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stroke
English
- 🔊 a light touch with the hands
- 🔊 a single complete movement
- 🔊 (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”
- 🔊 any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing
- 🔊 a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush“she applied the paint in careful strokes”
- 🔊 a light touch
- 🔊 the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew
- 🔊 (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club“Nicklaus won by three strokes”
- 🔊 a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
- 🔊 anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause“winning the lottery was a happy accident”
- 🔊 the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- 🔊 a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
- 🔊 treat gingerly or carefully“You have to stroke the boss”
- 🔊 strike a ball with a smooth blow
- 🔊 row at a particular rate
- 🔊 touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions“He stroked his long beard”
Spanish
- 🔊 accidente cerebrovascular stroke
- 🔊 brazada stroke
- 🔊 acariciar to stroke
- 🔊 mesar to stroke
- 🔊 ictus stroke, ictus
- 🔊 hacer piojito to stroke, scratch or massage fondly (someone)'s scalp with one's fingers