The difference between Hit and Spike
When used as nouns, hit means a blow, whereas spike means a sort of very large nail.
When used as verbs, hit means to administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile, whereas spike means to fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
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 Spike
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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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Spike as a noun:
A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward/outward.
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Spike as a noun:
Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
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Spike as a noun:
An ear of corn or grain.
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Spike as a noun (botany):
A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
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Spike as a noun:
(in plural spikes; informal) Running shoes with spikes in the soles.
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Spike as a noun:
A sharp peak in a graph.
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Spike as a noun:
The long, narrow part of a high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
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Spike as a noun:
A long nail for storing papers and, by extension, the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
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Spike as a noun (volleyball):
An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
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Spike as a noun (zoology):
An adolescent male deer.
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Spike as a noun:
A surge in power.
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Spike as a noun:
(slang) The casual ward of a workhouse.
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Spike as a noun:
Spike lavender.
Examples:
"oil of spike"
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Spike as a noun (music, lutherie):
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Spike as a verb:
To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
Examples:
"to spike down planks"
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Spike as a verb:
To set or furnish with spikes.
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Spike as a verb:
To fix on a spike.
Examples:
"rfquotek Young"
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Spike as a verb:
To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
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Spike as a verb:
To prevent or frustrate.
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Spike as a verb:
To increase sharply.
Examples:
"Traffic accidents spiked in December when there was ice on the roads."
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Spike as a verb:
To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
Examples:
"She spiked my lemonade with vodka!"
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Spike as a verb:
To add a small amount of one substance to another.
Examples:
"The water sample to be tested has been spiked with arsenic, antimony, mercury, and lead in quantities commonly found in industrial effluents."
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Spike as a verb (volleyball):
To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
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Spike as a verb (military):
To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
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Spike as a verb (journalism):
To decide not to publish or make public.
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Spike as a verb:
(football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.