different between stroke vs handsy

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

English

Etymology

hands +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hændzi/

Adjective

handsy (comparative handsier, superlative handsiest)

1. (informal) Prone to touching other people with one's hands, especially inappropriately.
   • 2008, Lisa Plumley, Home for the Holidays, Zebra Books (2008), ?ISBN, page 96:

     "Listen up." Nate nodded at Angela's root beer. "That's what you should drink on your date with Patrick the Prick. So you'll be alert if he gets all handsy with you."

     "He won't get handsy. We're just having coffee.

   • 2008, Phoebe Reilly, "Thick As Thieves", Spin, September 2008:

     A more pressing struggle is the one Crystal Castles have to contend with each night: feral fanboys who use Glass' aggressiveness as an excuse to get handsy. "They usually get a mic stand to the head," says Glass, with a shrug [...]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:handsy.
2. (golf) Moving the hands and wrists excessively when making a stroke or swing.
   • 1991, Jaime Diaz, "Pavin Is Making a Strong Bid to Join Game's Elite", The New York Times, 26 May 1991:

     At a wiry 5 feet 9 inches and 140 pounds, with a handsy, almost ungainly swing, Pavin lacked the power and solid technique that have been the foundation of success for most of the game's elite players.

Synonyms

• (prone to touching others): groping, tactile, touchy-feely

Translations

Anagrams

• shandy