striking adj

1 sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect; "a dramatic sunset"; "a dramatic pause"; "a spectacular display of northern lights"; "it was a spectacular play"; "his striking good looks always created a sensation" [syn: dramatic, spectacular]

2 having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "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" [syn: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular]

1 the physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull" [syn: contact, impinging]

2 the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" [syn: hit, hitting]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪkɪŋ

Adjective

1. of that which makes a strong impression

   He looked quite striking in his new suit and tie.

Translations

• Dutch: opvallend
• Finnish: silmiinpistävä (1)
• German: auffällig
• Spanish: llamativo

Verb

striking

1. present participle of strike

Strike may refer to a refusal to work or perform, including:

• Strike action or work strike, a work stoppage by a corporation or public institution
• General strike, a strike action by a critical mass of the labor force in a city, region or country
• Church strike, strike decided by the Christian church
• Prison strike, a strike taking place inside a prison
• Student strike a mass refusal of students to go to class, in protest of school issues, or in sympathy with a strike action or general strike
• Culture strike, refusal to produce or show art
• Hunger strike, voluntary refusal to eat as an act of protest
• Rent strike, the withholding of rent to achieve certain goals
• Sex strike, refraining from sex to achieve goals

Strike may refer to a physical confrontation or removal, including:

• Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm
• Bird strike, a collision between a bird and an aircraft
• Military strike, a limited military attack on a specified target
• Air strike, a military strike by air forces
• Strike through, a typographical effect

In economics:

• Strike (finance) is the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise an option

In law:

• Strike from the record, to forbid testimony or evidence from being considered

In science and technology:

• Strike (geology), a measure of the orientation of a geologic feature
• Strike and dip, which indicates the compass orientation of a horizontal line on a planar surface
• Lightning strike, electrical discharge between clouds and the ground
• Striking clock, a clock that sounds the hours on a bell or gong
• Cutting (plant), cutting parts of a plant for propagation
• Electric strike

In the arts and entertainment:

• Strike Entertainment is a production company produced and distributed through Universal Pictures launched in 2003
• Strike (film) a 1925 Soviet silent film by Sergei Eisenstein
• Strike (2006 film) a 2006 film by Volker Schlöndorff about a woman who becomes a founder of Poland's Solidarity movement
• The Strike series of videogames
• Strike (band), a UK dance music group
• Strike (hip-hop) Hip Hop group from Georgia
• "The Strike" (Seinfeld episode)
• Strikebreaker (short story), a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov
• GAT-X105 Strike Gundam, in the anime series Gundam Seed, the primary mobile suit for the first half of the series
• S.T.R.I.K.E. a fictional intelligence agency in Marvel Comics
• Or, in the theatre, to strike a set means to dismantle it after the final performance of a play, and either to discard the materials or store them for a future production.
• Strikes (album), a 1979 album by Southern rock band Blackfoot

In sports and games:

• Strike (baseball), a mark against a batter
• Strike (bowling), when a player knocks down all the pins with the first ball of a frame
• In cricket, a batsman is "on strike" when facing the bowler
• An accurate, driven shot using the laces of the shoe in football (soccer)

See also

• Striker (disambiguation)
• Gold Strike (disambiguation)

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