Hit vs. Heat
Difference Between Hit and Heat
Hitverb
To come into contact with forcefully; strike
The car hit the guardrail.Heatnoun
A form of energy associated with the kinetic energy of atoms or molecules and capable of being transmitted through solid and fluid media by conduction, through fluid media by convection, and through empty space by radiation.
Hitverb
To cause to come into contact
She hit her hand against the wall.Heatnoun
The transfer of energy from one body to another as a result of a difference in temperature or a change in phase.
Hitverb
To deal a blow to
He hit the punching bag.Heatnoun
The sensation or perception of such energy as warmth or hotness.
Hitverb
To cause an implement or missile to come forcefully into contact with
hit the nail with a hammer.Heatnoun
An abnormally high bodily temperature, as from a fever.
Hitverb
To press or push (a key or button, for example)
hit the return key by mistake.Heatnoun
The condition of being hot.
Hitverb
To reach with a propelled ball or puck
hit the running back with a pass.Heatnoun
A degree of warmth or hotness
The burner was on low heat.Hitverb
To score in this way
She hit the winning basket.Heatnoun
The warming of a room or building by a furnace or another source of energy
The house was cheap to rent, but the heat was expensive.Hitverb
To perform (a shot or maneuver) successfully
couldn't hit the jump shot.Heatnoun
A furnace or other source of warmth in a room or building
The heat was on when we returned from work.Hitverb
To propel with a stroke or blow
hit the ball onto the green.Heatnoun
A hot season; a spell of hot weather.
Hitverb
To execute (a base hit) successfully
hit a single.Heatnoun
Intensity, as of passion, emotion, color, appearance, or effect.
Hitverb
To bat against (a pitcher or kind of pitch) successfully
can't hit a slider.Heatnoun
The most intense or active stage
the heat of battle.Hitverb
To affect, especially adversely
The company was hit hard by the recession. Influenza hit the elderly the hardest.Heatnoun
A burning sensation in the mouth produced by spicy flavoring in food.
Hitverb
To be affected by (a negative development)
Their marriage hit a bad patch.Heatnoun
Estrus.
Hitverb
To win (a prize, for example), especially in a lottery.
Heatnoun
One of a series of efforts or attempts.
Hitverb
To arise suddenly in the mind of; occur to
It finally hit him that she might be his long-lost sister.Heatnoun
Sports & Games One round of several in a competition, such as a race.
Hitverb
(Informal) To go to or arrive at
We hit the beach early.Heatnoun
A preliminary contest held to determine finalists.
Hitverb
(Informal) To attain or reach
Monthly sales hit a new high. She hit 40 on her last birthday.Heatnoun
(Informal) Pressure; stress.
Hitverb
To produce or represent accurately
trying to hit the right note.Heatnoun
An intensification of police activity in pursuing criminals.
Hitverb
(Games) To deal cards to.
Heatnoun
The police. Used with the.
Hitverb
(Sports) To bite on or take (bait or a lure). Used of a fish.
Heatnoun
(Slang) Adverse comments or hostile criticism
Heat from the press forced the senator to resign.Hitverb
To strike or deal a blow.
Heatnoun
(Slang) A firearm, especially a pistol.
Hitverb
To come into contact with something; collide.
Heatverb
To make warm or hot.
Hitverb
To attack
The raiders hit at dawn.Heatverb
To excite the feelings of; inflame.
Hitverb
To happen or occur
The storm hit without warning.Heatverb
(Physics) To increase the heat energy of (an object).
Hitverb
To achieve or find something desired or sought
finally hit on the answer.hit upon a solution to the problem.Heatverb
To become warm or hot.
Hitverb
(Baseball) To bat or bat well
Their slugger hasn't been hitting lately.Heatverb
To become excited emotionally or intellectually.
Hitverb
(Sports) To score by shooting, especially in basketball
hit on 7 of 8 shots.Heatnoun
(uncountable) Thermal energy.
This furnace puts out 5000 BTUs of heat.That engine is really throwing off some heat.Removal of heat from the liquid caused it to turn into a solid.Hitverb
To ignite a mixture of air and fuel in the cylinders. Used of an internal-combustion engine.
Heatnoun
(uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
Stay out of the heat of the sun!Hitnoun
A collision or impact.
Heatnoun
(uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
The chili sauce gave the dish heat.Hitnoun
A successfully executed shot, blow, thrust, or throw.
Heatnoun
(uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
It's easy to make bad decisions in the heat of the moment.Hitnoun
(Sports) A deliberate collision with an opponent, such as a body check in ice hockey.
Heatnoun
(uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
The heat from her family after her DUI arrest was unbearable.Hitnoun
A successful or popular venture
a Broadway hit.Heatnoun
The police.
The heat! Scram!Hitnoun
A match of data in a search string against data that one is searching.
Heatnoun
One or more firearms.
Hitnoun
A connection made to a website over the internet or another network
Our company's website gets about 250,000 hits daily.Heatnoun
A fastball.
The catcher called for the heat, high and tight.Hitnoun
An apt or effective remark.
Heatnoun
(uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
The male canines were attracted by the female in heat.Hitnoun
Abbr. H(Baseball) A base hit.
Heatnoun
(countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
The runner had high hopes, but was out of contention after the first heat.Hitnoun
A dose of a narcotic drug.
Heatnoun
(countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
I can make a scroll like that in a single heat.Hitnoun
A puff of a cigarette or a pipe.
Heatnoun
(countable) A hot spell.
The children stayed indoors during this year's summer heat.Hitnoun
(Slang) A murder planned and carried out usually by a member of an underworld syndicate.
Heatnoun
(uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
I'm freezing; could you turn on the heat?Hitverb
To strike.
Heatnoun
(uncountable) The output of a heating system.
During the power outage we had no heat because the controls are electric.Older folks like more heat than the young.Hitverb
(transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
One boy hit the other.Heatnoun
In omegaverse fan fiction, a cyclical period in which alphas and omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
Hitverb
(transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
The ball hit the fence.Heatverb
(transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot often with "up".
I'll heat up the water.Hitverb
(intransitive) To strike against something.
Heatverb
(intransitive) To become hotter.
There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.Hitverb
To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.Heatverb
To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
Hitverb
To attack, especially amphibiously.
If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.Heatverb
To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
Hitverb
To briefly visit.
We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.Heatverb
To arouse, to excite (sexually).
The massage heated her up.Hitverb
To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.Heatnoun
a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
Hitverb
(heading) To attain, to achieve.
Heatnoun
the presence of heat
Hitverb
To reach or achieve.
I hit the jackpot.The movie hits theaters in December.The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night.Heatnoun
the sensation caused by heat energy
Hitverb
(intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
Heatnoun
intense passion or emotion
Hitverb
To guess; to light upon or discover.
Heatnoun
applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
Hitverb
(transitive) To affect negatively.
The economy was hit by a recession.The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.Heatnoun
a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race
Hitverb
(metaphorically) To attack.
Heatnoun
utility to warm a building;
the heating system wasn't workingthey have radiant heatingHitverb
To make a play.
Heatverb
make hot or hotter;
heat the soupHitverb
In blackjack, to deal a card to.
Hit me.Heatverb
provide with heat;
heat the houseHitverb
To come up to bat.
Jones hit for the pitcher.Heatverb
arouse or excite feelings and passions;
The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poorThe refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the worldWake old feelings of hatredHitverb
(backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
Heatverb
gain heat or get hot;
The room heated up quicklyHitverb
To use; to connect to.
The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.Hitverb
To have sex with.
I'd hit that.Hitverb
To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
Hitnoun
A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
The hit was very slight.Hitnoun
Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
Hitnoun
An attack on a location, person or people.
Hitnoun
In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
Hitnoun
A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
Hitnoun
(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.Hitnoun
An approximately correct answer in a test set.
Hitnoun
(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.Hitnoun
(colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
Where am I going to get my next hit?Hitnoun
A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
Hitnoun
(dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
a happy hitHitnoun
(backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
Hitnoun
(backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
Hitadjective
Very successful.
The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.Hitpronoun
(dialectal) It.
Hitnoun
(baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball);
he came all the way around on Williams' hitHitnoun
the act of contacting one thing with another;
repeated hitting raised a large bruiseafter three misses she finally got a hitHitnoun
a conspicuous success;
that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his careerthat new Broadway show is a real smasherthe party went with a bangHitnoun
(physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together;
the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of directionHitnoun
a dose of a narcotic drug
Hitnoun
a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate;
it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hitHitnoun
a connection made via the internet to another website;
WordNet gets many hits from users worldwideHitverb
cause to move by striking;
hit a ballHitverb
hit against; come into sudden contact with;
The car hit a treeHe struck the table with his elbowHitverb
affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely;
We were hit by really bad weatherHe was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenagerThe earthquake struck at midnightHitverb
deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument;
He hit her hard in the faceHitverb
reach a destination, either real or abstract;
We hit Detroit by noonThe water reached the doorstepWe barely made it to the finish lineI have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend startsHitverb
reach a point in time, or a certain state or level;
The thermometer hit 100 degreesThis car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hourHitverb
hit with a missile from a weapon
Hitverb
cause to experience suddenly;
Panic struck meAn interesting idea hit herA thought came to meThe thought struck terror in our mindsThey were struck with fearHitverb
make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target;
The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939We must strike the enemy's oil fieldsin the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2Hitverb
hit the intended target or goal
Hitverb
produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically;
The pianist strikes a middle Cstrike `z' on the keyboardher comments struck a sour noteHitverb
encounter by chance;
I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurantHitverb
gain points in a game;
The home team scored many timesHe hit a home runHe hit .300 in the past seasonHitverb
consume to excess;
hit the bottleHitverb
kill intentionally and with premeditation;
The mafia boss ordered his enemies murderedHitverb
drive something violently into a location;
he hit his fist on the tableshe struck her head on the low ceilingHitverb
pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to;
He tries to hit on women in bars
