flick
microstroke
midstroke
forehanded
fore-handed
restroke
dunt
prestroke
forehand
strokeless
firk
strokelike
thack
stroky
stroker
dead-stroke
backcast
beat
bat
haemorrhagic stroke
hemorrhagic stroke
microartery
tickle
chop
multistroke
strokelessness
different strokes
cerebral palsied
afterstroke
microcerebral
sweep
gird
tact
curl
cerebromicrovascular
downstroke
skelp
swash
backhand shot
microneurovascular
backhand stroke
ductus
follow-through
understroke
backhand
forestroke
gentle
microvenous
stroketomics
downstrike
strike
scart
cerebroarterial
Trudgen stroke
scratch
ischemic stroke
stroke out
ischaemic stroke
pet
backstroke
treading water
lick
scud
medal play
half-one
joey
ten-strike
microvein
micropuncturation
microarteriole
lesser saphenous vein
pat
Worster-Drought syndrome
breaststroke
superior thalamostriate vein
minim
cerebrovascular accident
split
trudgen
cut
ataxia-telangiectasia
cerebrovasospasm
grace stroke
by-stroke
ace
tap
antistroke
dab
poststroke
downpick
deloft
prestroke
strokeless
strokelike
stroky
dead-stroke
multistroke
cerebral palsied
microcerebral
cerebromicrovascular
microneurovascular
microvenous
cerebroarterial
forehanded
fore-handed
antistroke
poststroke
forehanded
fore-handed
midstroke
flick
microstroke
midstroke
restroke
dunt
forehand
firk
thack
stroker
backcast
beat
bat
haemorrhagic stroke
hemorrhagic stroke
microartery
strokelessness
afterstroke
gird
tact
curl
downstroke
skelp
swash
backhand shot
backhand stroke
ductus
follow-through
understroke
backhand
forestroke
stroketomics
downstrike
scart
Trudgen stroke
scratch
ischemic stroke
ischaemic stroke
backstroke
treading water
lick
scud
medal play
half-one
joey
ten-strike
microvein
micropuncturation
microarteriole
lesser saphenous vein
Worster-Drought syndrome
superior thalamostriate vein
minim
cerebrovascular accident
split
ataxia-telangiectasia
cerebrovasospasm
grace stroke
by-stroke
pat
tap
dab
downpick
tickle
chop
sweep
forehand
gentle
strike
stroke out
pet
pat
breaststroke
trudgen
cut
ace
deloft
noun
noun
- A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke.
- Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
- All of the part of a horse which is before the rider.
- The hand towards the front of the board.
- A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and is led by the middle finger.
verb
adj
noun
- A stroke; a blow.
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- A beatnik.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- A rhythm.
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A precinct.
verb
- simple past tense of beat
- To rob.
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To hit; to strike.
- To tread, as a path.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
adj
noun
- A stroke; a sharp blow.
- A part of a brick with one whole end.
- A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
- A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
- Rate of motion; speed.
- Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
- Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
- A stroke of work.
- A rough walking stick.
- The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
- A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
- Shale or bituminous shale.
- An old woman.
verb
noun
verb
- To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To vary or shift suddenly.
- To remove the final character from (a text string).
- To interrupt; with in or out.
- to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- To stab.
- To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- To seal a license or passport.
- To chap or crack.
noun
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A complete shipment.
- A license or passport that has been sealed.
- The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
- A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A woodchopping competition.
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A jaw of an animal.
- An IRC channel operator.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
noun
verb
- To strike with a long stroke.
- To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- To travel quickly.
- To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- To search (a place) methodically.
- To draw or drag something over.
- To play a sweep shot.
- To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
noun
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- Violent and general destruction.
- The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- A single action of sweeping.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- A chimney sweep.
- The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
noun
- The stroke in beating time.
- Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing.
- A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
- The sense of touch; feeling.
verb
noun
- A curved stroke or shape.
- A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
- Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
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- The vector operator, denoted rm curl; or ⃑∇⨯⃑(·), that generates this field.
- Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
- Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
- A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
- The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
- The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
- A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
verb
- To cause to move in a curve.
- To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
- To move in curves.
- To take part in the sport of curling.
- To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
- To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
- To make into a curl or spiral.
- To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
- To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
- To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
noun
- A smooth stroke; a swish.
- A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
- A wet splashing sound.
- The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
- A streak or patch.
- A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
- A swishing noise.
- An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
adj
verb
noun
- A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
- A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
- A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
- A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
- A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
- A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
- A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
- A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
verb
- To move downward in a stiking motion.
- To go in a downward direction.
- To arc to ground in a downstrike.
- To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
- To strike from above.
- To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.
- To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
- To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
adv
adj
verb
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
noun
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- informal terms for money
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- dry mash for poultry
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- poor handwriting
- an indication of damage
verb
- cause friction
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
noun
- A stroke or blow.
- An attempt at something.
- A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
- An instance of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc.; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
- A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
- The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
- A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
- The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
- A small amount; a whit.
- A short motif.
- A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
- An act of cunnilingus.
verb
noun
- A slap; a sharp stroke.
- The drink Irn-Bru.
- A gust of wind.
- A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer.
- A swift runner.
- The act of scudding.
- A form of garden hoe.
- Any swimming amphipod.
- A scab on a wound.
- A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
- Pornography.
- Clouds or rain driven by the wind.
adj
verb
noun
verb
- To stroke or fondle (an animal).
- To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
- To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
- To gently rain.
adj
- Exactly suitable, fitting, apt; timely, convenient, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken.
- Trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality.
noun
- A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.
- The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep
- A light tap or slap, especially with the hands
adv
noun
- A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
- Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
- A small fish; a minnow.
- A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1⁄60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
- The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
- A little man or being; a dwarf.
- A short poetical encomium.
- A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
noun
- A split shot or split stroke.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race.
- A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- A split-finger fastball.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun.
- A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
- A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
verb
- To factor into linear factors.
- To separate.
- To leave.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- To share; to divide.
- To burst out laughing.
- To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
adj
- Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- Divided.
- Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
- Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
verb
- To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- To exhibit (a quality).
- To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- To wound with a knife.
- To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
- To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- To stop, disengage, or cease.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- To make or negotiate.
- To castrate or geld.
- To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To change direction suddenly.
- To perform (a dancing movement etc.).
- To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
noun
- A particular version or edit of a film.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- A skein of yarn.
- A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
- The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- The result of cutting.
- In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
- The act of cutting.
- An artificial navigation channel as distinguished from a navigable river.
- Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- A slab, especially of meat.
- A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- A haircut.
- A decrease.
adj
- Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- Reduced.
- Having been cut.
- Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- Carved into a shape; not raw.
- Emotionally hurt.
intj
noun
noun
- a light touch or stroke
- the sound made by a gentle blow
- a gentle blow
- a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask
- a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)
- a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads
- a plug for a bunghole in a cask
- the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information
verb
- cut a female screw thread with a tap
- draw from or dip into to get something
- strike lightly
- draw from; make good use of
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- walk with a tapping sound
- dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes
- draw (liquor) from a tap
- pierce in order to draw a liquid from
- make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
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