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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 strokes
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Light and dark become broad strokes to emphasize the mood he's trying to create.
From the sacbee.com
Barber also holds the record among tour pros for the most strokes below his age.
From the ocregister.com
The poor saps, they credited it to Adam Scott, believing he won by four strokes.
From the dailymail.co.uk
In 1988, aspirin was approved in low doses to prevent heart attacks and strokes.
From the suntimes.com
The Cardinals'women shot 305-915 to finish 13 strokes behind the Fighting Irish.
From the courier-journal.com
After a big gulp of air I head down to the sea bed with long strokes of my fins.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Painting strokes were less detailed than earlier oil paintings on wooden boards.
From the theepochtimes.com
History is traced not in straight lines but in jagged and discontinuous strokes.
From the economist.com
She'd had a stroke and mini-strokes over the last four weeks, her son Dave said.
From the toledoblade.com
- (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.
