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# striking

«striking» in Mova's school dictionary: **hitting something hard: the ball striking the window** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (striking); verb form of strike (strike, strikes, struck, striking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Striking means hitting something hard: the ball striking the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striking/#m1)

2) For a clock, striking means ringing the hours: the clock is striking six. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striking/#m2)

3) Striking also means very easy to notice, eye-catching: a striking red dress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striking/#m3)

4) Striking workers are on strike: they stop work to ask for better pay or conditions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striking/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a clock striking the hours: strikes counted; 6 strikes have only 5 gaps, so time = gaps × gap length; a hit or a strike in a game. In science: lightning striking a tree; striking a match. Safety: lightning often strikes tall things, so do not shelter under a lone tree in a storm. Phrases: striking distance, a striking difference, the clock striking, striking a match.

### examples

- The clock is striking 6. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striking/#x1)
- How many times does a clock strike from 1 to 12? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striking/#x2)
- The clock takes 10 seconds for striking 6. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striking/#x3)
- Each striking of the bell lasts 2 seconds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striking/#x4)
- Lightning is striking the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striking/#x5)
- She wore a striking yellow coat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striking/#x6)
- There is a striking likeness between the twins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striking/#x7)
- He was striking the nail with a hammer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striking/#x8)
- The bus drivers are striking for better pay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striking/#x9)
- The clocks were striking twelve when John awoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/striking/#x10)

### note

Past form of strike: struck. Counts strikes. Trap: 6 strikes have only 5 gaps, so time is gaps × gap length. Trap: a clock that strikes each hour from 1 to 12 strikes 78 times in all.

### In the corpora

- [A picket line is striking workers standing outside their workplace with signs, peacefully asking others not to go in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/14/)
- [The tabla is a pair of Indian hand drums; pressing the skin while striking it changes the pitch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/13/)
- [Striking a match makes heat by friction; safety matches light only on the box strip, which holds red phosphorus.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/11-the-candle-and-burning/14/)
- [Lightning striking sand can melt it into glass tubes called fulgurites; volcanoes make a natural black glass called obsidian.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/30-glass-and-pottery/11/)
- [Picture the church clock striking 6: bong, gap, bong, gap...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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