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stroke::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | accident, chance event, fortuity |
| Type of | natural event, occurrence, happening, occurrent |
| Has types | break, lottery, good luck, hap, happenstance, happy chance, coincidence |
the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck.
stroke::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | shot |
| Type of | maneuver, play, manoeuvre |
| Has types | tennis shot, baseball swing, break, cannon, carom, cut, golf shot, golf stroke, masse, masse shot, miscue, swing, swipe, tennis stroke, undercut |
it took two strokes to get out of the bunker.
stroke::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, virgule |
| Type of | punctuation, punctuation mark |
stroke::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident, cva |
| Type of | attack |
| Has types | haemorrhagic stroke, ischemic stroke, ischaemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke |
stroke::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | mark, print |
| Has types | flick, downstroke, underline, underscore, upstroke |
she applied the paint in careful strokes.
stroke::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | travel, locomotion |
| Has types | swimming stroke |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | row |
Examples of stroke
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Creek held a two-stroke lead at the turn after playing the front at 2-under par.
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Nearly a month later, the food maker announced Ms. Barnes had suffered a stroke.
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Schuette struggled to find his stroke in the first half and had just two points.
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To Mondale and his men, the need for a bold stroke became increasingly apparent.
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Pinter said fans thought she had suffered a stroke or had some dental work done.
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Barbara pinned the crash on a stroke caused by an underlying diabetes condition.
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Reports of deaths, heart attacks, bleeding and stroke were tracked through 2007.
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However, approaches to apply antioxidants have failed in clinical stroke trials.
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Camping, who has since suffered a stroke, has revised his prediction to Oct. 21.
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- (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand; "it took two strokes to get out of the bunker"; "a good shot requires good balance and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible shot"
- Touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions; "He stroked his long beard"
- Strike a ball with a smooth blow
- Throw: the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
- Row at a particular rate
- A stroke, known medically as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA), is the rapidly developing loss of brain function(s) due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. ...
- The CJK strokes (also known as the CJK(V) or CJKV strokes) are the strokes needed to write the Chinese characters used in East Asia. The corresponding CJKV characters being the characters that come from Chinese Hanzi, and which are now used in China, Japan, Korea, and still a little in Vietnam.
- A bar or stroke is a modification consisting of a line drawn through a grapheme. It may be used as a diacritic to derive new letters from old ones, or simply as an addition to make a grapheme more distinct from others.
