stroke
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
stroke
n 1: (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"
[syn: {stroke}, {shot}]
2: the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating
piece by a cam [syn: {throw}, {stroke}, {cam stroke}]
3: a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or
occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
[syn: {stroke}, {apoplexy}, {cerebrovascular accident},
{CVA}]
4: a light touch
5: a light touch with the hands [syn: {stroke}, {stroking}]
6: (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the
ball with a club; "Nicklaus won by three strokes"
7: the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace
for the rest of the crew
8: anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an
apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident";
"the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an
accident or fortuity" [syn: {accident}, {stroke}, {fortuity},
{chance event}]
9: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of
information [syn: {solidus}, {slash}, {virgule}, {diagonal},
{stroke}, {separatrix}]
10: a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush;
"she applied the paint in careful strokes"
11: any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used
for locomotion in swimming or rowing
12: a single complete movement
v 1: touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions; "He
stroked his long beard"
2: strike a ball with a smooth blow
3: row at a particular rate
4: treat gingerly or carefully; "You have to stroke the boss"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stroke \Stroke\, n. [OE. strok, strook, strak, fr. striken. See
{Strike}, v. t.]
1. 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.
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His hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down
the tree. --Deut. xix.
5.
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A fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth
calleth for strokes. --Prov. xviii.
6.
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He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples
without striking a stroke. --Bacon.
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2. The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction;
soreness.
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In the day that Lord bindeth up the breach of his
people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
--Isa. xxx.
26.
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3. The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
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Well, but what's o'clock?
- Upon the stroke of ten. -- Well, let is strike.
--Shak.
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4. A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a
stroking. --Dryden.
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5. A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch
of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.
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O, lasting as those colors may they shine,
Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line.
--Pope.
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6. Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written
composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes
to an essay. --Addison.
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7. 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.
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At this one stroke the man looked dead in law.
--Harte.
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8. A throb or beat, as of the heart. --Tennyson.
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9. 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.; also:
(Rowing)
(a) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.
(b) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the
other oars are guided; -- called also {stroke oar}.
(c) The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.
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10. 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.
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11. (Mach.) 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.
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Note: The respective strokes are distinguished as up and down
strokes, outward and inward strokes, forward and back
strokes, the forward stroke in stationary steam engines
being toward the crosshead, but in locomotives toward
the front of the vehicle.
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12. Power; influence. [Obs.] "Where money beareth [hath] all
the stroke." --Robynson (More's Utopia).
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He has a great stroke with the reader. --Dryden.
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13. Appetite. [Obs.] --Swift.
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{To keep stroke}, to make strokes in unison.
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The oars where silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke. --Shak.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stroke \Stroke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Strokeed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Strokeing}.] [OE. stroken, straken, AS. str[=a]cian, fr.
str[imac]can to go over, pass. See {Strike}, v. t., and cf.
{Straggle}.]
1. To strike. [Obs.]
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Ye mote with the plat sword again
Stroken him in the wound, and it will close.
--Chaucer.
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2. To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the
hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or
tenderness; to caress; to soothe.
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He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind,
He stroked her cheeks. --Dryden.
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3. To make smooth by rubbing. --Longfellow.
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4. (Masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.
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5. To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
496 Moby Thesaurus words for "stroke":
Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, abuse,
access, accomplished fact, accomplishment, ache, achievement,
aching, act, acta, action, activated epilepsy, ad hoc measure,
adventure, affect epilepsy, akinetic epilepsy, aneurysm, angina,
angina pectoris, answer, aortic insufficiency, aortic stenosis,
apoplectic stroke, apoplexy, approach, arrest, arrhythmia,
arteriosclerosis, artifice, assay, atherosclerosis,
atrial fibrillation, attack, attempt, auricular fibrillation,
autonomic epilepsy, band, bang, bar, bash, bat, beat, beating,
belt, beriberi heart, bid, biff, bit, blarney, bleed, bleed white,
blockage, blow, bonk, breakup, breath, brush, butter, butter up,
cardiac arrest, cardiac epilepsy, cardiac insufficiency,
cardiac shock, cardiac stenosis, cardiac thrombosis, carditis,
caress, cataclysm, catalepsy, cataplexy, chop, climax, clip,
clonic spasm, clonus, clout, clump, congenital heart disease,
contact, contrivance, convulsion, cor biloculare, cor juvenum,
cor triatriatum, coronary, coronary insufficiency,
coronary thrombosis, cortical epilepsy, countermove, coup,
course of action, crack, cramp, cross-hatching, cursive epilepsy,
cut, cutaneous sense, dash, dealings, deed, delineation, demarche,
device, diagonal, diastolic hypertension, diastrophism, dig, dint,
diplegia, dirty work, disaster, distress, diurnal epilepsy, dodge,
doing, doings, dolor, donkeywork, dotted line, drain, drub,
drubbing, drudgery, drumming, eclampsia, effort, embolism,
employment, encased heart, endeavor, endocarditis, enterprise,
epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor,
epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy,
epitasis, essay, example, expedient, experiment, exploit,
extrasystole, fag, fait accompli, falling sickness, fatigue,
fatty heart, feat, feel, feel up, feeling, fibroid heart,
fingertip caress, fit, flash, flask-shaped heart, flick, fling,
flourish, focal epilepsy, fondle, frenzy, frictionize,
frosted heart, fusillade, gambit, gest, gesture, get around,
gimmick, glance, go, grand mal, graze, grief, grind, grip, hachure,
hairline, hairy heart, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second,
half a shake, hand, hand-mindedness, handiwork, handwork,
happening, hatching, haute mal, heart attack, heart block,
heart condition, heart disease, heart failure, hemiplegia,
high blood pressure, hint, hit, honey, hurt, hypertension,
hypertensive heart disease, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, ill-use,
impose upon, improvisation, industry, infantile paralysis, injury,
instant, iota, ischemic heart disease, jab, jiff, jiffy, job,
jolly, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, kid along, kiss, knead,
knock, labor, lambency, lap, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy,
laryngospasm, last expedient, last resort, last shift,
latent epilepsy, lay it on, lesion, lick, lick of work,
light touch, line, lineation, lockjaw, make use of, makeshift,
maneuver, manipulate, manual labor, mark, massage, matter,
matutinal epilepsy, means, measure, menstrual epilepsy,
microsecond, milk, millisecond, minute, misuse,
mitral insufficiency, mitral stenosis, moil, moment, motion, move,
movement, musicogenic epilepsy, myocardial infarction,
myocardial insufficiency, myocarditis, myoclonous epilepsy,
myovascular insufficiency, nasty blow, nocturnal epilepsy, nose,
nuzzle, occlusion, occurrence, offer, oil, operation, orgasm,
overdo it, overt act, overthrow, ox heart, pain, palpitation,
palsy, pang, paralysis, paralytic stroke, paraplegia, paresis,
paroxysm, paroxysmal tachycardia, passage, passion, pat, pelt,
performance, pericarditis, pet, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy,
pile, pis aller, play on, play up to, plunk, poke, polio,
poliomyelitis, pound, premature beat, presume upon, proceeding,
production, pseudoaortic insufficiency, psychic epilepsy,
psychomotor epilepsy, pulmonary insufficiency, pulmonary stenosis,
pulsation, pulse, punch, quake, rap, rat race, reflex epilepsy,
res gestae, resort, resource, rheumatic heart disease, rotatoria,
round heart, rub, rub against, rub down, rub noses, sclerosis,
score, scrap, scut work, sec, second, seizure, sense of touch,
sensory epilepsy, sensory paralysis, serial epilepsy,
sexual climax, shake, shake-up, shift, shock, shot, slam, slash,
slavery, slog, slug, smack, smash, soap, sock, soft-soap,
soften up, solution, soothe, sore, sore spot, spadework, spasm,
splash, split second, stab, step, stitch, stony heart, stopgap,
stoppage, stratagem, streak, streaking, stress, stress of life,
striation, strike, string along, strip, stripe, striping,
stroke of policy, stroke of work, strong bid, stunt, sublineation,
suck dry, suffering, suggestion, swat, sweat, swing, swipe,
tachycardia, tactic, tactile sense, taction, take advantage of,
tap, tardy epilepsy, task, tattoo, temblor, temporary expedient,
tender spot, tentative, tentative poke, tetanus, tetany, thing,
thing done, throb, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, thump,
thwack, tick, tidal wave, tiresome work, toil, tonic epilepsy,
tonic spasm, torsion spasm, touch, tour de force, transaction,
traumatic epilepsy, travail, treadmill, trial, trial and error,
trice, trick, tricuspid insufficiency, tricuspid stenosis, trismus,
trump, try, tsunami, turn, turtle heart, twink, twinkle, twinkling,
twitch, two shakes, ucinate epilepsy, underline, underlining,
underscore, underscoring, undertaking, upheaval, use, use ill,
varicose veins, varix, ventricular fibrillation, virgule,
visitation, wallop, whack, whisper, whop, wink, work, work on,
work upon, working hypothesis, working proposition, works, wound,
wrench, yerk
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