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say it: strohk
stroke is a noun and verb meaning "(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand". It carries 16 recorded senses.
sport
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
a light touch
(golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club
“Nicklaus won by three strokes”
golf
the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew
anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
“winning the lottery was a happy accident”
“the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck”
“it was due to an accident or fortuity”
a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush
“she applied the paint in careful strokes”
any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stroke come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.