different between action vs stroke

English

Etymology

From Middle English accion, from Old French aucion,acciun, from Latin ?cti? (“act of doing or making”), from ?ctus, perfect passive participle of ag? (“do, act”), + action suffix -i?; see act.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æk.??n/
• Rhymes: -æk??n
• Hyphenation: ac?tion

Noun

action (countable and uncountable, plural actions)

1. Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
2. A way of motion or functioning.

3. Fast-paced activity.

4. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.

5. (music) The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
6. (music) The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on a guitar.
7. (slang) Sexual intercourse.

8. (military) Combat.

9. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
10. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to act on the other object. In any given context, action is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or left group action.
11. (physics) The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
12. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
13. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
14. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
15. (obsolete) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.
    • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 106:

      So saying he presented him with two actions of above two thousand livres each.

    • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

      the Euripus of funds and actions

Synonyms

• (something done): deed; see also Thesaurus:action

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? German: Action
• ? Russian: ???? (ekšn)

Translations

See also

• deed
• Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

References

• action on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Interjection

action!

1. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance.

   Antonym: cut

Translations

Verb

action (third-person singular simple present actions, present participle actioning, simple past and past participle actioned)

1. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
2. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

Usage notes

• The verb sense action is rejected by some usage authorities.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989
• Notes:

Further reading

• action in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• action in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Catino, actino-, atonic, cation, cation-?

French

Etymology

From Old French acciun, aucion, etymologically reconstructed in Middle French to resemble the Latin acti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak.sj??/
• Homophone: axion

Noun

action f (plural actions)

1. action, act, deed

2. campaign

3. stock, share

4. (Switzerland) a special offer

Derived terms

Further reading

• “action” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cation, contai

Interlingua

Noun

action (plural actiones)

1. action

Related terms

• active
• activitate

Middle English

Noun

action

1. Alternative form of accion

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French acciun, aucion, etymologically reconstructed to resemble the Latin acti?.

Noun

action f (plural actions)

1. action; act

Descendants

• French: action

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English accion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak???n/

Noun

action (plural actions)

1. action

Verb

action (third-person singular present actions, present participle actionin, past actiont, past participle actiont)

1. to action

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st???k/
• (General American) enPR: str?k, IPA^(key): /st?o?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle English stroke, strok, strak, from Old English str?c (“stroke”), from Proto-West Germanic *straik (“stroke”), from Proto-Germanic *straikaz (“stroke”), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“stroke; to strike”). Cognate with Scots strak, strake, straik (“stroke, blow”), Middle Low German str?k (“stroke, trick, prank”), German Streich (“stroke”). In its British sense as a name for the slash ??/??, a contraction of oblique stroke, a variant of oblique originally employed in telegraphy.

Alternative forms

• stroak (obsolete)

Noun

stroke (plural strokes)

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

2. A blow or hit.

   • His hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree.

   • He likewise entered and won in effect the whole kingdom of Naples itself, without striking stroke.

3. A single movement with a tool.
   1. (golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club. Also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.
   2. (tennis) The hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
   3. (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.
   4. (cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
   5. A thrust as of a piston or of the penis during sexual intercourse.
   6. An act of striking with a weapon
4. One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.

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

6. A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement, particularly:
   1. (Britain, typography) The slash, /.
   2. (Unicode, typography) The formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in A? and A?).
   3. (linguistics) A line of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character.
7. A streak made with a brush.
8. The time when a clock strikes.
9. (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.
10. (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.

11. (obsolete) A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.
    • 1767, Walter Harte, Eulogius: Or, The Charitable Mason

      At this one stroke the man look'd dead in law.

12. (rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.
13. (rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.
14. (professional wrestling) Backstage influence.
15. (squash (sport)) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
16. (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.

17. (obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.

    • in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound

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

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

19. A throb or beat, as of the heart.
20. Power; influence.
    • 1551, Ralph Robynson More's Utopia

      where money beareth all the stroke

    • He has a great stroke with the reader.
21. (obsolete) Appetite.
    • Lady Answ. God bless you, colonel, you have a good stroke with you.
      Col: O, madam, formerly I could eat all, but now I leave nothing; I eat but one meal a day.
22. In transactional analysis, a (generally positive) reaction to a person, fulfilling their needs or desires.

Synonyms

• (act of stroking, petting): caress
• (blow): blow, hit, beat
  • (act of striking with a weapon): blow
• (single movement with a tool):
  • (in golf):
  • (in tennis):
  • (in rowing):
  • (in cricket): shot
  • (thrust of a piston): push, thrust
• (made with a pen): stroke of the pen
  • (made with a brush): brushstroke
  • (symbol): See slash and strikethrough
• (time when a clock strikes): hour
• (particular style of swimming):
• (in medical sense): cerebrovascular accident, CVA
• (in wrestling):

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English stroken, straken, from Old English str?cian (“to stroke”), from Proto-West Germanic *straik?n (“to stroke, caress”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian strookje (“to stroke; caress”), West Frisian streakje (“to stroke; caress”), German Low German straken, strieken, strakeln, striekeln (“to stroke; caress; fondle”), German streicheln (“to stroke, fondle”).

Verb

stroke (third-person singular simple present strokes, present participle stroking, simple past and past participle stroked)

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

   • He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind, / He stroked her cheeks.

2. (transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.
3. (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.
4. (transitive, rowing) To row the stroke oar of.

Translations

See also

• strokes in the medical sense on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “stroke”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Kortes, Koster, Stoker, stoker, tokers, trokes

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• sztrók (equally correct since 2015)

Etymology

Borrowed from English stroke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?stro?k] (phonetic respelling: sztrók)
• Hyphenation: stroke
• Rhymes: -o?k

Noun

stroke (countable and uncountable, plural stroke-ok)

1. (medicine) stroke (loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted or a particular case of it)

   Synonyms: agyvérzés, (archaic) agyszélh?dés, (folksy) gutaütés, (folksy) szélütés

Declension

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English *str?c, from Proto-West Germanic *straik.

Alternative forms

• strok, strake, strak, strook, strooke

Pronunciation

• (Northern ME, Early ME) IPA^(key): /str??k/
• IPA^(key): /str??k/

Noun

stroke (plural strokes)

1. Any striking or hitting motion:
   1. A strike or hit from a weapon or instrument of torture}}
   2. A strike or hit from one's hands or other limbs
   3. A strike or hit from a tool against an object.
2. The force of death; the origin or effect of one's demise.
3. (Late Middle English) The feeling of an intense emotion or mood.
4. (Late Middle English) The process of making a striking or hitting motion.
5. A loud sound caused by weather (e.g. heavy rain)
6. The result of a striking or hitting motion; a wound.
7. (rare) A jerking or pulsing motion (e.g. a heartbeat)

Related terms

• stroken

Descendants

• English: stroke
• Scots: strake, straik, strak

References

• “str?k(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.

Etymology 2

From Old English str?cian, from Proto-West Germanic *straik?n.

Verb

stroke

1. Alternative form of stroken

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

stroke

1. past participle of stryka