Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word STROKE

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Definitions of STROKE

1. An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
2. A movement similar to that of hitting.
3. To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom or brush) along (a surface) in one direction, touching it lightly; to caress.
4. An act of moving one's hand or an object along a surface in one direction, touching it lightly; a caress.
5. An individual social interaction whereby one gives another attention or recognition.
6. (figuratively)
7. (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning, particularly if causing damage.
8. (obsolete)
9. (transitive)
10. (intransitive)
11. (also, figuratively) To bring (something) to a certain condition by stroking (sense 1).
12. (agriculture) To milk (a cow or other animal); especially, to squeeze the teat of (a cow, etc.) to extract the last bit of milk from the udder; to strap (dialectal), to strip.
13. (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to (stone) by carving it with a tool.
14. (medicine) A sudden interruption of blood supply to the brain, causing minor to major brain damage and possible death.

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Examples of Using STROKE in a Sentence

• The major causes are stroke and head trauma; prevalence is hard to determine, but aphasia due to stroke is estimated to be 0.
• Several variations exist that differ in when and how a stroke may be legally played, when points are scored, the layout of the lawn, and the target score.
• The simpler way is the static compression ratio: the ratio of the volume of the cylinder when the piston is at the bottom of its stroke to that volume when the piston is at the top of its stroke.
• A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc.
• Either hemiparesis or hemiplegia can result from a variety of medical causes, including congenital conditions, trauma, tumors, traumatic brain injury and stroke.
• They are usually associated with multiple sclerosis or pertussis, but they may also be observed in other disorders such as encephalitis, head trauma, stroke, autism, asthma, trigeminal neuralgia, breath-holding spells, epilepsy, malaria, tabes dorsalis, and Behçet's disease, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH).
• In handwriting, it was common not to close the bottom of the loop but continue into the leg, saving an extra pen stroke.
• In Boolean functions and propositional calculus, the Sheffer stroke denotes a logical operation that is equivalent to the negation of the conjunction operation, expressed in ordinary language as "not both".
• A transient ischemic attack (TIA), commonly known as a mini-stroke, is a minor stroke whose noticeable symptoms usually end in less than an hour.
• Green died on December 24, 2000, in Los Angeles, California, from complications of a stroke he suffered earlier that year.
• William I of Prussia becomes regent for his brother, Frederick William IV, who has suffered a stroke.
• August 9 - 11 – Emperor Trajan dies of a stroke at Selinus in Cilicia, age 63, while en route from Mesopotamia to Italy, leaving the Roman Empire at its maximal territorial extent.
• The aging King Charles XIV John would suffer a stroke on his 81st birthday in 1844, dying little more than a month later.
• A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen in a "flood stroke" to fill the open mesh apertures with ink, and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a line of contact.
• In December 1943, the year after Goscinny graduated from lycée or high school, his father died of a cerebral hemorrhage (stroke).
• It was the first swimming stroke used by ancient humans, believed to have been learned by observing animals swim.
• After Brezhnev suffered a stroke in 1975 that significantly impaired his ability to govern, Andropov began to increasingly dictate Soviet policymaking alongside Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Defense Minister Andrei Grechko and Grechko's successor, Marshal Dmitry Ustinov.
• Risk factors for pneumonia include cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sickle cell disease, asthma, diabetes, heart failure, a history of smoking, a poor ability to cough (such as following a stroke), and a weak immune system.
• In the battlefield the surcoat was also helpful with keeping the sun off the soldier and their armor which helped prevent heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
• It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names.

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