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# hitter

«hitter» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who hits, especially a batter in baseball or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a hitter, hitters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hitter is a person who hits, especially a batter in baseball or softball whose job is to hit the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitter/#m1)

2) (informal) A heavy hitter is a powerful or important person or organisation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitter/#m2)

3) In cricket and other sports, a hitter is someone who hits the ball hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitter/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday sport in the US and Canada, hitters are batters: a «good hitter» hits the ball often, a «power hitter» hits it far. In cricket, a «big hitter» scores lots of sixes. In maths problems about baseball, a hitter's batting average = hits ÷ times at bat. In news, «heavy hitters» are big important people.

### examples

- She is the best hitter on our softball team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitter/#x1)
- The hitter swung and sent the ball over the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitter/#x2)
- He is a big hitter who scores lots of sixes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitter/#x3)
- A power hitter can hit home runs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitter/#x4)
- The heavy hitters of tech came to the meeting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitter/#x5)
- The coach moved the left-handed hitter up the order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitter/#x6)

### note

Countable. In baseball, «batter» is the usual word for the person batting; hitter is used too. Batting average in maths: hits ÷ at-bats, written like .300 (3 hits in 10).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hitter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.