Stroke
[strəʊk] or [strok]
Definition
(noun.) a light touch with the hands.
(noun.) a single complete movement.
(noun.) (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand; 'it took two strokes to get out of the bunker'; 'a good shot requires good balance and tempo'; 'he left me an almost impossible shot'.
(noun.) any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing.
(noun.) a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush; 'she applied the paint in careful strokes'.
(noun.) a light touch.
(noun.) the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew.
(noun.) (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club; 'Nicklaus won by three strokes'.
(noun.) a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
(verb.) treat gingerly or carefully; 'You have to stroke the boss'.
(verb.) strike a ball with a smooth blow.
(verb.) row at a particular rate.
(verb.) touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions; 'He stroked his long beard'.
Editor: Ned--From WordNet
Definition
(imp.) Struck.
(v. t.) The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon.
(v. t.) The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
(v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
(v. t.) A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.
(v. t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.
(v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.
(v. t.) A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.
(v. t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart.
(v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.
(v. t.) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.
(v. t.) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.
(v. t.) The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.
(v. t.) A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.
(v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.
(v. t.) Power; influence.
(v. t.) Appetite.
(v. t.) To strike.
(v. t.) To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.
(v. t.) To make smooth by rubbing.
(v. t.) To give a finely fluted surface to.
(v. t.) To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.
Typist: Sophie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Blow, knock, rap, pat, hit, thump.[2]. Attack, shock.[3]. Affliction, reverse, calamity, hardship, misfortune, visitation.[4]. Touch, dash, sudden effort, sudden effect.
v. a. Rub gently (with the hands, in one direction).
Editor: Vanessa
Definition
n. a blow: a sudden attack: calamity: the sound of a clock: a dash in writing: the sweep of an oar in rowing the aftmost oar of a boat: the movement of the piston of a steam-engine: the touch of a pen or pencil: any characteristic feature: an effective action a feat a masterly effort: a mental act the action of any faculty of the mind.—v.t. and v.i. to act as stroke for to row the stroke-oar of a boat.—n. Stroke′-oar the aftmost oar in a boat or its rower whose stroke leads the rest.
v.t. to rub gently in one direction: to rub gently in kindness.—ns. Strōk′er; Strōk′ing.
obsolete pa.p. of strike.
Typed by Hiram
Examples
- This was a very primitive device, requiring several minutes for the engine to make one stroke, but it was the beginning of the practical use of steam as a motive power. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- We have opened all the public-houses in the place, and left our adversary nothing but the beer-shops--masterly stroke of policy that, my dear Sir, eh? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But no one knows so well as the Secretary, who opens and reads the letters, what a set is made at the man marked by a stroke of notoriety. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- That was a lucky stroke of hers about the child torn from her arms shrieking. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Granny had a slight stroke last night. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He was divided entirely between his spirit, which stood outside, and knew, and his body, that was a plunging, unconscious stroke of blood. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He watched me, still; he gently raised his hand to stroke my hair; it touched my lips in passing; I pressed it close, I paid it tribute. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The twelve strokes sounded, she grew docile, and would meekly lie down. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The exhaust valve is then closed, the inlet valve opened, and another cycle of four strokes begins. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The pint-pots were great strokes of genius: but the milk-can was a perfect masterpiece. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- His warning voice was unheard, for the din which the knight himself occasioned by his strokes upon the postern would have drowned twenty war-trumpets. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In the 4-cycle type of gas engines (Fig. 130)--the kind used in automobiles--the four strokes are as follows: 1. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The upright strokes in each indicate the number of the crew, and the bird represents a chief, The Kingfisher. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The average performance of the engines was 26 strokes per minute, and the number of revolutions of the screw in the same time was 138?. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- With one of these in his fingers, Sam approached the colt, stroked and patted, and seemed apparently busy in soothing his agitation. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They lay there and he felt her heart beating against his and with the side of his foot he stroked very lightly against the side of hers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And now he unknit his black brows; looked down, smiling at me, and stroked my hair, as if well pleased at seeing a danger averted. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The Count stroked one of his white mice reflectively with his chubby little finger before he answered. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I stroked her hair and patted her shoulder. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The old gentleman softly stroked the hair off her forehead, and, stooping down, he kissed her, saying, in a tone few people ever heard. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She gently turned his head away, saying, as she stroked the wavy hair which had been allowed to grow for her sake--how touching that was, to be sure! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- My lady's tongue is like the meadow blades, That cut you stroking them with idle hand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But, on stroking her cheek in a caressing way soon after, he was almost shocked to find her face wet with tears. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It will be an immense care for Jo, said Meg, stroking the head of her one all-absorbing son. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Yes: lively reading that was, said Mr. Ned Van Alstyne, stroking his moustache to hide the smile behind it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- You know what you forbade me at the Maypoling, miss, murmured the lad, without looking at her, and still stroking the firedog's head. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Rouncewell's is so great apparently, mutters the trooper, stroking his chin, that I have as good as half a mind to go back again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Edited by Davy