Definition/Meaning of strike

• English - Verb: strike (third-person singular simple present strikes, present participle striking, simple past struck or (nonstandard) striked or (all obsolete) strook or stroke or strake, past participle struck or (see usage notes) stricken or (both obsolete) strucken or striken or strook) (sometimes, transitive, with out or through) To delete or cross out ; to scratch or eliminate . Please strike the last…
• English - Noun: strike (plural strikes) A status result ing from a batter swing ing and miss ing a pitch , or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone , or hit ting a foul ball that is not caught . 1996, Lyle Lovett, “Her First Mistake”, in The Road to Ensenada: It was then I knew I had made my third mistake. Yes, three strikes right across the plate, and as I hollered "Honey, please wait"…
• English - Anagrams: trikes
• English - Etymology: From Middle English stryken , from Old English strīcan , from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan, from Proto-Germanic *strīkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”). Cognate with Dutch strijken , German streichen , Danish stryge , Icelandic strýkja , strýkva .
• English - Pronunciation: (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /stɹaɪk/ IPA: /stiː.ɹaɪk/ , [stiː.ɹ̠ʌɪ̯k(ʰ)] Rhymes: -aɪk