Strike vs Light - What's the difference?
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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)
(uncountable) The natural medium emanating from the Sun and other very hot sources (now recognised as electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of 400-750 nm), within which vision is possible.
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, title= A source of illumination.
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, title= Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
* Shakespeare
Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
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A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
* Tennyson
(painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade .
A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
* South
A flame or something used to create fire.
A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
A window, or space for a window in architecture.
The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
(informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
* Shakespeare
The power of perception by vision.
* Bible, Psalms xxxviii. 10
The brightness of the eye or eyes.
* Shakespeare
A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one.
To start (a fire).
To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
* Hakewill
* Addison
To illuminate.
* F. Harrison
* Dryden
To become ignited; to take fire.
To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
* Landor
Having light.
Pale in colour.
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, title= (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
Of low weight; not heavy.
* Addison
Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
(senseid)Gentle; having little force or momentum.
Easy to endure or perform.
* Dryden
Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
travelling with no carriages, wagons attached
(obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
* Francis Bacon
(dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
* Tillotson
Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
* Shakespeare
* Hawthorne
Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
* Shakespeare
Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
Carrying little.
(nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
* Spenser
To find by chance.
(archaic) To alight.
As a verb strike
is to delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.As a noun strike
is (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.As a proper noun light is
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Verb
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
Stoke 0-2 Fulham, passage=Defender Chris Baird struck twice early in the first half to help Fulham move out of the relegation zone and ease the pressure on manager Mark Hughes.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
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 strikelight
English
Alternative forms
* lite (informal); lyght, lyghte (obsolete) * (l) (Scotland)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia light) (en noun)citation, passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light .}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light' to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of ' light in the villages.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights , […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
- He shall never know / That I had any light of this from thee.
- Now these notions are twofold, actions or habits […], which are durable lights and notions, which we may use when we will.
- Joan of Arc, a light of ancient France
- Frequent consideration of a thing shows it in its several lights and various ways of appearance.
- a Bengal light
- The duke yet would have dark deeds darkly answered; he would never bring them to light .
- My strength faileth me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
- He seemed to find his way without his eyes; / For out o'door he went without their helps, / And, to the last, bended their light on me.
Synonyms
* (electromagnetic wave perceived by the eye) visible lightDerived terms
* ancient lights * black light * booklight * bring to light * come to light * fanlight * footlight * gaslight * half-light * headlight * hide one's light under a bushel * lamplight * light at the end of the tunnel * light box, lightbox * light bucket * light globe * Light of the World * lightbulb * lighthouse * ! * moonlight * nightlight * searchlight * see the light * skylight * spotlight * strike a light * sunlight * twilight * Very light * white lightEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- We lit the fire to get some heat.
- She lit her last match.
- if a thousand candles be all lighted from one
- Absence might cure it, or a second mistress / Light up another flame, and put out this.
- I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.
- One hundred years ago, to have lit' this theatre as brilliantly as it is now ' lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds.
- The Sun has set, and Vesper, to supply / His absent beams, has lighted up the sky.
- This soggy match will not light .
- His bishops lead him forth, and light him on.
Synonyms
* ignite, kindle, conflagrate * (illuminate) illuminate, light upAntonyms
* extinguish, put out, quenchDerived terms
* light someone's fire * light up * highlightEtymology 3
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Adjective
(er)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the Sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
Synonyms
* (having light) bright * (pale in colour) pale * : white, with milk, with creamDerived terms
* light-haired * light-skinnedEtymology 4
From (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- My bag was much lighter once I had dropped off the books.
- These weights did not exert their natural gravity insomuch that I could not guess which was light or heavy whilst I held them in my hand.
- We took a light aircraft down to the city.
- This artist clearly had a light , flowing touch.
- light duties around the house
- Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
- This light beer still gets you drunk if you have enough of it.
- I made some light comment, and we moved on.
- Long after lay he musing at her mood, / Much grieu'd to thinke that gentle Dame so light , / For whose defence he was to shed his blood.
- So do not you; for you are a light girl.
- A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
- light''' troops; a troop of '''light horse
- Unmarried men are best friends, best masters but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away.
- a light''', vain person; a '''light mind
- There is no greater argument of a light and inconsiderate person than profanely to scoff at religion.
- Seneca can not be too heavy, nor Plautus too light .
- specimens of New England humour laboriously light and lamentably mirthful
- Are his wits safe? Is he not light of brain?
- light coin
Synonyms
* (of low weight) * (lightly-built) lightweight * (having little force or momentum) delicate, gentle, soft * lite, lo-cal (low in calories), low-alcohol (low in alcohol) * (having little value or significance) inconsequential, trivial, unimportantAntonyms
* (of low weight) heavy, weighty * (lightly-built) cumbersome, heavyweight, massive * (having little force or momentum) forceful, heavy, strong * calorific (high in calories), fatty (high in fat), strong (high in alcohol) * (having little value or significance) crucial, important, weightyDerived terms
* light as a feather * lightnessAdverb
(er)- I prefer to travel light.
Verb
(en verb)- His mailèd habergeon she did undight, / And from his head his heavy burgonet did light .
Derived terms
* lighterEtymology 5
(etyl)Verb
- I lit upon a rare book in a second-hand bookseller's.
- She fell out of the window but luckily lit on her feet.