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
The form struck is the past tense and past participle. The form stricken can also be used as the past participle for meanings
A strike is called if a batter swings at a pitch and misses, or if the pitch simply passes through the strike zone The first 2 foul balls that are not caught count as first and second strike A foul ball that is not caught can never be counted as a third strike
If you strike someone or something, you deliberately hit them. She took two quick steps forward and struck him across the mouth It is impossible to say who struck the fatal blow
To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch
To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep
If you strike one thing against another, or if one thing strikes against another, the first thing hits the second thing. Wilde fell and struck his head on the stone floor My right toe struck against a submerged rock. = bang
affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight"
One of the directional properties of a geologic structure such as a fold or a fault Strike is the horizontal directional taken by an imaginary line drawn on the plane of the formation See dip