单词 | stroke |
释义 | Word Frequency stroke(strəʊk) noun 1. the act or an instance of striking; a blow, knock, or hit 2. a sudden action, movement, or occurrence a stroke of luck 3. a brilliant or inspired act or feat a stroke of genius 4. pathology apoplexy; rupture of a blood vessel in the brain resulting in loss of consciousness, often followed by paralysis, or embolism or thrombosis affecting a cerebral vessel 5. a. the striking of a clock b. the hour registered by the striking of a clock on the stroke of three 6. a mark, flourish, or line made by a writing implement 7. another name for solidus, used esp when dictating or reading aloud 8. a light touch or caress, as with the fingers 9. a pulsation, esp of the heart 10. a single complete movement or one of a series of complete movements 11. sport the act or manner of striking the ball with a racket, club, bat, etc 12. any one of the repeated movements used by a swimmer to propel himself or herself through the water 13. a manner of swimming, esp one of several named styles such as the crawl or butterfly 14. a. any one of a series of linear movements of a reciprocating part, such as a piston b. the distance travelled by such a part from one end of its movement to the other 15. a single pull on an oar or oars in rowing 16. manner or style of rowing 17. the oarsman who sits nearest the stern of a shell, facing the cox, and sets the rate of striking for the rest of the crew 18. US informal a compliment or comment that enhances a person's self-esteem 19. (modifier) slang, mainly US pornographic; masturbatory stroke magazines 20. a stroke 21. off one's stroke 22. on the stroke of verb 23. (transitive) to touch, brush, or caress lightly or gently 24. (transitive) to mark a line or a stroke on or through 25. to act as the stroke of (a racing shell) 26. (transitive) sport to strike (a ball) with a smooth swinging blow 27. (transitive) US and Canadian informal to handle or influence (someone) with care, using persuasion, flattery, etc Word origin Old English strācian; related to Middle Low German strēken; see strike |
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