Secondary (a.) Suceeding next in order to the first |
Secondary (a.) Acting by deputation or delegated authority |
Secondary (a.) Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree |
Secondary (a.) Subsequent in origin |
Secondary (a.) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird. |
Secondary (a.) Dependent or consequent upon another disease |
Secondary (n.) One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place |
Secondary (n.) A secondary circle. |
Secondary (n.) A satellite. |
Secondary (n.) A secondary quill. |
Strike (v. t.) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument |
Strike (v. t.) To come in collision with |
Strike (v. t.) To give, as a blow |
Strike (v. t.) To stamp or impress with a stroke |
Strike (v. t.) To thrust in |
Strike (v. t.) To punish |
Strike (v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats |
Strike (v. t.) To lower |
Strike (v. t.) To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow |
Strike (v. t.) To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse |
Strike (v. t.) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke |
Strike (v. t.) To cause to ignite |
Strike (v. t.) To make and ratify |
Strike (v. t.) To take forcibly or fraudulently |
Strike (v. t.) To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top. |
Strike (v. t.) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle. |
Strike (v. t.) To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly |
Strike (v. t.) To borrow money of |
Strike (v. t.) To lade into a cooler, as a liquor. |
Strike (v. t.) To stroke or pass lightly |
Strike (v. t.) To advance |
Strike (v. i.) To move |
Strike (v. i.) To deliver a quick blow or thrust |
Strike (v. i.) To hit |
Strike (v. i.) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows |
Strike (v. i.) To make an attack |
Strike (v. i.) To touch |
Strike (v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank |
Strike (v. i.) To pass with a quick or strong effect |
Strike (v. i.) To break forth |
Strike (v. i.) To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy. |
Strike (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages. |
Strike (v. i.) To become attached to something |
Strike (v. i.) To steal money. |
Strike (n.) The act of striking. |
Strike (n.) An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top |
Strike (n.) A bushel |
Strike (n.) An old measure of four bushels. |
Strike (n.) Fullness of measure |
Strike (n.) An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence. |
hit smash smasher strike bang | a conspicuous success, that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career, that new Broadway show is a real smasher, the party went with a bang |
strike | (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders, this pitcher throws more strikes than balls |
strike ten-strike | a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball, he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame |
secondary censorship | armed forces censorship of the personal communications of officers or civilian employees or enlisted personnel not subject to primary censorship |
secondary education | education beyond the elementary grades, provided by a high school or college preparatory school |
strike | an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective, the strike was scheduled to begin at dawn |
first strike | the initial use of nuclear weapons to attack a country that also has nuclear weapons, considered feasible only when the attacker can destroy the other country's ability to retaliate, the Pakistani president promised no first strike against India |
surgical strike | an attack (usually without prior warning) intended to deal only with a specific target |
preventive strike preventive attack | a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces |
hunger strike | a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest |
strike work stoppage | a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions, the strike lasted more than a month before it was settled |
sit-down sit-down strike | a strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached |
sympathy strike sympathetic strike | a strike in support of other workers who are on strike, a strike not resulting from direct grievances against the workers' employer |
wildcat strike | a strike undertaken by workers without approval from the officials of their union |
pre-emptive strike | a surprise attack that is launched in order to prevent the enemy from doing it to you |
auxiliary storage external storage secondary storage | a data storage device that is not the main memory of a computer |
secondary coil secondary winding secondary | coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil |
storage cell secondary cell | a cell that can be recharged |
secondary sex characteristic secondary sexual characteristic secondary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature) |
secondary dentition | dentition of permanent teeth |
rap strike tap | a gentle blow |
secondary diagonal | the diagonal of a square matrix running from the lower left entry to the upper right entry |
secondary school lyceum lycee Gymnasium middle school | a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college, usually grades to |
secondary modern school | a former British secondary school emphasizing practical rather than academic education |
secondary | the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen |
strike zone | (baseball) the area over home plate between a batter's knees and shoulders through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike |
strike-slip fault | a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally |
strike leader | someone who leads a strike |
strike pay | money paid to strikers from union funds |
secondary emission | the emission of electrons from a surface that is bombarded by higher energy primary electrons |
secondary hypertension | hypertension that is secondary to another disease |
secondary syphilis | the second stage, characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane |
secondary amenorrhea | cessation of menstruation in a woman who had previously menstruated |
secondary dysmenorrhea | painful menstruation that is caused by some specific disorder (as endometriosis) |
General Certificate of Secondary Education GCSE O level | the basic level of a subject taken in school |
strike a blow | affect adversely, The court ruling struck a blow at the old segregation laws |
strike | cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp, strike an arc |
strike out | set out on a course of action, He struck out on his own |
strike a chord | create an emotional response, The music struck a chord with the listeners |
strike | arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing, strike a balance, strike a bargain |
cross off cross out strike out strike off mark | remove from a list, Cross the name of the dead person off the list |
strike | indicate (a certain time) by striking, The clock struck midnight, Just when I entered, the clock struck |
strike hit | make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target, The Germans struck Poland on Sept. , , We must strike the enemy's oil fields, in the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game to |
retaliate strike back | make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil, The Empire strikes back, The Giants struck back and won the opener, The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing |
retire strike out | cause to get out, The pitcher retired three batters, the runner was put out at third base |
hit strike | 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 |
strike hit | produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically, The pianist strikes a middle C, strike `z' on the keyboard, her comments struck a sour note |
strike | pierce with force, The bullet struck her thigh, The icy wind struck through our coats |
hit strike impinge on run into collide with | hit against, come into sudden contact with, The car hit a tree, He struck the table with his elbow |
knock strike hard | deliver a sharp blow or push :He knocked the glass clear across the room |