| 单词 | winning stroke |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswinning stroke 2. Gaining, or resulting in, victory or superiority in a contest or competition; victorious. In U.S. colloquial use also in superlative. winning hazard: see winning hazard at hazard n. 5b. winning stroke, a stroke that gains a point in a game, or one by which the game is won. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [adjective] > winning winning1599 obtaining1803 society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [adjective] > winning winning1599 lurching1604 society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [noun] > actions exchange1604 measuring cast1647 winner1811 glovework1822 piledriver1858 cockshot1861 legwork1868 footwork1871 winning stroke1884 teamwork1885 benching1904 three-sixty1927 wrong-footing1928 power play1932 major1951 sharpshooting1976 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [adjective] > most successful winning1974 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. ii. 12 Learne me how to loose a winning match. View more context for this quotation 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 290 Contemning that Emperour who everie where in civile warre went away on the winning hand. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. Introd. Ep. p. xli I am not displeased to find the game a winning one. 1855 Poultry Chron. 2 486 Neither should I have given the first place to the winning Dorking cock. 1860 Löwenthal Morphy's Games Chess 56 The winning move. 1884 Marshall's Tennis Cuts 114 In playing against a fine player, it is imperative to go for a winning-stroke whenever there is a fair opening. 1974 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) 5 Mar. 6- a/7 John Bates, coach of Maryland-Eastern Shore, at 26–1 the winningest college basketball team in the nation. 1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 5 d/1 Slota defeated Sarah Cap, the winningest active greyhound with 113 career victories. 1985 Dirt Bike Mar. 23/2 (advt.) That's the moment you know what the winningest racers and most satisfied riders know. < as lemmas |
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