon)

He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.

(US) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.

(Bartlett)

Synonyms

* (to emit light) beam, glow, radiate * (to reflect light) gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, reflect * (to distinguish oneself) excel * (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing) wax, buff, polish, furbish, burnish

Coordinate terms

* (to emit light) beam, flash, glare, glimmer, shimmer, twinkle

Derived terms

* beshine * rise and shine * take a shine to

Noun

(-)

Brightness from a source of light.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne

the distant shine of the celestial city

Brightness from reflected light.

Excellence in quality or appearance.

Shoeshine.

Sunshine.

* Dryden

be it fair or foul, or rain or shine

(slang) Moonshine.

(cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.

(slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.

She's certainly taken a shine to you.

(archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.

Synonyms

* (brightness from a source of light) effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency * (brightness from reflected light) luster * (excellence in quality or appearance) brilliance, splendor * (shoeshine) See shoeshine * (sunshine) See sunshine * See moonshine

Derived terms

* come rain or shine * fireshine * shimmer * shiner * shininess * shiny * spitshine

Etymology 2

From the noun (shine), or perhaps continuing (etyl) schinen (preterite schinede, past participle schined), from (etyl) .

Verb

(shin)

To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).

He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.

(cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

Synonyms

* (to polish) polish, smooth, smoothen

Anagrams

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