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
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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."
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Hit as a verb (transitive, colloquial):
To briefly visit.
Examples:
"We hit the grocery store on the way to the park."
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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."
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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."
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Hit as a verb (transitive):
To affect negatively.
Examples:
"The economy was hit by a recession.  nowrap The hurricane hit his fishing business hard."
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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."
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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."
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Hit as a verb (transitive, US, slang):
To have sex with.
Examples:
"I'd hit that."
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Hit as a verb (transitive, US, slang):
To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
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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."
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Hit as a noun:
Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
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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.
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Hit as a noun (computing, Internet):
The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine
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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]]."
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Hit as a noun:
An approximately correct answer in a test set.
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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."
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Hit as a noun (colloquial):
A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
Examples:
"Where am I going to get my next hit?"
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Hit as a noun:
A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
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Hit as a noun (dated):
A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
Examples:
"a happy hit"
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Hit as a noun (backgammon):
A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
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Hit as a noun (backgammon):
A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
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Hit as an adjective:
Very successful.
Examples:
"The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans."
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Hit as a pronoun (dialectal):
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Miss as a verb (ambitransitive):
To fail to hit.
Examples:
"I missed the target."
"I tried to kick the ball, but missed."
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Miss as a verb (transitive):
To fail to achieve or attain.
Examples:
"to miss an opportunity"
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Miss as a verb (transitive):
To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.
Examples:
"I miss you! Come home soon!"
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Miss as a verb (transitive):
To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.
Examples:
"miss the joke"
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Miss as a verb (transitive):
To fail to attend.
Examples:
"Joe missed the meeting this morning."
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Miss as a verb (transitive):
To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
Examples:
"I missed the plane!"
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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."
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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!"
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Miss as a verb (sports):
To fail to score (a goal).
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Miss as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To go wrong; to err.
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Miss as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
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Miss as a noun:
A failure to hit.
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Miss as a noun:
A failure to obtain or accomplish.
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Miss as a noun:
An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).
Examples:
"I think I’ll give the meeting a miss."
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Miss as a noun (computing):
The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
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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."
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Miss as a noun:
An unmarried woman; a girl.
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Miss as a noun:
A kept woman; a mistress.
Examples:
"rfquotek Evelyn"
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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.