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experience, information, biography, CV or curriculum vitae, US
r‚sum‚: Your entire work history should be included in your
application. 5 chronicle, annals, record, account: The history
of Parliamentary debate can be traced through Hansard. 6
ancient history, the past, yesterday, the (good old) days, days
of yore, olden days, yesteryear, antiquity: What can history
tell us about the future? 7 dead letter, yesterday's news, old
hat: Any animosity I might have felt towards him is now
history.
hit v. 1 strike, cuff, smack, knock, whack, bash, bang, thump,
thwack, punch, buffet, slap, swat, bludgeon, club, smite; spank,
thrash, beat, pummel, batter, flog, scourge, birch, cane, lash,
belabour, flagellate, whip, horsewhip, cudgel, Archaic
fustigate; Colloq belt, wallop, clobber, clout, sock, clip,
crown, bop, conk, paste, lambaste, zap: She hit him on the jaw
and he went down. 2 strike, bat, swat, knock, drive, propel:
He hit the ball over the heads of the fielders. 3 strike,
collide or impact with, run or smash or crash into, bump or bang
into: The car went off the road and hit a tree. 4 affect,
touch, stir, move, wound, hurt, strike or hit home, make or
leave an impression or a mark on, (make an) impact (on): The
new taxes hit the wealthy more than the poor. 5 dawn on, enter
one's mind, occur to, strike: It finally hit Graham that he had
been insulted. 6 reach, attain, arrive at, gain, achieve:
Those who have hit eighty know the meaning of old age. She hit
the jackpot this week. 7 experience, encounter, meet (with): It
was at that point that we hit a snag in the negotiations. 8
Also, hit up. importune, beseech, petition, beg, implore,
entreat, ask for: As usual, Guthrie hit me for a loan as soon
as we met. 9 hit on or upon. a come or happen or chance or
light on or upon, discover, find, uncover, unearth, stumble or
blunder on or upon, arrive at: After years of experimentation,
the Curies hit upon pitchblende as a source of radium. b devise,
think of or up, invent, dream up, come up with, work out, see,
perceive, detect, discern, find: I have hit upon a way to
counteract the force of gravity.
--n. 10 impact, collision; blow, punch, knock, strike, swat,
shot, smack, bump, bang, Colloq whack, thwack, conk, bop, sock:
The weakness of the hit caused only a slight dent in my car
door. The boxer reeled after a hard hit to the midriff. 11
success, triumph, coup, winner, sensation, Colloq smash (hit),