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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)

  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

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tract

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t?ækt/
  • Homophone: tracked
  • Rhymes: -ækt

Etymology 1

From tractate, from Latin tractatus, or borrowed from Latin tractus, the perfect passive participle of trah?. Doublet of trait.

Noun

tract (plural tracts)

  1. An area or expanse.
    • a very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth
    • 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England
      small tracks of ground
  2. A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.
  3. A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
  4. A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
    • 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
      The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.
  5. A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
  6. Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XIV, Henry of Essex
      Nay, in another case of litigation, the unjust Standard bearer, for his own profit, asserting that the cause belonged not to St. Edmund’s Court, but to his in Lailand Hundred, involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time []
  7. Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
  8. (obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Older to this entry?)
  9. (obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Simulation and Dissimulation
      The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.
  10. (obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.
    • The Prophet Telemus [] mark'd the Tracts of every Bird that flew
  11. (obsolete) Track; trace.
    • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
      But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, / Leaving no tract behind.
  12. (obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
    • 1613, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act I, Scene I
      The tract of every thing Would, by a good discourser, lose some life Which action's self was tongue to.
Synonyms
  • (series of connected body organs): system
Related terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin tractus, the participle stem of trahere (to pull, drag).

Verb

tract (third-person singular simple present tracts, present participle tracting, simple past and past participle tracted)

  1. (obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
      Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?
  2. (obsolete) To draw out; to protract.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Anagrams

  • T-cart

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tract.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t?akt/

Noun

tract m (plural tracts)

  1. flyer, circular, pamphlet

Derived terms

  • tracter

Further reading

  • “tract” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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