Contact vs. Hit — What's the Difference?

A coming together or touching, as of objects or surfaces.

To come into contact with forcefully; strike

The state or condition of touching or of immediate proximity

To cause to come into contact

Connection or interaction; communication

To deal a blow to

Visual observation

To cause an implement or missile to come forcefully into contact with

Association; relationship

To press or push (a key or button, for example)

A person who might be of use; a connection

To reach with a propelled ball or puck

A connection between two conductors that permits a flow of current or heat.

To score in this way

A part or device that makes or breaks such a connection.

To perform (a shot or maneuver) successfully

(Medicine) A person recently exposed to a contagious disease, usually through close association with an infected individual.

To propel with a stroke or blow

A contact lens.

To execute (a base hit) successfully

To get in touch with; communicate with

To bat against (a pitcher or kind of pitch) successfully

To come into contact with

To affect, especially adversely

To make contact with; touch or strike

To be affected by (a negative development)

To be in or come into contact.

To win (a prize, for example), especially in a lottery.

Of, sustaining, or making contact.

To arise suddenly in the mind of; occur to

Caused or transmitted by touching

(Informal) To go to or arrive at

The act of touching physically; being in close association.

(Informal) To attain or reach

The establishment of communication (with).

To produce or represent accurately

The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.

(Games) To deal cards to.

A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.

(Sports) To bite on or take (bait or a lure). Used of a fish.

Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.

To strike or deal a blow.

(informal) A contact lens.

To come into contact with something; collide.

(electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.

To attack

Contact juggling.

To happen or occur

(mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

To achieve or find something desired or sought

To touch; to come into physical contact with.

(Baseball) To bat or bat well

To establish communication with something or someone.

(Sports) To score by shooting, especially in basketball

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

To ignite a mixture of air and fuel in the cylinders. Used of an internal-combustion engine.

The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.

A collision or impact.

The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

A successfully executed shot, blow, thrust, or throw.

A metallic conducting component of an electrical device connected to a circuit within and so situated that it may form a conducting pathway to an external power source or device when contacted by another conductor; as, the contact on a standard light bulb has the shape of a screw for easy insertion into the socket.

(Sports) A deliberate collision with an opponent, such as a body check in ice hockey.

A person who serves to commmunicate information to or from one group to another, whether formally or informally; as, a good Washington reporter has contacts in the White House.

A successful or popular venture

Close interaction;

A match of data in a search string against data that one is searching.

The state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity;

A connection made to a website over the internet or another network

The act of touching physically;

An apt or effective remark.

The physical coming together of two or more things;

Abbr. H(Baseball) A base hit.

A person who is in a position to give you special assistance;

A dose of a narcotic drug.

A channel for communication between groups;

A puff of a cigarette or a pipe.

(electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact;

(Slang) A murder planned and carried out usually by a member of an underworld syndicate.

A communicative interaction;

To strike.

A thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication

(transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

Be in or establish communication with;

(transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

Be in direct physical contact with; make contact;

(intransitive) To strike against something.

(transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.

To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.

To attack, especially amphibiously.

To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.

To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.

To switch on.

To briefly visit.

To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.

(heading) To attain, to achieve.

To reach or achieve.

(intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.

To guess; to light upon or discover.

(transitive) To affect negatively.

(metaphorically) To attack.

To make a play.

In blackjack, to deal a card to.

To come up to bat.

(backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

To use; to connect to.

To have sex with.

To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.

(of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.

To work out

A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.

An attack on a location, person or people.

A collision of a projectile with the target.

In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.

A match found by searching a computer system or search engine

(Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

An approximately correct answer in a test set.

(baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.

(colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.

(dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

(backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.

(backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

Very successful.

(dialectal) It.

It.

To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).

To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.

To guess; to light upon or discover.

To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; - said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; - followed by against or on.

To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, - often with implied chance, or luck.

A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit;

A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.

A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.

A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; - sometimes used specifically for a base hit.

An act of murder performed for hire, esp. by a professional assassin.

(baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball);

The act of contacting one thing with another;

A conspicuous success;

(physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together;

A dose of a narcotic drug

A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate;

A connection made via the internet to another website;

Cause to move by striking;

Hit against; come into sudden contact with;

Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely;

Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument;

Reach a destination, either real or abstract;

Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level;

Hit with a missile from a weapon

Cause to experience suddenly;

Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target;

Hit the intended target or goal

Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically;

Encounter by chance;

Gain points in a game;

Consume to excess;

Kill intentionally and with premeditation;

Drive something violently into a location;

Pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to;