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slang verb (English sense 8)

Latest comment: 17 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

What about "I'd hit that"? Should it get a definition here, or is that a separate slang term? --Irrevenant 11:57, 16 May 2007‎ (UTC)Reply

Hmmm. I removed that on Nov 17th, as a nonce, but now, half a year later, it does seem more prevalent. That is, that use seems to be gaining colloquial use, not dropping off. It is very difficut to cite. But it looks to me (now) like the removal of that sense was simply an error. --Connel MacKenzie 13:54, 16 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

computing versus general visiting

Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Imo, the 7th sense should be deleted since it's only a figurative variation of sense 2 and has, hence, the same meaning. --189.1.128.81 19:37, 26 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

While the general usage is used only occasionally and as slang, in computing circles sense 7 seems to be used in more formal contexts and more often, so I think it deserves an entry to itself (or at least a sub-entry like the military 'hit' has). Arlo Barnes (talk) 19:15, 22 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

valence of 'hit'

Latest comment: 16 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

The sense - To affect negatively. is plainly wrong here... example: take the usage note The economy was hit by a recession. and replace the recession with boom (the opposite of a recession) - negativity is lost... so the only thing that is negative is the word recession... either the sense needs to be amended with a positvely or merged with sense 1 ... --BigBadBen 17:59, 30 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Consider a sentence like, “That year, about a third of the students got hit with asestology reports.” To me, this sentence seems clearly negative. I don't know what asestology reports might be (no one does, since I just now made up the term), but they sound just fine in the sentence “How's your asestology report coming along?”; so I must conclude that (deprecated template usage) hit in this sense is primarily negative, even if it can be positive. (I'm making a guess here. To me, “The economy was hit by a boom” sounds completely nonsensical; but obviously it sounds fine for you, so obviously for you it's possible for (deprecated template usage) hit in this sense to be positive. Even so, I'm guessing that in your English hit in this sense still prefers a negative interpretation. If I'm guessing wrongly, please say so.) —RuakhTALK 18:26, 30 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
Ruak, you bring up an interesting point there... in the interpretation of the usage, in the example above, it is clearly negative; but you could also be "hit" by a stroke of genius", which is clearly positive... hmmm... which leads me back to it being merged with sense 1...--BigBadBen 15:38, 1 May 2008 (UTC)Reply


hit / higit?

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Is there a shortening of hexadecimal digit analogous to bit being a shortening of binary digit? Arlo Barnes (talk) 19:08, 22 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

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