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Striking   /strˈaɪkɪŋ/   Listen
Striking

adjective
1.
Sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect.  Synonyms: dramatic, spectacular.  "A dramatic pause" , "A spectacular display of northern lights" , "It was a spectacular play" , "His striking good looks always created a sensation"
2.
Having a quality that thrusts itself into attention.  Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular.  "A new theory is the most prominent feature of the book" , "Salient traits" , "A spectacular rise in prices" , "A striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center" , "A striking resemblance between parent and child"
noun
1.
The physical coming together of two or more things.  Synonyms: contact, impinging.
2.
The act of contacting one thing with another.  Synonyms: hit, hitting.  "After three misses she finally got a hit"


Strike

verb
(past & past part. struck; pres. part. striking)
1.
Deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.  "The opponent refused to strike" , "The boxer struck the attacker dead"
2.
Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.  Synonyms: affect, impress, move.  "This behavior struck me as odd"
3.
Hit against; come into sudden contact with.  Synonyms: collide with, hit, impinge on, run into.  "He struck the table with his elbow"  Antonym: miss.
4.
Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target.  Synonym: hit.  "We must strike the enemy's oil fields" , "In the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2"
5.
Indicate (a certain time) by striking.  "Just when I entered, the clock struck"
6.
Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely.  Synonym: hit.  "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager" , "The earthquake struck at midnight"
7.
Stop work in order to press demands.  Synonym: walk out.  "The employees walked out when their demand for better benefits was not met"
8.
Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly.  Synonyms: fall, shine.  "The sun shone on the fields" , "The light struck the golden necklace" , "A strange sound struck my ears"
9.
Attain.  Synonym: come to.
10.
Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically.  Synonym: hit.  "Strike 'z' on the keyboard" , "Her comments struck a sour note"
11.
Cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp.
12.
Find unexpectedly.  Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, discover, fall upon, happen upon, light upon.  "She struck a goldmine" , "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"
13.
Produce by ignition or a blow.  "Strike a match"
14.
Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line.  Synonyms: excise, expunge, scratch.  "Scratch that remark"
15.
Cause to experience suddenly.  Synonyms: come to, hit.  "An interesting idea hit her" , "A thought came to me" , "The thought struck terror in our minds" , "They were struck with fear"
16.
Drive something violently into a location.  Synonym: hit.  "She struck her head on the low ceiling"
17.
Occupy or take on.  Synonyms: assume, take, take up.  "She took her seat on the stage" , "We took our seats in the orchestra" , "She took up her position behind the tree" , "Strike a pose"
18.
Form by stamping, punching, or printing.  Synonyms: coin, mint.  "Strike a medal"
19.
Smooth with a strickle.  Synonym: strickle.
20.
Pierce with force.  "The icy wind struck through our coats"
21.
Arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing.  "Strike a bargain"



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... be that Mr. Yeats will one day overcome the difficulties that he alludes to here, but he is now forty-seven, and I, for one, doubt if, at his age, he can overcome them. As they are, his plays are beautiful in ideas and words, and striking in a lyric and decorative way, if not all of them in a dramatic way, though in some he has in vain sacrificed poetry to attain true dramatic speech attaining instead only "rhetoric and logic and dry circumstance." One values the plays of Mr. Yeats highest ...
— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt
... her duty to herself. To Mr. DE CAMP'S judgement and full conception of Isidore; to Mr. POPE'S accurate representation of the partial, yet honourable Father; to Mr. ELLISTON'S energy in the character of ALVAR, and who in more than one instance gave it beauties and striking points, which not only delighted but surprised me; and to Mr. RAE[815:1], to whose zeal, and unwearied study of his part, I am not less indebted as a Man, than to his impassioned realization of ORDONIO, as an Author;——to ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... towns. So long as it was conducive to the pleasures of the manorial lord to keep large tracts of land uncultivated, it was contrary to his interests to form great thoroughfares. We have in the 'Tesoretto' of Brunetto a striking picture of the desolation of northern Spain in the thirteenth century. He thus describes his journey ...
— Old Roads and New Roads • William Bodham Donne
... simple, undisguised, and intelligible, that they may become fit subjects for the approbation or animadversion of the people. The bill authorizing a subscription to the Louisville and Portland Canal affords a striking illustration of the difficulty of withholding additional appropriations for the same object when the first erroneous step has been taken by instituting a partnership between the Government and private companies. It proposes a third subscription on the part of the United States, when ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, - Vol. 2, Part 3, Andrew Jackson, 1st term • Edited by James D. Richardson
... schoolhouse are on four acres of land immediately adjoining ours. The church is roomy, well-seated, ceiled and painted, in striking contrast with most of those in the country districts of the South. The schoolhouse has two rooms, and is but partially ceiled, though it is nicely weather-boarded. The school is regularly conducted for five months each year, and part of the time has two teachers. Mr. J. C. Calloway, a Tuskegee ...
— Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements • Various


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