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MAKE A HIT

Specialty Definition: MAKE A HIT

DomainDefinition

Literature

Make a Hit (To). To succeed unexpectedly in an adventure or speculation. (See Hit .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: MAKE A HIT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Skill

Take advantage of, make the most of; profit by &e. (use); make a hit; (succeed); make a virtue of necessity; make hay while the sun shines; (occasion).

Success

Answer, answer the purpose; avail, prevail, take effect, do, turn out well, work well, take, tell, bear fruit; hit it, hit the mark, hit the right nail on the head; nick it; turn up trumps, make a hit; find one's account in.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: MAKE A HIT

Language Translations for "MAKE A HIT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kam sukses (arrive, be a success, boom, bring off, click, come across, come along, do well, get on with, succeed). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حقق نجاحا (go ahead), ‏تباهى (blow, boast, brag, give oneself airs, parade, plume, pride, show off, take a pride, take a pride in, talk big). (various references)

   

French

  

réussir pleinement, faire une grosse impression. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έχω επιτυχία. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לקצור "צלח". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sikerre visz (to bring off, to get across, to put over, to put sg across), sikere van (taken, to catch on, to click, to strike oil, to take, took), befut (pull in, ran, run, to get in, to put in, to roll up, to run). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"たり'取る (to make a hit). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

あたり'とる (to make a hit). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

akemay aay ithay

   

Russian 

  

иметь успех (be a success, be successful, click, ring the bell, succeed, take on). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

napraviti pogodak. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ser un éxito. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tutulmak (attack, attaint, be at a premium, be enamored of, be enamoured of, be held, be in a request, be smitten with, be stuck, be stuck on, be taken, be taken with, catch on, come in, come up, drop, go into, have a crush on smb., incur, indulge, smite, stiffen), çok beğenilmek. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

мати великий успіх. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MAKE A HIT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-i-k-m-t"

-2 letters: hamate, takahe.

-3 letters: haika, hakim, kithe.

-4 letters: ahem, amah, amia, amie, atma, eath, emit, haem, haet, haik, hake, hame, hate, heat, hike, ikat, item, kame, kami, kata, khat, khet, kite, kith, make, mate, math, meat, meta, meth, mike, mite, taka, take, tame, teak, team, thae, them, tike, time.

-5 letters: aah, aha, aim, ait, ama.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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