A Quick and Simple Dictionary

strike

1. Verb.  (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
2. Verb.  (transitive) To hit.
3. Verb.  (intransitive) To stop working to achieve better working conditions.
4. Verb.  (transitive) To impress, seem or appear (to).
5. Verb.  (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
6. Verb.  (transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts:.
7. Verb.  (transitive) Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
8. Verb.  (sport) To score a goal.
9. Noun.  (baseball) a status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
10. Noun.  (context, bowling) the act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
11. Noun.  a work stoppage as a form of protest.
12. Noun.  a blow or application of physical force against something.
13. Noun.  (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
14. Noun.  An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
15. Noun.  (cricket) the status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
16. Noun.  the primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.