strike – English noun declension

English noun forms of strike

Noun: strike
Singularstrike
Pluralstrikes

Sample Sentences

  • It was then I knew I had made my third mistake. Yes, three strikes right across the plate, and as I hollered "Honey, please wait" she was gone. [1996, Lyle Lovett, “Her First Mistake”, in The Road to Ensenada:]
  • Thus hand strikes now include single knuckle strikes, knife hand strikes, finger strikes, ridge hand strikes etc., and leg strikes include front kicks, knee strikes, axe kicks,[…] [1990, Chris Traish, Leigh Olsson, An Overview of Martial Arts, page 14:]
  • […] and they could hear the rough sound, could hear too the first strikes of rain as though called down by the music. [1996, Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes:]
  • He's got machine guns and hatchets and swords / And some missiles and foods with trans-fats / He will unleash mass destruction, you're dead / You just got smashed... by the ¶ Attack of the Wrath of the / War of the Death of the / Strike of the Sword of the / Blood... of the Beast [2008, Lich King (band), “Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast”, in Toxic Zombie Onslaught:]
  • air strike; first strike
  • The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel. [1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 207:]
  • The batsmen have crossed, and Dhoni now has the strike.
  • a strike of malt; a strike of coin
  • […]our cellarer shall have orders to deliver to thee a butt of sack, a runlet of Malvesie, and three hogsheads of ale of the first strike, yearly—If that will not quench thy thirst, thou must come to court, and become acquainted with my butler. [1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter X, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 266–267:]
  • The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). [2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:]
  • I must admit that my focus was divided, which limited my fishing success. I made a few casts, then arranged my inanimate subjects and took photos. When my indicator went down on my first strike, I cleanly missed the hook up. [2014, Michael Gorman, Effective Stillwater Fly Fishing, page 87:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English stryken, from Old English strīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan, from Proto-Germanic *strīkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”).
2. Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen, Danish stryge, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva. See: Old English Nouns 'strīcan', Icelandic Nouns 'strýkja'.

Verbs referencing "strike"

Dutch Nouns strike, German Nouns Streik, Slovak Nouns štrajk, Hungarian Nouns sztrájk, Swedish Nouns strejk, Danish Nouns strejke, Russian Nouns страйк, German Nouns Strike, Zulu Nouns isiteleka.