| stroke | |
| 1. n. An act of stroking (moving one's hand over a surface). | |
| She gave the cat a stroke. | |
| 2. n. A blow or hit. | |
| a stroke on the chin | |
| 3. n. A single movement with a tool. | |
| 4. n. (golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club. | |
| 5. n. (tennis) The hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact. | |
| 6. n. (rowing) The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the vessel or a single entire cycle of movement includi | |
| 7. n. (cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot. | |
| 8. n. A thrust of a piston. | |
| 9. n. An act of striking with a weapon | |
| 10. n. One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished. | |
| the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or of an oar in rowing | |
| the stroke of a skater, swimmer, etc. | |
| 11. n. A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort. | |
| a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy | |
| 12. n. A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement, particularly: | |
| 13. n. (UK) label, en, UK, typography The slash, /. | |
| 14. n. (Unicode) The formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in A̶ and A̵). | |
| 15. n. (linguistics) A line of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character. | |
| 16. n. A streak made with a brush. | |
| 17. n. The time when a clock strikes. | |
| on the stroke of midnight | |
| 18. n. (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style. | |
| butterfly stroke | |
| 19. n. (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted. | |
| 20. n. (obsolete) A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity. | |
| a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death | |
| 21. n. (rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided. | |
| 22. n. (rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat. | |
| 23. n. (professional wrestling) Backstage influence. | |
| 24. n. (squash) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent. | |
| 25. n. (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning. | |
| A flash of lightning may be made up of several strokes. If they are separated by enough time for the eye to distinguish them, the lightning will appear to flicker. | |
| 26. n. (obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness. | |
| 27. n. An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch. | |
| to give some finishing strokes to an essay | |
| 28. n. A throb or beat, as of the heart. | |
| 29. n. Power; influence. | |
| 30. n. (obsolete) appetite | |
| 31. v. To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction. | |
| 32. v. (transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion. | |
| 33. v. (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to. | |
| 34. v. (transitive, rowing) To row the stroke oar of. | |
| to stroke a boat | |
