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Definition: Hit Home |
Hit HomeVerb1. Refer to or be relevant of familiar to; "I hope this message hits home!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Hit HomeSynonyms: strike a chord (v), strike a note (v), strike home (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hit Home |
| English words defined with "hit home": Aaron ♦ connect ♦ Fair ball ♦ Hank Aaron, Henry Louis Aaron, homer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hit home": 3DO. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hit home run | 13 |
ever hit home longest run | 2 |
3000 500 hit home run | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hit home"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | بيت كريم, بيت ناجح. (various references) | ||||
French | coup porté. (various references) | ||||
German | sitzen (be, be inside, be situated, be stuck, fit, have a seat, have its headquarters, have sunk in, lie, perch, sit, sit on, to sit, to sit (sat). (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | לקלוע למטר" (hit the nail on the head, hit the target, strike home). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | talál (find, to fault, to hit, to hit home, to hit the mark, to pick up, to strike home), elevenjére tapint (to hit home, to strike home). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ithay omehay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-h-i-m-o-t" | |
-3 letters: emit, heth, home, item, meth, mite, mote, moth, omit, them, thio, time, tome. | |
-4 letters: eth, heh, hem, het, hie, him, hit, hoe, hot, met, mho, mot, ohm, the, tho, tie, toe, tom. | |
-5 letters: eh, em, et, he, hi, hm, ho, it, me, mi, mo, oe, oh, om, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-h-i-m-o-t" | |
+3 letters: henotheism, hithermost. | |
+4 letters: henotheisms, homeopathic, homoiotherm, hypothermia, hypothermic, somewhither, thermophile. | |
+5 letters: exophthalmic, hemichordate, homeopathies, homeothermic, homoiotherms, hypothermias, photochemist, phytochemist, thermohaline, thermophiles, thermophilic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 74 48 6F 6D 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01001000 01101111 01101101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i t   H o m e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 0074 0048 006F 006D 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427586242817971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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