Strike vs. Stroke

Strikeverb

To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.

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(physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.

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(transitive) To hit.

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(transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.

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(intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.

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(transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.

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To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.

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(transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.

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(intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.

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(transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.

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(transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.

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(transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.

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To have a sharp or severe effect.

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(transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.

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(intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.

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(intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.

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To impinge upon.

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(intransitive) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.

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(transitive) To impress, seem or appear (to).

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(transitive) To create an impression.

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(sports) To score a goal.

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To steal money.

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To take forcibly or fraudulently.

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To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.

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To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.

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To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.

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To touch; to act by appulse.

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(transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.

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(nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)

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(by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.

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To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).

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(intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.

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(intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.

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(dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.

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(intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.

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To make and ratify.

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To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.

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(masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.

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To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.

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To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.

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To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.

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(obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.

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To balance (a ledger or account).

Strikenoun

(baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.

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(bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.

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A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.

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A blow or application of physical force against something.

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(finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.

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An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.

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(cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.

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The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.

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(geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.

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An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.

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(obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.

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An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.

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(ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.

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(obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.

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The discovery of a source of something.

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A strike plate.

Strikeverb

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.

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To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.

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To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.

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To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.

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To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.

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To punish; to afflict; to smite.

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To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.

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To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.

Strikeverb

To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.

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To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind.

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To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.

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To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.

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To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.

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To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.

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To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.

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To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.

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To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.

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To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars.

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To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.

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To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.

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To advance; to cause to go forward; - used only in past participle.

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To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields.

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To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.

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To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.

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To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes.

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To make an attack; to aim a blow.

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To touch; to act by appulse.

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To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.

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To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.

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To break forth; to commence suddenly; - with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run.

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To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.

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To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.

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To become attached to something; - said of the spat of oysters.

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To steal money.

Strikenoun

The act of striking.

Strikenoun

An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.

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A bushel; four pecks.

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An old measure of four bushels.

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Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.

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An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.

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The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, usually organized by a labor union, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer.

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A puddler's stirrer.

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The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip.

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The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.

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A sudden finding of rich ore in mining; hence, any sudden success or good fortune, esp. financial.

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The act of leveling all the pins with the first bowl; also, the score thus made. Sometimes called double spare. Throwing a strike entitles the player to add to the score for that frame the total number of pins knocked down in the next two bowls.

Strikenoun

Any actual or constructive striking at the pitched ball, three of which, if the ball is not hit fairly, cause the batter to be put out; hence, any of various acts or events which are ruled as equivalent to such a striking, as failing to strike at a ball so pitched that the batter should have struck at it.

Strikenoun

Same as Ten-strike.

Strikenoun

a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions;

Strikenoun

an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective;

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a pitch that is in the strike zone and that the batter does not hit;

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a gentle blow

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a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball;

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a conspicuous success;

Strikeverb

hit against; come into sudden contact with;

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deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon;

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have an emotional or cognitive impact upon;

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make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target;

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indicate (a certain time) by striking;

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affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely;

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stop work in order to press demands;

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touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly;

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attain;

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produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically;

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cause to form between electrodes of an arc lamp;

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find unexpectedly;

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produce by ignition or a blow;

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remove by erasing or crossing out;

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cause to experience suddenly;

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drive something violently into a location;

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occupy or take on;

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form by stamping, punching, or printing;

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smooth with a strickle;

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pierce with force;

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arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing;

Strokenoun

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

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A blow or hit.

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A single movement with a tool.

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(golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club.

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(tennis) The hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.

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(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 including the pull.

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(cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.

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A thrust of a piston.

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An act of striking with a weapon

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

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The slash, /.

Strokenoun

The formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in A̶ and A̵).

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(linguistics) A line of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character.

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A streak made with a brush.

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The time when a clock strikes.

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(swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.

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

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

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

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(rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.

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(professional wrestling) Backstage influence.

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

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(sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.

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(obsolete) 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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A throb or beat, as of the heart.

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Power; influence.

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(obsolete) appetite

Strokeverb

(transitive) To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.

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To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.

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(masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.

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To row the stroke oar of.

Stroke

Struck.

Strokenoun

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

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The striking of the clock to tell the hour.

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A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.

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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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Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.

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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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A throb or beat, as of the heart.

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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; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.

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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; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.

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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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Power; influence.

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Appetite.

Strokeverb

To strike.

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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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To make smooth by rubbing.

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To give a finely fluted surface to.

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To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.

Strokenoun

(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand;

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the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam

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a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain

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a light touch

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a light touch with the hands

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the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew

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a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

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a mark made by a writing implement (as in cursive writing)

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any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing

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a single complete movement

Strokeverb

touch lightly and with affection, with brushing motions;

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strike a ball with a smooth blow

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row at a particular rate

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treat gingerly or carefully;

Strokenoun

an act of hitting or striking someone or something; a blow

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a method of striking the ball in sports or games.

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an act of hitting the ball with a club, as a unit of scoring

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the sound made by a striking clock

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a mark made by drawing a pen, pencil, or paintbrush in one direction across paper or canvas

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a line forming part of a written or printed character.

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a short printed or written diagonal line typically separating characters or figures.

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an act of moving one's hand across a surface with gentle pressure

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each of a series of movements in which something moves out of its position and back into it

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the whole motion of a piston in either direction.

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the rhythm to which a series of repeated movements is performed

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a movement of the arms and legs forming one of a series in swimming

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a particular style of moving the arms and legs in swimming

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(in rowing) the mode or action of moving the oar.

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the oar or oarsman nearest the stern of a boat, setting the timing for the other rowers.

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a sudden disabling attack or loss of consciousness caused by an interruption in the flow of blood to the brain, especially through thrombosis

Strokeverb

move one's hand with gentle pressure over (a surface), typically repeatedly; caress

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apply (something) to a surface using a gentle movement

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reassure or flatter (someone), especially in order to gain their cooperation

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act as the stroke of (a boat or crew)

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hit or kick (a ball) smoothly and deliberately

Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding.