- For Teachers Can someone tell me the difference between the
verbs to strike and to hit I have teaching practise in a few
days so I will be grateful if you can give me some ideas on
this. And if anyone knows the best way to teach to Strike to
students. Shall I use pictures, which examples etc The words are
basically synonyms. Except in baseball where a strike is the
opposite of a hit. And, of course, "to strike" can mean "to
refuse to work" for some reason, usually to get something you
want or to show your opposition to something that has happened,
is happening or is going to happen. Remember - correct
capitalisation, punctuation and spacing make posts much easier
to read. However, I would still argue that "a strike" is not the
opposite of "a hit" if for no other reason than the umpire may
call either "a strike" or (in my opinion, the opposite) "a ball"
without the batter swinging his/her bat.