different between stroke vs step

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

From Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-Germanic *stapjan? (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stab- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”). Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), Walloon steper (“to walk away, leave”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”) and further to Slavic Polish st?pa? (“to stomp, stamp, step, tread”), Russian ??????? (stupat?) and Polish stopie? (“step, stair, rung, degree”), Russian ??????? (stepen?). Related to stamp, stomp.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /st?p/
• Hyphenation: step
• Rhymes: -?p
• Homophone: steppe

Noun

step (plural steps)

1. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.

   • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:step.
2. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
   • 1624, Sir Henry Wotton, The Elements Of Architecture

     The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:step.
3. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.

4. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.

5. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.

   • To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy.

6. A small space or distance.

7. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
8. A gait; manner of walking.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:step.
9. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
   • 1717, Alexander Pope, Preface to his collection of poems

     The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.

   • c. 1792, William Cowper, The Needless Alarm

     Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.

   • 1879, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days

     I have lately taken steps […] to relieve the old gentleman's distresses.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Moon has also requested that government officials take additional steps to help fight pollution, his spokesman said.

10. (in the plural) A walk; passage.

    • Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.

11. (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
12. (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
13. (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
14. (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
15. (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.

    Usage note: The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.

16. (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of William Kingdon Clifford to this entry?)

17. (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.

18. (slang) A stepsibling.

Synonyms

• stride

Hyponyms

• back step, half step, etc. see under back, half, etc.
• cyclic step

Derived terms

• cross-step (a step in which one foot is crossed over another; the action of taking such a step or steps)
• step-by-step
• step-free
• stepmeal
• stepwise

Related terms

Translations

Verb

step (third-person singular simple present steps, present participle stepping, simple past stepped or (dated) stept or (obsolete) stope, past participle stepped or (dated) stept or (obsolete) stopen)

1. (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
2. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.

3. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.

   • Home from his Morning-Task , the Swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
5. (transitive) To set, as the foot.
   • 2010, Charles E. Miller, Winds of Mercy: 40 Short Stories (page 219)

     One of the women, Elsie, stepped her foot inside to help the woman.

6. (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
   • 1898, Joseph Conrad, Youth

     We put everything straight, stepped the long-boat's mast for our skipper, who was in charge of her, and I was not sorry to sit down for a moment.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• step-

Further reading

• step in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• step at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• EPTs, ESTP, PETs, Pest, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pest, pets, sept, sept-, spet

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?p/

Etymology 1

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Noun

step f

1. steppe

Declension

Etymology 2

From English step

Noun

step m inanimate

1. tap dance

Declension

Further reading

• step in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• step in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English step (“footrest on a bicycle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?p/
• Hyphenation: step
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

step f (plural steps, diminutive stepje n)

1. kick scooter

   Synonyms: autoped, trottinette

2. (dated) A mounting bracket on a bicycle.

Derived terms

• steppen

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s(?)t?p/
• Hyphenation: stèp

Etymology 1

From English step, from Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-Germanic *stapjan? (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stab- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”).

Noun

stèp (first-person possessive stepku, second-person possessive stepmu, third-person possessive stepnya)

1. step; pace, gait.

Etymology 2

From Dutch stuip (“convulsion”), from Middle Dutch st?pe, stupen, stuypen (“convulsion”, literally “to duck, to bend down”), from Old English stupian (“to stoop, bend over”) (compare to English stoop (“to bend”)), from Old Norse stúpa, from Proto-Germanic *st?p?n?, *st?pijan? (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”).

Noun

stèp (first-person possessive stepku, second-person possessive stepmu, third-person possessive stepnya)

1. (colloquial, medicine) convulsion.

   Synonym: setip

   Synonyms: sawan, kejang

Further reading

• “step” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Noun

step

1. Alternative form of steppe

Polish

Etymology

From Ukrainian ???? (step).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?p/

Noun

step m inan

1. (often in the plural) steppe

Declension

Further reading

• step in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• step in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From English step.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?step/, [?st?ep]

• IPA^(key): /es?tep/, [es?t?ep]

Noun

step m (uncountable)

1. step training