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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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finger
English
Etymology
From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”) (compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish finger), from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós, *penk?-ros (“fifth”) (compare Old Irish cóicer (“set of five people”), Old Armenian ??????-??? (hinger-ord, “fifth”)), from *pénk?e (“five”). More at five.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f????/
- (General American) enPR: f?ng?-g?r, IPA(key): /?f????/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /?f????/
- Rhymes: -????(?)
- Hyphenation: fin?ger
Noun
finger (plural fingers)
- (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
- 1916, The Finger Talk of Chicago's Wheat-Pit, Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 89, p. 81:
- Each finger extended represents one-eighth of a cent. Thus when all four fingers and the thumb are extended, all being spread out from one another, it means five-eighths.
- 1916, The Finger Talk of Chicago's Wheat-Pit, Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 89, p. 81:
- (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
- 1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, The How and Why Library, Life, Section VIII,
- The starfish eats with five fingers.
- The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
- One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
- One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
- 1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, The How and Why Library, Life, Section VIII,
- Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
- 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, p. 250:
- ...spires whose ‘silent finger points to Heaven’...
- (cooking) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
- 2014, Laurie David, The Family Cooks
- By now, we hope you have said “no” to processed nuggets and fingers. Instead, how about taking some real chicken, tossing it with real eggs, a little tangy mustard, and a crunchy quinoa coating?
- 2014, Laurie David, The Family Cooks
- (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
- 1996, Susan Trumbore, Mass Spectrometry of Soils, p. 318:
- An oven is placed over the finger with Co catalyst (oven temperature will depend on whether a quartz or Pyrex finger is used, see Ref. 24), and a cold finger (usually a copper rod immersed in dry ice–isopropanol slurry) is placed on the other tube.
- 1996, Susan Trumbore, Mass Spectrometry of Soils, p. 318:
- (Britain regional, botany, usually in in the plural, obsolete) Synonym of foxglove (D. purpurea).
- 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, p. 250:
- Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:
- a finger of land; a finger of smoke
- (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
- (anatomy, obsolete) A lobe of the liver.
- (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
- The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
- (nautical) Clipping of finger pier: a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock.
- (aviation) Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Exodus 8:19:
- The Magicians said vnto Pharaoh; This is the finger of God.
- (obsolete) Synonym of hand, the part of a clock pointing to the hour, minute, or second.
- (US, obsolete slang) A policeman or prison guard.
- (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
- (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
- (figuratively) That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
- The finger of suspicion pointed clearly at the hotel manager.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Exodus 8:19:
- (units of measure) Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
- (historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of 1?16 foot (about 1.9 cm).
- 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
- a piece of steel three fingers thick
- 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
- (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
- (historical) Synonym of digit: 1?12 the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
- (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
- Gimme three fingers of bourbon.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of 1?16 foot (about 1.9 cm).
- (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
- (informal, obsolete) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
- 1786, Thomas Busby, Musical Dictionary
- A performer capable of doing justice to rapid or expressive passages, is said to have a good finger
- 1786, Thomas Busby, Musical Dictionary
- (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
- (Britain slang) A person.
- (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
- (vulgar) The act of fingering, inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure.
Synonyms
- (anatomy): See Thesaurus:finger
- (zoology): toe (when on four legs); claw, talon (usually sharp)
- (finger-shaped objects): tendril (in plants)
- (airport walkway): See jet bridge
- (finger width): See digit
- (slang for police informer): See Thesaurus:informant
- (skill with the fingers): fingering technique; touch
- (British slang for person): bloke, lad, boy, guv
Hyponyms
- (anatomy): index finger, forefinger; middle finger; ring finger; little finger, pinkie; thumb, hallux
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: finga
Translations
See finger/translations § Noun.
Verb
finger (third-person singular simple present fingers, present participle fingering, simple past and past participle fingered)
- (transitive) To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in.
- (transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- (transitive) To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang
- 2008, Thomas Wainwright (editor), Erotic Tales, page 56:
- She smiled, a look of amazement on her face, as if thinking that maybe this was the cock that she had been fantasizing about just now, as she fingered herself to a massive, body-engulfing orgasm.
- 2008, Thomas Wainwright (editor), Erotic Tales, page 56:
- (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
- (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- (transitive, computing) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
- 1996, "Yves Bellefeuille", List of useful freeware, comp.archives.msdos.d, Usenet:
- PGP mail welcome (finger me for my key).
- 1996, "Yves Bellefeuille", List of useful freeware, comp.archives.msdos.d, Usenet:
- (obsolete) To steal; to purloin.
- (transitive, obsolete) To execute, as any delicate work.
Synonyms
- (to identify or point out): inform, grass up, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out
- (sexual): fingerbang, fingerfuck
Translations
See also
- artiodactyl
- dactyl
- dactylography
- dactylology
- fist
- macrodactyly
- perissodactyl
- prestidigitation
- pterodactyl
References
- "finger, n., in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Anagrams
- fringe
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fen??r/, [?fe???]
Noun
finger c (singular definite fingeren, plural indefinite fingre)
- finger
Inflection
Further reading
- finger on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Etymology 2
See fingere (“to simulate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fen??e?r/, [?fe???e????], [?fe???e???]
Verb
finger or fingér
- imperative of fingere
Middle English
Noun
finger
- Alternative form of fynger
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós.
Noun
finger m (definite singular fingeren, indefinite plural fingre or fingrer, definite plural fingrene)
- (anatomy) a finger
Derived terms
Related terms
- tommel
References
- “finger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós.
Noun
finger m (definite singular fingeren, indefinite plural fingrar, definite plural fingrane)
- (anatomy) a finger
Derived terms
Related terms
- tommel
References
- “finger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fingraz, which is from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós, *penk?-ros, a suffixed form of *pénk?e (“five”). Compare Old Frisian finger, Old Saxon fingar, Old High German fingar, Old Norse fingr, Gothic ???????????????????????? (figgrs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fin.?er/, [?fi?.?er]
Noun
finger m
- finger
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle English: fynger, finger, vinger, fyngir, fyngur, fyngyr, fiyngir, ffynger
- English: finger
- Sranan Tongo: finga
- Scots: finger
- Yola: vinger
- English: finger
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *penk?rós.
Noun
finger m
- finger
Inflection
Descendants
- North Frisian:
- Föhr-Amrum: fanger
- West Frisian: finger
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fi???r/
Noun
finger m
- finger
Declension
or (with neuter gender)
Descendants
- Swedish: finger
Spanish
Etymology
From English finger.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fin?e?/, [?f??.?e?]
- Hyphenation: fin?ger
Noun
finger m (plural fingeres)
- (food) finger
- (aviation, travel) jet bridge
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish finger, from Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f????r/
Noun
finger n or c
- (anatomy) a finger (the body part)
Declension
Usage notes
The neuter declension is much more common than the common declension.
Derived terms
See also
- hand
- knoge
- nagel
- tumme
References
- finger in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian finger, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f???r/
Noun
finger c (plural fingers, diminutive fingerke)
- finger
Further reading
- “finger”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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