What is the difference between strike and kick?
strike | kick |
To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
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To have a sharp or sudden effect.
#(lb) To hit.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
#*:He at Philippi kept / His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck / The lean and wrinkled Cassius.
#(lb) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
#*(Bible), (w) xii.7:
#*:They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts.
#*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
#*:Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.
#(lb) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
#*:Strike now, or else the iron cools.
#(lb) To manufacture, as by stamping.
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# To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded.
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#(lb) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
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#(lb) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
#*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
#*:A deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
#(lb) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
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#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:Waving wide her myrtle wand, / She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
#(lb) To cause to ignite by friction.
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(lb) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
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To have a sharp or severe effect.
#(lb) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
#*(Bible), Proverbs xvii.26:
#*:To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity.
#(lb) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
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#*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
#(lb) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
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# To impinge upon.
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#(lb) To stop working to achieve better working conditions.
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#(lb) To impress, seem or appear (to).
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#*1895 , , (The Time Machine) , Ch.X:
#*:I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.
#(lb) To create an impression.
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# To take forcibly or fraudulently.
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#To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
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#*(Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
#*:Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the first view.
#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
#*:They please as beauties, here as wonders strike .
#To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
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# To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.
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To touch; to act by appulse.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Hinder light but from striking on it [porphyry], and its colours vanish.
To take down, especially in the following contexts.
#(lb) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
##(lb) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
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##*(w) (1643-1715)
##*:The English ships of war should not strike in the Danish seas.
#To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
#*1851 , (Herman Melville), (w) , :
#*:“Strike' the tent there!”—was the next order. As I hinted before, this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order to ' strike the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.
(lb) To set off on a walk or trip.
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, title= (lb) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
*(Bible), (w) vii.23:
*:till a dart strike through his liver
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem.
(lb) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into .
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(lb) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
To make and ratify.
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To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
(lb) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
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To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
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To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
*(Bible), 2 (w) v.11:
*:Behold, I thought, He willstrike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
(lb) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:well struck in years
To balance (a ledger or account).
(baseball) 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
(bowling) the act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame
a work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest
a blow or application of physical force against something
(finance) 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.
(cricket) the status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at
:* The batsmen have crossed, and Dhoni now has the strike .
the primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen
(geology) the compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
(obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
* Sir Walter Scott
An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
(ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
(obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
The discovery of a source of something.
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(Webster 1913)
To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
* 1877 , , Chapter 1: My Early Home,
* 1895 , , Chapter XII: Friends and Foes,
* 1905 , , Chapter 6,
* 1919 , , The Teacher: concerning Kate Swift,
To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
* 1904 , , Chapter II: Rope Jumping, and What Followed,
To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
* 1905 , , Chapter 7,
To eject summarily.
* 1936 October,
* 1976 February 3, ,
(Internet) To remove a participant from an online activity.
(slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free onself of (a problem).
To move or push suddenly and violently.
* 2011 , Tom Andry,
(of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
* 2003 , Jennifer C. D. Groomes, The Falcon Project ,
* 2006 , Daniel D. Scherschel, Maple Grove ,
A hit or strike with the leg or foot or knee.
* 1890 , , Chapter VII: A Raid on the Stable-Beer Dives,
* 2011 , Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15195384.stm]
The action of swinging a foot or leg.
(colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
(Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed causes a video game character to kick.
(figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
(uncountable, and, countable) piquancy
* 2002 , Ellen and Michael Albertson, Temptations , , ISBN 0743229800, page 124 [http://books.google.com/books?id=cITFVpz2ri8C&pg=PA124&dq=kick]:
* 2003 , Sheree Bykofsky and Megan Buckley, Sexy City Cocktails , , ISBN 1580629172, page 129 [http://books.google.com/books?id=GBO9qF3uXYUC&pg=PA129&dq=kick]:
* 2007 August 27, , volume 83, Issues 22-28
A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
(soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
(soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
a recoil of a gun.
(informal) pocket
An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
(chess) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
In transitive terms the difference between strike and kick
is that strike is to create an impression while kick is to direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.In intransitive terms the difference between strike and kick
is that strike is to become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters while kick is to make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.As verbs the difference between strike and kick
is that strike is to delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate while kick is to strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.As nouns the difference between strike and kick
is that strike is 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 while kick is a hit or strike with the leg or foot or knee.strike
English
Verb
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Usage notes
Custom influences which participle is used in set phrases and specific contexts, but in general, the past participle "struck" is more common when speaking of intransitive actions (e.g. He'd struck it rich'', or ''He's struck out on his own'', etc.), while "stricken" is more commonly used for transitive actions, especially constructions where the subject is the object of an implied action (e.g. ''The Court has stricken the statement from the record'', or ''The city was stricken with disease , etc.)Derived terms
* striking distanceSee also
* strike a balance * strike down * strike gold * strike out baseball and slangNoun
(en noun)- Three hogsheads of ale of the first strike .
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
Antonyms
* (work stoppage) industrial peace; lockoutDerived terms
* checkerboard strike * hunger strike * general strike * rent strike * sit-down strike * striker * strike out * wildcat strikekick
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . See (l).Verb
(en verb)- Did you kick your brother?
- Sometimes we had rather rough play, for they would frequently bite and kick as well as gallop.
- I was cuffed by the women and kicked by the men because I would not swallow it.
- A punt is made by letting the ball drop from the hands and kicking it just before it touches the ground.
- Will Henderson, who had on a light overcoat and no overshoes, kicked the heel of his left foot with the toe of the right.
- He enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching the kickline kick .
- "If you did that, I'd kick'," answered Freddie, and began to ' kick real hard into the air.
- Kick the ball into the goal.
- Sometimes he can kick' the ball forward along the ground until it is ' kicked in goal, where he can fall on it for a touchdown.
- "He's been mad at me ever since I fired him off'n my payroll. After I kicked him off'n my ranch he run for sheriff, and the night of the election everybody was so drunk they voted for him by mistake, or for a joke, or somethin', and since he's been in office he's been lettin' the sheepmen steal me right out of house and home."
- They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
- He was kicked by ChanServ for flooding.
- By taking that medication, he managed to get his triggered phobia of heights kicked .
- I still smoke, but they keep telling me to kick the habit.
- He was kicked sideways by the force of the blast.
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- The back of the car kicked out violently, forcing me to steer into the slide and accelerate in order to maintain control.
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- Lying on the ground, when fired, it kicked me back a foot. There was no way a person my size was going to be able to do an effective job with this gun.
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- I asked my sister Jeanette if she wanted to shoot the 12 ga. shotgun. She replied, "does it kick "?
Descendants
* German: (l)Noun
(en noun)- A kick to the knee.
- A kick of his boot-heel sent the door flying into the room.
- Elsad Zverotic gave Montenegro hope with a goal with the last kick of the first half - and when Rooney was deservedly shown red by referee Wolfgang Stark, England were placed under pressure they could not survive.
- The ballerina did a high kick and a leap.
- I finally saw the show. What a kick !
- I think I sprained something on my latest exercise kick .
- The car had a nasty kick the whole way.
- The pool ball took a wild kick , up off the table.
- Add a little cascabel pepper to ordinary tomato sauce to give it a kick .
- For extra kick , hollow out a lime, float it on top of the drink, and fill it with tequila.
- The first time I saw "Deep Water," the trace of mystery in the Crowhurst affair gave the movie a kick of excitement.
- a long kick up the field.