hitting

USHIT-ing/ˈhɪtɪŋ/

Noun pluralhittings

2 meanings of hitting

1
verb
Present participle of hit.
The storm was hitting the coast hard by midnight.
Hitting the ball cleanly takes years of steady practice.
Note
One form doing two jobs. After be it builds the progressive (the storm was hitting the coast), and in noun positions it is the gerund (hitting the ball cleanly). The final t doubles before -ing. The gerund still takes a direct object, while the noun for a run of blows needs of: the hitting of the bag. Every sense of hit carries over, from pressing a key to the slang sense of killing to order.
2
nouncountable or uncountable
The act of striking a person or thing with a series of blows.
Like hailstones pelting a roof one after another.
The relentless hitting left the heavy bag torn open at the seams.
Witnesses described the hitting that broke out near the stadium gates.
Similarbeating, pounding, battering, pummeling, punching
Note
Sports writing gives the noun its widest use. Pierce Egan's Boxiana (1824) says a fighter "had the best of the hitting in this round," which treats an exchange of blows as a contest one side can win. A batter's hitting is the skill itself, something that improves with practice, and this use is uncountable. Counted, as in several hittings, it marks separate bouts of blows.

hitting is a form of hit

hit, verb: To deliver a blow to someone or something, either directly or by using a weapon or thrown object. Full entry

Forms: hit also past tense, past participlehits he/she/ithitting -ing form
Spelling: hit → hitting: double the t, add -ing

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