Strike (disambiguation)
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Strike may mean:
Types of strike:
- Strike action or Work strike, a deliberate absence from work
- General strike, as above but involving an entire labour force in a city, region or country
- Hunger strike
- Sex strike
- Culture strike
Strike by type of institution:
Other meanings:
- in botany, striking means cutting parts of a plant for propagation
- Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm
- Military strike, a limited attack on a specified target
- Strike (finance) is the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise an option.
- Striking clock, an audible signal of the time, or the portion of a clockwork concerned with producing it
- Strike and dip, indicates the compass orientation of a horizontal line on a planar surface
- Strikethrough, a typographical effect.
[edit] Arts and sports
- In theatre, the word strike is used to describe removing set pieces from the stage
- Strike (film), a 1925 silent film
- Strikebreaker (Asimov) is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov.
- GAT-X105 Strike Gundam, in the anime series Gundam Seed, the primary mobile suit for the first half of the series
- The strike zone, in baseball, is the target for pitchers and the area which a batter must "defend"
- In bowling, a "strike" occurs when players knock down all the pins with their first ball of a frame.
- In cricket, a batsman is "on strike" when facing the bowler.
- In Association Football, a strike is an accurate, driven shot using the laces of the shoe.
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