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For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.
Humphrey Lyttelton

Meaning of "hit or miss" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HIT OR MISS

hit or miss  [hɪt ɔː mɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HIT OR MISS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hit or miss is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HIT OR MISS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hit or Miss

Hit or Miss is a solitaire card game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. It is one of the unique solitaire card games because the player only deals the cards one at a time. As the player deals the cards, he says the words "ace, two, three, four... nine, ten, jack, queen, king, ace..." and so on. To make things clearer, the player says "ace" when dealing the first card, "two" when dealing the second card, and so on until "king" for the thirteenth card, "ace" again for the fourteenth, and the process continues. The player can continue counting after the cards in the deck are used up, recollected and redealt. Once the word uttered matches the rank of the card dealt, the card is "hit" and it is discarded. Cards that are "hit" no longer take further part in the game. The player can continue the game and redeal the cards as long as there are cards "hit." But when all the remaining cards are dealt twice in succession without a "hit," the game is lost. Therefore, all cards must be discarded in order for the game to be won.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HIT OR MISS


Amis
ˈeɪmɪs
amiss
əˈmɪs
Artemis
ˈɑːtɪmɪs
camis
ˈkæmɪs
commis
ˈkɒmɪs
dermis
ˈdɜːmɪs
dismiss
dɪsˈmɪs
emys
ˈɛmɪs
epidermis
ˌɛpɪˈdɜːmɪs
epididymis
ˌɛpɪˈdɪdɪmɪs
kermis
ˈkɜːmɪs
kirmess
ˈkɜːmɪs
miss
mɪs
pomace
ˈpʌmɪs
premise
ˈprɛmɪs
premiss
ˈprɛmɪs
promise
ˈprɒmɪs
pumice
ˈpʌmɪs
remiss
rɪˈmɪs
Themis
ˈθiːmɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HIT OR MISS

hit a brick wall
hit and miss
hit back
hit it
hit it off
hit list
hit man
hit off
hit on
hit one´s straps
hit out
hit parade
hit rate
hit show
hit single
hit skins
hit squad
hit the buffers
hit the deck
hit the hay

WORDS THAT END LIKE HIT OR MISS

air miss
Cheremiss
demiss
give something a miss
hit and miss
hit-and-miss
junior miss
koumiss
kumiss
near miss
submiss
take amiss
take something amiss

Synonyms and antonyms of hit or miss in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hit or miss» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HIT OR MISS

Find out the translation of hit or miss to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hit or miss from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hit or miss» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

漫无
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

impredecible
570 millions of speakers

English

hit or miss
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आस्मिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ضرب أو يغيب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

попало
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

acertar ou errar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আঘাত বা মিস্
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

n´importe comment
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Memukul atau terlepas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hit or miss
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

のるかそるか
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

막무가내
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kenek utawa kantun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhấn hoặc bỏ lỡ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெற்றி அல்லது மிஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हिट किंवा गहाळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Vur ya da ıskala
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

colpito o perdere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

na chybił trafił
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

попало
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lovit sau dor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χτύπημα ή χάσετε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

getref of mis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

drabbade eller missar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Og suksess
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hit or miss

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HIT OR MISS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hit or miss

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3 QUOTES WITH «HIT OR MISS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hit or miss.
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Jensen Ackles
When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that.
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Jon Favreau
Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it's great that I can still do that, but you know, you don't really have a lot of control over things, so it's real hit or miss.
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Humphrey Lyttelton
For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIT OR MISS»

Discover the use of hit or miss in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hit or miss and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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H.I.T. Or Miss: Lessons Learned from Health Information ...
The second edition of HIT or Miss: Lessons Learned from Health Information Technology Implementations, combines the 17 case studies, from the first edition which highlighted specific failures in health information technology projects, with ...
Jonathan Leviss, Pam Charney, Christopher Corbit, 2013
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Hit Or Miss
Miley is upset when her dad writes a song for the Jonas Brothers instead of for her, and then she agrees to be in a professional-amateur tennis tournament with hot tennis player Guillermo Montoya.
‎2009
3
Hannah Montana: Hit or Miss
Miley becomes jealous when her dad writes a great song for the Jonas Brothers, leading her to pose as a member of a boy band and try to convince them the song is already taken, and Oliver comes up with a secret identity of his own which he ...
Laurie McElroy, 2011
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Stretching Students' Vocabulary: Best Practices for Building ...
S3 3R Use Hit or Miss grids in the classroom or for homework, to promote correct spelling ana Key curriculum uocabulary. Hit or Miss promotes knowledge of correct spelling, letter "chunks," and key curriculum vocabulary. Mary Kunzman and ...
Karen Bromley, 2002
5
Hands-on Morphological Image Processing
Chapter 4 Hit-or-Miss Transform Rather than simply probe the inside or the outside of an image, it can be very fruitful to probe both at the same time in order to study the relation between figure and background. The hit-or-miss transform ...
Edward R. Dougherty, Roberto A. Lotufo, 2003
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Hit Or Miss-Cellaneous Magic - A Compendium of Tricks from ...
This comprehensive guide to magic tricks will enthral the magician of all ages. From small tricks aimed at the amateur to full scale stage illusions, this book contains a trick for everyone.
Anon, 2010
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Applications of Monte Carlo Methods to Finance and Insurance
5.3.1 Comparing the Hit-or-Miss and Crude Monte Carlo Methods Following Hammersley and Handscomb [26], we define the relative efficiency of two Monte Carlo methods for estimating θ as follows: The efficiency of Method 1 relative to ...
Thomas N. Herzog, Graham Lord, 2002
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Encyclopaedia of Mathematics: An Updated and Annotated ...
HIT-OR-MISS TOPOLOGY called a Hille-Tamarkin operator if /(/ \T(x,y)\p du{y)) dfi (x) < oo. where 1/p + 1/p' = 1. By taking p = q — 2 one obtains the class of Hilbert- Schmidt operators (cf. Hilbert- Schmidt operator). Replacing ||-|| , respectively ...
Michiel Hazewinkel, 1997
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Computer Organization and Design, Fourth Edition: The ...
For a read, the cache generates a hit or miss and supplies the data or causes a stall while the data is brought from memory. If the operation is a write, a portion of the cache entry is overwritten for a hit and the data is sent to the write buffer if we  ...
David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, 2008
10
Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing: A Practical ...
The hit-or-miss transformation given by Equation (8.4) and demonstrated in Example 8.9 was chosen to be relatively straightforward to understand. However, it is important to stress that it is actually a special case. The most general form of the ...
Chris Solomon, Toby Breckon, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIT OR MISS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hit or miss is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hot spots fishing tips - Pensacola News Journal
Bob Sikes Bridge is probably the best spot for land-locked anglers right now even though the bite is hit or miss. Mangrove snapper, redfish ... «Pensacola News Journal, Jul 15»
2
The Durango Herald 07/15/2015 | Keep umbrellas handy
“We're now in the monsoonal season, and every day, it's just kind of hit or miss,” he said. “Where the storm will form and hit is hard to forecast, ... «The Durango Herald, Jul 15»
3
A pleasant change just hours away! - WFSB 3 Connecticut
Heavy downpours were hit or miss. Doppler radar estimated rainfall totals ranged from 1-2'' in Woodbury, 2-2.5'' around Colebrook and ... «WFSB, Jul 15»
4
Fishing forecast: Flounder fishing improves in recent weeks …
Billfishing has been hit or miss. Plenty of big sharks are around. But charters are having little to no trouble returning with limits of dolphin. «The Virginian-Pilot, Jul 15»
5
West Nile Virus identified in DeKalb | Daily Chronicle
“Bird [testing] is more hit or miss,” he said. “With birds you never know exactly what caused the birds to die and depending on where they are in ... «DeKalb Daily Chronicle, Jul 15»
6
10 big-money moves rated hit or miss as Raheem Sterling's price …
Here, we take a look at the current top 10 deals and give our hit or miss verdict on how those players fared at their new clubs. «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
7
Summer business hit or miss on El Paseo
Christophe Douheret used to close his El Paseo eatery Clementine Gourmet Marketplace and Cafe every July and August. This year, he ... «KESQ, Jul 15»
8
Hit or Miss for Every NHL Team's Biggest Move so Far in the 2015 …
Free agency has hit the dog days of summer. The furious first few days are long gone, and NHL teams are kicking tires or attempting to free up ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
9
Sport fish report: Halibut hit or miss, trout fishing should heat up soon
Halibut fishing has been somewhat hit or miss this year but anglers are catching a few fish in North Pass, Couverden and Icy Straits area. «Juneau Empire, Jul 15»
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The Week's Top Beauty Looks: Hit Or Miss?! July 4 - 10
Here's who rocked some of the biggest beauty trends this week. Now have your say on which beauty looks you'd like to copy and which ones you'd never dare ... «ETCanada.com, Jul 15»

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