Слово англійською: stroke

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stroke

noun

/strəʊk/

hitting movement

[countable] an act of hitting a ball, for example with a bat or racket

What a beautiful stroke!
He won by two strokes (= in golf, by taking two fewer strokes than his opponent).
He played some powerful backhand strokes throughout the game.

[countable] a single movement of the arm when hitting somebody/something

His punishment was six strokes of the cane.

action

[countable] stroke (of something) a single successful action or event

Your idea was a stroke of genius.
It was a stroke of luck that I found you here.
It was a bold stroke to reveal the identity of the murderer on the first page.
She never does a stroke (of work) (= never does any work).
I had a sudden stroke of inspiration.

illness

[countable, uncountable] a sudden serious illness when a blood vessel (= tube) in the brain bursts (= breaks open) or is blocked, which can cause death or the loss of the ability to move or to speak clearly

to have/suffer a stroke
The stroke left him partly paralysed.
Smoking increases the risk of stroke.

in swimming/rowing

[countable] any of a series of repeated movements in swimming or rowing

She took a few more strokes to reach the bank.
He swam with long powerful strokes.

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water wings

[countable] (often in compounds) a style of swimming

Butterfly is the only stroke I can't do.

gentle touch

[countable, usually singular] (especially British English) an act of moving your hand gently over a surface, usually several times

He gave the cat a stroke.

of pen/brush

[countable] a mark made by moving a pen, brush, etc. once across a surface

to paint with fine brush strokes
At the stroke of a pen (= by signing something) they removed thousands of people from the welfare system.

of clock

[countable] each of the sounds made by a clock or bell giving the hours

At the first stroke it will be 9 o'clock exactly.
on the stroke of three (= at 3 o’clock exactly)

Word OriginOld English strācian ‘caress lightly’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch streek ‘a stroke’, German streichen ‘to stroke’, also to strike. The earliest noun sense ‘blow’ is first recorded in Middle English.

Idioms

at a (single) stroke | at one stroke

with a single immediate action
- They threatened to cancel the whole project at a stroke.
- They lost half their fortune at a stroke.

put somebody off their stroke

(British English) to make somebody make a mistake or hesitate in what they are doing
- My speech was going well until I was put off my stroke by an interruption.

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