The difference between Hit and Miss

When used as nouns, hit means a blow, whereas miss means a failure to hit.

When used as verbs, hit means to administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile, whereas miss means to fail to hit.


Hit is also pronoun with the meaning: ..

Hit is also adjective with the meaning: very successful.

check bellow for the other definitions of Hit and Miss

  1. Hit as a verb (physical):

    To strike. To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile. To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly. To strike against something. To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party. To attack, especially amphibiously.

    Examples:

    "One boy hit the other."

    "The ball hit the fence."

    "'Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river."

    "If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island."

  2. Hit as a verb (transitive, colloquial):

    To briefly visit.

    Examples:

    "We hit the grocery store on the way to the park."

  3. Hit as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.

    Examples:

    "You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend nowrap too late.  nowrap We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies."

  4. Hit as a verb:

    To attain, to achieve. To reach or achieve. To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck. To guess; to light upon or discover.

    Examples:

    "I hit the jackpot.  The movie hits theaters nowrap in December.  nowrap The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.  nowrap We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night."

  5. Hit as a verb (transitive):

    To affect negatively.

    Examples:

    "The economy was hit by a recession.  nowrap The hurricane hit his fishing business hard."

  6. Hit as a verb (games):

    To make a play. In blackjack, to deal a card to. To come up to bat. To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

    Examples:

    "'Hit me."

    "Jones hit for the pitcher."

  7. Hit as a verb (transitive, computing, programming):

    To use; to connect to.

    Examples:

    "The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3."

  8. Hit as a verb (transitive, US, slang):

    To have sex with.

    Examples:

    "I'd hit that."

  9. Hit as a verb (transitive, US, slang):

    To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.

  1. Hit as a noun:

    A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

    Examples:

    "The hit was very slight."

  2. Hit as a noun:

    Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.

  3. Hit as a noun:

    An attack on a location, person or people. In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.

  4. Hit as a noun (computing, Internet):

    The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine

  5. Hit as a noun (Internet):

    A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

    Examples:

    "My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a [[search engine]]."

  6. Hit as a noun:

    An approximately correct answer in a test set.

  7. Hit as a noun (baseball):

    The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder's choice.

    Examples:

    "The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth."

  8. Hit as a noun (colloquial):

    A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

    Examples:

    "Where am I going to get my next hit?"

  9. Hit as a noun:

    A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.

  10. Hit as a noun (dated):

    A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

    Examples:

    "a happy hit"

  11. Hit as a noun (backgammon):

    A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.

  12. Hit as a noun (backgammon):

    A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

  1. Hit as an adjective:

    Very successful.

    Examples:

    "The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans."

  1. Hit as a pronoun (dialectal):

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  1. Miss as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To fail to hit.

    Examples:

    "I missed the target."

    "I tried to kick the ball, but missed."

  2. Miss as a verb (transitive):

    To fail to achieve or attain.

    Examples:

    "to miss an opportunity"

  3. Miss as a verb (transitive):

    To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.

    Examples:

    "I miss you! Come home soon!"

  4. Miss as a verb (transitive):

    To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.

    Examples:

    "miss the joke"

  5. Miss as a verb (transitive):

    To fail to attend.

    Examples:

    "Joe missed the meeting this morning."

  6. Miss as a verb (transitive):

    To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).

    Examples:

    "I missed the plane!"

  7. Miss as a verb (only in present tense):

    To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.

    Examples:

    "The car is missing essential features."

  8. Miss as a verb (poker, said of a card):

    To fail to help the hand of a player.

    Examples:

    "Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!"

  9. Miss as a verb (sports):

    To fail to score (a goal).

  10. Miss as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To go wrong; to err.

  11. Miss as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

  1. Miss as a noun:

    A failure to hit.

  2. Miss as a noun:

    A failure to obtain or accomplish.

  3. Miss as a noun:

    An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).

    Examples:

    "I think I’ll give the meeting a miss."

  4. Miss as a noun (computing):

    The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.

  1. Miss as a noun:

    A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.

    Examples:

    "You may sit here, miss."

    "You may sit here, Miss Jones."

  2. Miss as a noun:

    An unmarried woman; a girl.

  3. Miss as a noun:

    A kept woman; a mistress.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Evelyn"

  4. Miss as a noun (card games):

    In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.

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