Word Finder - stroke

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An act of stroking (moving one's hand over a surface).

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She gave the cat a stroke.

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A blow or hit.

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a stroke on the chin

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A single movement with a tool.

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One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.

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the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or of an oar in rowing

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A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort.

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a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy

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A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement, particularly:

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A streak made with a brush.

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The time when a clock strikes.

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on the stroke of midnight

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A style, a single movement within a style.

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butterfly stroke

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The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.

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A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.

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a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death

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The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.

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The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.

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Backstage influence.

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A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.

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An individual discharge of lightning.

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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.

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The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.

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An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.

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to give some finishing strokes to an essay

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A throb or beat, as of the heart.

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Power; influence.

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Appetite.

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In transactional analysis, a (generally positive) reaction to a person, fulfilling their needs or desires.

With one stroke he lopped the wood in half.

He had another stroke about half an hour ago.

Jessi went up the stairs and paused to stroke the purring cat.

As he spoke, he continued the light stroke of one thumb and trailed a finger down the side of her face and traced her jaw.

One stroke of luck, however, fell to him before his downfall.

I might have a stroke or a million other things.

Cynthia reached over to stroke Mrs. Lincoln as the cat began adding a steady purr to the conversation.

Vettor Pisani was placed in command, and by a stroke of naval genius he grasped the weakness of Doria's position.

Fortunately it chanced that another people, the Persians, had adopted the Assyrian wedge-shaped stroke as the foundation of a written character, but making that analysis of which the Assyrians had fallen short, had borrowed only so many characters as were necessary to represent the alphabetical sounds.

During the up or return stroke, on the other hand, the posterior margin rotates in a direction from below upwards and from before backwards, so that by a similar but reverse screwing motion the pinion attacks the air from beneath.".

Low dose aspirin helps to prevent blood clots forming inside arteries, which helps to prevent a further stroke.

The pattern strongly correlates with death rates from stroke in Europe.

The croquet stroke is unique to croquet stroke is unique to croquet, hence the name.

A CAT scan confirms the diagnosis of a stroke.

Thus, when the wing descends it draws after it a strong current, which, being met by the wing during its ascent, greatly increases the efficacy of the up stroke.

Similarly and conversely, when the wing ascends, it creates an upward current, which, being met by the wing when it descends, powerfully contributes to the efficiency of the down stroke.

If, again, the wing be suddenly elevated in a strictly vertical direction, as at c d, the wing as certainly darts upwards and forwards in a double curve to e, thus converting the vertical up strokes into an upward, oblique, forward stroke.

The down stroke with the artificial as with the natural wing is invariably converted into an oblique, downward and forward stroke.

The old idea was that the wings during the down stroke pushed the body of the bird in an upward and forward direction; in reality the wings do not push but pull, and in order to pull they must always be in advance of the body to be flown.

In this figure the spaces between the double dotted lines (c g, i b) represent the down strokes, the single dotted line (h, i) representing the up stroke.

If any one watches the horizontal or upward flight of a large bird he will observe that the posterior or flexible margin of the wing never rises during the down stroke to a perceptible extent, so that the under surface of the wing, as a whole, never looks backwards.

On the contrary, he will perceive that the under surface of the wing (during the down stroke) invariably looks forwards and forms a true kite with the horizon, the angles made by the kite varying at every part of the down stroke, as shown more particularly at c d e f g, i j k l m of fig.

It is furnished with springs at its root to contribute to its continued play, and is applied to the air by a direct piston action in such a way that it descends in a downward and forward direction during the down stroke, and ascends in an upward and forward direction during the up stroke.

During the up stroke of the piston the wing is very decidedly convex on its upper surface (a b c d, A A'); its under surface (e f g h, A A') being deeply concave and inclined obliquely upwards and forwards.

It thus evades, to a considerable extent, the air during the up stroke.

During the down stroke of the piston the wing is flattened out in every direction, and its extremities twisted in such a manner as to form two screws, as seen at a' b' c' d', e' f' g' h', B, B'.

In these circumstances the only possible deliverance was by a bold and decided stroke.

The stroke availed him nothing; for Bernard, who had power, notwithstanding, to get a condemnation passed at the council, did not rest a moment till a second condemnation was procured at Rome in the following year.

This was the crowning stroke of the Central India campaign, and practically put an end to the Mutiny, though the work of stamping out its embers went on for many months, and was only completed with the capture and execution of Tantia Topi in April 1859.

Leonardo, having remained unmolested at Milan for two months under the new regime, but knowing that Ludovico was preparing a great stroke for the re-establishment of his power, and that fresh convulsions must ensue, thought it best to provide for his own security.

The night of the 4th of August 1789 put an end to this contrast at one stroke and the further history of rural population came to depend entirely on the play of free competition and free contract.

Five days later he died suddenly in prison, probably by foul play, though it was given out that he had been carried off by a paralytic stroke.

With this stroke Marduk became the creator of the world, including mankind - again setting aside the far older claims of Bel to this distinction.

According as it is too great or too small, the stroke of the pendulum is shortened or lengthened by a screw.

They took shape most likely, not through one stroke of invention, but incidentally, as legends developed and astrological persuasions became defined.

His career was arrested by paralysis late in 1791, and a repetition of the stroke terminated his life.

The political stroke having failed, agrarianism again occupied the ground.

Whatever were their views as to the relations between ecclesiastical and secular jurisdiction, the French clergy, ruined by the dues levied by the papal court, ranged themselves on the national side with the nobility and the bourgeoisie; whereupon the king, with a bold stroke far ahead of his time, gave tit for tat.

By a stroke of the pen he suppressed Protestantism, while Pope Sixtus V., who had at first been unfavourable to the treaty of Joinville as a purely political act, though he eventually yielded to the solicitations of the League, excommunicated the two Bourbons, Henry and Cond.

The stroke of Ravaillacs knife caused a timely descent of the curtain upon this new and tragi-comic Trojan War.

New friends were wanted, for in 1792 Mrs Unwin had a paralytic stroke, and henceforth she was a hopeless invalid.

But every brand forged by the smith broke under Sigurd's stroke; till at last he fetched the fragments of the sword Gram, Odin's gift to his father, which Hiortis had carefully treasured.

Though to death he was wounded he struck so strong a stroke That from the shattered shield-rim forthwith out there broke Showers of flashing jewels; the shield in fragments lay.2 Then reproaching them for their cowardice and treachery, Siegfried fell dying "amid the flowers," while the knights gathered round lamenting.

Matter of fact and matter of knowledge are thus at a stroke dissevered.

To counter this stroke and to support the Saxon claim, the emperor Rudolph II.

Looking up into his sweet chocolate gaze, feeling the stroke of his hands on her face and neck, even the quickening of pulse — it was as if they had met all over again.

She succumbed to heat stroke and awaits a new air conditioner to feel better.

When the Pi leaves the myosin, the head binds the actin and the power stroke is released as the head bind actin.

His father, who suffered a stroke in 1961 which rendered him speechless, endured the agony in silence.

Stroke lesions to the left hemisphere can cause aphasia for sign that is analogous to the aphasias of speech.