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epilepsy
English
Etymology
Since 16th century; borrowed from Old French epilepsie, from Latin epil?psia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (epil?psía), from ?????????? (epilambán?, “I seize”), from ??? (epí, “upon”) + ??????? (lambán?, “I take”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??p?l?psi/
- Hyphenation: ep?i?lep?sy
Noun
epilepsy (countable and uncountable, plural epilepsies)
- (pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
Derived terms
- epileptic
- epileptiform
Translations
See also
- falling sickness
- grand mal
- petit mal
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stroke
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)
- An act of stroking (moving one's hand over a surface).
- 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.
- A single movement with a tool.
- (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.
- (tennis) The hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
- (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.
- (cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
- A thrust as of a piston or of the penis during sexual intercourse.
- An act of striking with a weapon
- One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
- A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort.
- A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement, particularly:
- (Britain, typography) The slash, /.
- (Unicode, typography) The formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in A? and A?).
- (linguistics) A line of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character.
- A streak made with a brush.
- The time when a clock strikes.
- (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.
- (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
- (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.
- 1767, Walter Harte, Eulogius: Or, The Charitable Mason
- (rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.
- (rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.
- (professional wrestling) Backstage influence.
- (squash (sport)) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
- (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.
- (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
- An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)
- A throb or beat, as of the heart.
- Power; influence.
- 1551, Ralph Robynson More's Utopia
- where money beareth all the stroke
- He has a great stroke with the reader.
- 1551, Ralph Robynson More's Utopia
- (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.
- Lady Answ. God bless you, colonel, you have a good stroke with you.
- 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)
- (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.
- (transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.
- (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.
- (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)
- (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)
- Any striking or hitting motion:
- A strike or hit from a weapon or instrument of torture}}
- A strike or hit from one's hands or other limbs
- A strike or hit from a tool against an object.
- The force of death; the origin or effect of one's demise.
- (Late Middle English) The feeling of an intense emotion or mood.
- (Late Middle English) The process of making a striking or hitting motion.
- A loud sound caused by weather (e.g. heavy rain)
- The result of a striking or hitting motion; a wound.
- (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
- Alternative form of stroken
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
stroke
- past participle of stryka
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