Definition of strikings Strikings
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What does strikings mean?
Part of speech
🔤- strikings, noun, plural of striking.
WordNet
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| striking - having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance between parent and child" | ||
| outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular | ||
| conspicuous obvious to the eye or mind; "a tower conspicuous at a great distance"; "wore conspicuous neckties"; "made herself conspicuous by her exhibitionistic preening" | ||
| striking - sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect; "a dramatic sunset"; "a dramatic pause"; "a spectacular display of northern lights"; "it was a spectacular play"; "his striking good looks always created a sensation" | ||
| dramatic, spectacular | ||
| impressive producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture" | ||
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| striking - the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" | ||
| hit, hitting | ||
| touching, touch the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights" | ||
| contusion the action of bruising; "the bruise resulted from a contusion" | ||
| crash, smash the act of colliding with something; "his crash through the window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line" | ||
| bunt (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat | ||
| fly ball, fly (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air | ||
| ground ball, groundball, grounder, hopper (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | ||
| header a headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery" | ||
| scorcher, screamer a very hard hit ball | ||
| striking - the physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull" | ||
| contact, impinging | ||
| happening, natural event, occurrent, occurrence an event that happens | ||
| collision, hit a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals; "a collision of interests" | ||
| interlocking, meshing, mesh, engagement the act of interlocking or meshing; "an interlocking of arms by the police held the crowd in check" | ||
| flick a short stroke | ||
| impact the striking of one body against another | ||
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Wiktionary 
- striking (Verb)
Present participle of strike. - striking (Adjective)
Of that which makes a strong impression.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- striking (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Strike - striking
a. & n. from Strike, v. - striking (a.)
Affecting with strong emotions; surprising; forcible; impressive; very noticeable; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance.
