Stroke

Noun

 * 1) An act of stroking moving one's hand over a surface.
 * She gave the cat a stroke.
 * 1) A blow or hit.
 * a stroke on the chin
 * 1) A single movement with a tool.
 * 2)  A single act of striking at the ball with a club.
 * 3)  The hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
 * 4)  The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the vessel or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull.
 * 5)  The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
 * 6) A thrust of a piston.
 * 7) A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement.
 * 8)  The symbol /:.
 * 9)  A line of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character.
 * 10) The time when a clock strikes.
 * on the stroke of midnight
 * 1) A particular style of swimming.
 * butterfly stroke
 * 1)  The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
 * 2)  The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.
 * 3)  Backstage influence.
 * 4)  A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.

Synonyms

 * caress
 * blow, hit
 * blow
 * shot
 * push, thrust
 * stroke of the pen
 * brushstroke
 * forward slash, shilling sign , slant, slash , solidus, virgule
 * hour
 * cerebrovascular accident, CVA
 * brushstroke
 * forward slash, shilling sign , slant, slash , solidus, virgule
 * hour
 * cerebrovascular accident, CVA
 * cerebrovascular accident, CVA

Derived terms

 * at a stroke
 * at one stroke
 * backstroke
 * breaststroke
 * brushstroke
 * butterfly stroke
 * different strokes for different folks
 * down to the short strokes
 * four-stroke engine


 * government stroke
 * keystroke
 * masterstroke
 * multistroke
 * short strokes
 * stroke of genius
 * stroke of luck
 * stroke of work
 * stroke order
 * two-stroke engine

Verb

 * 1)  To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.
 * 2)  To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.

Adverbs for Stroke
reflectively; meditatively; caressingly; affectionately;  tenderly;   absently;   moodily; gently.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
From <  *undefined:, an unattested noun on the basis of the verb stracian:.

Etymology 2
From stracian:.

Noun

 * Armenian: շոյում
 * Catalan: carícia
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Italian:
 * Polish: głaskanie
 * Portuguese: carícia
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: strykning


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: cop
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,


 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: pancada
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: slag


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese: tacada
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Swedish: slag, drag, hugg


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese: pancada
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Swedish: slag, hugg


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese: tacada
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: slag


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: raquetada
 * Swedish: slag


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:, , , colpo di remo


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tag, årtag


 * Finnish:
 * Italian: ,


 * Swedish: slag


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Italian: ,
 * Swedish: slag


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: streek
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: traço
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: drag, streck


 * Finnish:
 * French: barre oblique


 * Swedish: snedstreck, streck


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: streek
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: pincelada
 * Spanish: pincelada
 * Swedish: drag


 * Chinese: 筆畫, 笔画 (bǐhuà); 筆, 笔 (bǐ)
 * Japanese: ,


 * Russian:


 * Czech:, bití
 * Dutch: klokslag
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: badalada
 * Swedish: slag, klockslag


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: חתירה


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: braçada
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tag, simtag


 * Armenian: կաթված
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: apopleksi,
 * Esperanto: apopleksio
 * Finnish:
 * French: accident vasculaire cérébral, attaque cérébrale, AVC
 * German: ,


 * Hebrew: שבץ מוחי
 * Italian: colpo apoplettico,
 * Japanese: 脳梗塞
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: apoplejía, accidente cerebro vascular
 * Swedish: stroke, slag, slaganfall


 * German:


 * Italian:


 * Portuguese: pancada

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian: silitama
 * Finnish:, pyyhkiä, sivellä
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: なでる


 * Latin:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Scots: straik
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: stryka
 * Turkish: sıvazlamak, okşamak
 * West Frisian:


 * Finnish: pyyhkäistä


 * Swedish: slå

Anagrams

 * stoker
 * tokers