Greek English Dictionary

ελληνικά - English

χτυπάω in English:

1. hit


I love trying out new things, so I always buy products as soon as they hit the store shelves. Of course, half the time I end up wishing I hadn't.
Selena Gomez's second album hit Billboard Magazine's top two hundred albums chart at number four.
Roger Miller's "Dang Me" was a hit with country music fans and with popular music fans too. It sold millions of copies.
Five tremors in excess of magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale have shaken Japan just this week, but scientists are warning that the largest expected aftershock has yet to hit.
The bank rate cut is expected to relieve the severe financial squeeze that has hit industry.
Hit me.
Attempts to redraw voting districts have hit a wall of opposition.
That man has hit bottom: his wife has left him, he's lost his job, and he's an alcoholic. The worst is that I know him--he used to be my boss five years ago.
If you throw something like that down, if someone's unlucky enough to be hit they'll be injured.
Japan has had the experience of being hit by major earthquake disasters, since it is a country which has historically had many earthquakes.
From the telecast this morning, I have learned to my shock that a big fire hit your area.
There's another reason, isn't there? Well, how did I do? I bet I hit the mark.
Seeing the son of a whore throwing rocks at a crowd, he said: "Be careful, you could hit your father."
The guard's truncheon hit air. Off balance, he regained his posture to see a metal-mesh rubbish bin flying towards him.
I'm very lucky to have been gifted with this 10,000 hit picture! Thank you so very much.

English word "χτυπάω"(hit) occurs in sets:

Companion 3a

2. ring


Ring the police!
For the sake of completeness, let us mention that the ring R - considered as a module over itself - has submodules of arbitrarily large finite length.
In particular, the endomorphism ring of M is a commutative local ring.
The hand has five fingers: the thumb, the index finger, the middle finger, the ring finger, and the pinky.
I think we've met before, but if I don't ring a bell, maybe I'm wrong.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
If you want to marry me you need to get on your knees and give me a ring.
You'll have it in June? 'June bride' has a nice ring, doesn't it?
Kevin has bought a diamond ring and is going to pop the question to Kim tonight.
In Japan the ring shaped ones came into use first so they're also often called "contraceptive rings".
[rɪŋ] ring
My sister always rings me when she has a problem.
Is it OK for me to remove my wedding ring and go to a dating party when I have a pregnant wife?
As I was eating lunch, Kichiya came to me and, while she was serving my meal, she was toying happily with her ring set with a gleaming jewel.
If you need anything, ring my bell any time. I'll be glad to help you.

3. whip


They made a whip out of cords.
The cruel man beat the dog with a whip.
Whip the egg-whites until they are stiff.
I'm sure you'll whip us up something really good.
If you whip the steering wheel around like that on a snowy road, the car is going to go into a slide.
I don't like the way the ​drivers whip ​their ​horses
What would you have me do, whip her through the streets?
... a lowly house majority whip.
While clearly outside of his element at, say, a Western-style karaoke bar, he could easily whip out a Brazilian folk song in seven-eight meter on his berimbau.
whipped cream
whip up / whisk
The passing whip of a taskmaster would force them into dedicated motion.
the line may be elegant and graceful or infused with a powerfully rhythmic and whiplike force
She ​lashed the ​horses mercilessly with her ​long whip
There they kicked us, beat us, whipped us with electric cables and shocked us with electricity!

English word "χτυπάω"(whip) occurs in sets:

Ρήματα - Verbs