different between measure vs stroke

English

Etymology

From Middle English mesure, from Old French mesure, from Latin m?ns?ra (“a measuring, rule, something to measure by”), from m?nsus, past participle of m?t?r? (“to measure, mete”). Displaced native Middle English m?te, mete (“measure”) (from Old English met (“measure”), compare Old English mitta (“a measure”)), Middle English ameten, imeten (“to measure”) (from Old English ?metan, ?emetan (“to mete, measure”)), Middle English hof, hoof (“measure, reason”) (from Old Norse h?f (“measure, reason”)), Old English m?þ (“measure, degree”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m???/
• (regional US) IPA^(key): /?me???/
• Rhymes: -???(?)
• Hyphenation: meas?ure; mea?sure

Noun

measure (plural measures)

1. A prescribed quantity or extent.
   1. (obsolete) Moderation, temperance. [13th-19th c.]
      • c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I:

        Mesure is medcynee · þou? þow moche ?erne.

      • 1611, Bible, Authorized Version, Jer. XXX:

        I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.

   2. A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.) [from 14th c.]
      • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, V:

        Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend.

      • 2009, Mike Selvey, The Guardian, 25 Aug 2009:

        They have gloried to this day, the tedious interminable big-screen replays of that golden summer irritating beyond measure.

   3. An (unspecified) portion or quantity. [from 16th c.]
      • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]:

        It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.

2. The act or result of measuring.
   1. (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance. [from 14th c.]

   2. A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion. [from 14th c.]

   3. Any of various standard units of capacity. [from 14th c.]

   4. A unit of measurement. [from 14th c.]
      • 1993, Scientific American February 33.3:

        The fragments shrank by increments of about three kilodaltons (a measure of molecular weight).

   5. The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.) [from 14th c.]

      • The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

   6. (now rare) The act or process of measuring. [from 14th c.]

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

   7. A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements. [from 16th c.]
   8. (mathematics, now rare) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor. [from 16th c.]

      the greatest common measure of two or more numbers

   9. (geology) A bed or stratum. [from 17th c.]

      coal measures; lead measures

   10. (mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like. [from 20th c.]
3. Metrical rhythm.
   1. (now archaic) A melody. [from 14th c.]
   2. (now archaic) A dance. [from 15th c.]
   3. (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot. [from 15th c.]

      a poem in iambic measure

   4. (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar. [from 17th c.]
4. A course of action.
   1. (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans. [from 17th c.]
   2. A piece of legislation. [from 18th c.]

Synonyms

• (musical designation): bar
• (unit of measurement): metric

Hyponyms

• (mathematics): positive measure, signed measure, complex measure, Borel measure, ?-finite measure, complete measure, Lebesgue measure

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

measure (third-person singular simple present measures, present participle measuring, simple past and past participle measured)

1. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.

2. To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)

3. To estimate the unit size of something.

4. To judge, value, or appraise.
5. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
6. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
   • 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds

     "And for a very sensible reason; there never was but one like her; or, that is, I have always thought so until to-day," replied the tar, glancing toward Natalie; "for my old eyes have seen pretty much everything they have got in this little world. Ha! I should like to see the inch of land or water that my foot hasn't measured."

7. To adjust by a rule or standard.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     To secure a contented spirit, you must measure your desires by your fortune and condition, not your fortunes by your desires

8. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

   • With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

   • That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• “measure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• measure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• measure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• measure at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Reaumes

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