The difference between Hit and Stroke

When used as nouns, hit means a blow, whereas stroke means an act of stroking .

When used as verbs, hit means to administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile, whereas stroke means to move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.

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 Stroke

  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):

    .

  1. Stroke as a noun:

    An act of stroking .

    Examples:

    "She gave the cat a stroke."

  2. Stroke as a noun:

    A blow or hit.

    Examples:

    "a stroke on the chin"

  3. Stroke as a noun (golf):

    A single movement with a tool. A single act of striking at the ball with a club. The hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact. The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the vessel or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull. The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot. A thrust of a piston. An act of striking with a weapon

  4. Stroke as a noun:

    One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.

    Examples:

    "the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or of an oar in rowing"

    "the stroke of a skater, swimmer, etc."

  5. Stroke as a noun:

    A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort.

    Examples:

    "a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy"

  6. Stroke as a noun (linguistics):

    A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement, particularly: The slash, /. The formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in A̶ and A̵). A line of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character.

  7. Stroke as a noun:

    A streak made with a brush.

  8. Stroke as a noun:

    The time when a clock strikes.

    Examples:

    "on the stroke of midnight"

  9. Stroke as a noun (swimming):

    A style, a single movement within a style.

    Examples:

    "butterfly stroke'"

  10. Stroke as a noun (medicine):

    The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.

  11. Stroke as a noun (obsolete):

    A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.

    Examples:

    "a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death"

  12. Stroke as a noun (rowing):

    The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.

  13. Stroke as a noun (rowing):

    The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.

  14. Stroke as a noun ([[professional wrestling]]):

    Backstage influence.

  15. Stroke as a noun (squash):

    A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.

  16. Stroke as a noun (sciences):

    An individual discharge of lightning.

    Examples:

    "A flash of lightning may be made up of several strokes. If they are separated by enough time for the eye to distinguish them, the lightning will appear to flicker."

  17. Stroke as a noun (obsolete):

    The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.

  18. Stroke as a noun:

    An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.

    Examples:

    "to give some finishing strokes to an essay"

    "rfquotek Addison"

  19. Stroke as a noun:

    A throb or beat, as of the heart.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Tennyson"

  20. Stroke as a noun:

    Power; influence.

  21. Stroke as a noun (obsolete):

    appetite

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Jonathan Swift"

  1. Stroke as a verb (transitive):

    To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.

  2. Stroke as a verb (transitive, cricket):

    To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.

  3. Stroke as a verb (masonry):

    To give a finely fluted surface to.

  4. Stroke as a verb (transitive, rowing):

    To row the stroke oar of.

    Examples:

    "to stroke a boat"

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