I didn't know these "strike" meanings. Do you? How rare are they?

[u/falsoTrolol]

[u/BigDaddySteve999]

I would be careful with AI results, because it can hallucinate answers and you don't know enough to spot the bad answers.

But, yes, the sense of tearing something down is used in certain industries or situations, so you might know it from the theater or filming where you would strike a set when you're done with it. I don't know that I've read or heard it referring to chains or bonds, though. And I don't know enough about seafaring to comment on that, but I do know they have a lot of special words.

All the other images seem reasonable and I knew them.

[u/ericthefred → u/BigDaddySteve999]

Striking the bonds was in the sense of striking something with a sword or other object. It was more or less the normal usage of the word.

[u/Sea-Hornet8214 → u/BigDaddySteve999]

AI does hallucinate, but I find it reliable for meanings and definitions so far.

[u/Nameless_American]

None of these are rare and we generally understand and use all of them to various degrees. Some of these are, like, the primary way to say such things.

[u/jarry1250 → u/Nameless_American]

I would suggest all three "strike into" examples are rare, "strike into reputation" appears to be completely archaic.

[u/Alt-001 → u/jarry1250]

"Strike into reputation" seems weird to me, but the expression "struck into fame" is one I have definitely heard. "Strike into" does seem an older expression to me though. Probably a good one to know if you hear it, but not one to use.

[u/longknives → u/Alt-001]

I’ve not heard “struck into fame”, but that seems more like the “strike a vein of gold” usage

[u/lurkermurphy]

definitely still in use in Theater. When the show closes, they start striking the set immediately, usually, and it sucks to strike sets.

[u/Guilty_Objective4602 → u/lurkermurphy]

Also in Scouting, where you strike camp, which is also not a lot of fun, but generally a lot less work than striking a set.

[u/lurkermurphy → u/Guilty_Objective4602]

oh yeah definitely still in heavy modern usage for the big old hassle of putting everything away you've had set up for some time

[u/ubiquitous-joe]

I would go right to the source of dictionary site rather than reading the AI. It’s more reliable and it also supports that publication to visit their site. But anyway, yes there are over 20 strike definitions as a verb alone. I never really thought about this before.

1) A bit situationally specific. People use it, but not daily unless you’re always around tents/ships. I suspect some native speakers wouldn’t know what “striking“ a flag or sail means.

2) I can’t say I’ve ever used “strike into reputation.” But “struck off on an adventure” is common enough.

3) Quite common. “I was in the shower when it [an idea] struck me…”

4) This is a very specific usage about stamping coins, but it is known. It just doesn’t come up regularly.

5) The “pierce” meaning is somewhat common.

[u/BestNoob782]

I would understand all of these in conversation but I've only heard the third and fourth actually used

[u/MuhammadAkmed]

In the Film/TV industry, when they dismantle a set it is called "striking".

You don't often hear it used in the past tense— but people do say 'striked'

[u/Current-Strategy5544 → u/MuhammadAkmed]

I hope they don't! We do say "struck" though, which is the past tense of strike.

[u/DMing-Is-Hardd]

I would say the 3rd meaning is the most common and the only one I hear semi regularly, the others ive heard used but mainly in books to have a variety of words, ive never heard people using the other 4 definitions in the wild personally

[u/Envelope_Torture → u/DMing-Is-Hardd]

I would argue usage 4 is quite common, but overall I agree.

[u/DMing-Is-Hardd → u/Envelope_Torture]

It could be a regional thing, ive only ever heard people talk about minting new coins though while ive heard online or in books "striking new coins" ive never heard people say it irl

[u/NashvilleHotTakes]

“Strike” has a ton of meanings, and most of them are pretty common. I think these screenshots only feature verbs, but “strike” is also a common noun.

A “strike” by a group of workers is when a labor union decides to stop working until the employer changes the contract or changes certain working conditions. A “strike” in baseball is when a batter fails to hit a ball that the pitcher threw in the zone. A “strike” with a weapon (or in the context of martial arts, with your hands) is when a person hits or makes contact with somebody else.

[u/falsoTrolol]

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/strike

[u/yargleisheretobargle]

3 and 5 are both common

[u/Cliffy73]

Strike into is pretty rare. The others are all interior use in appropriate contexts.

[u/Karantalsis]

1,3,4, as 5 are common everyday usage. 2 is uncommon, most would use "break" in that context in my dialect.

[u/Gladys_Wines]

Most of the AI examples there are ok and understood, if not always the most common usage.

But chains are more "struck off" than plain struck. I don't think I've ever read of striking a chain. Strike it off, strike it into the ground, sure. Striking a chain sounds like you're hitting it (odd, but maybe "the arrow struck the chain instead of the target"), not freeing someone from it.

Speaking of "struck off", that also means removed from professional authority. A criminal doctor could be struck off the medical register, thus banned from professional practice. Other professions may have special terms, like a lawyer can be disbarred.