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Noun stroke has 10 senses
- stroke, shot - (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand; "it took two strokes to get out of the bunker"; "a good shot require good balance and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible shot"
--1 is a kind of maneuver, manoeuvre, play
--1 has parts: follow-through
--1 has particulars:
- throw, stroke, cam stroke - the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
--2 is a kind of movement, motion
--2 has particulars: instroke; outstroke
- stroke, apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident, CVA - a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
--3 is a kind of attack
--3 has parts: cerebral hemorrhage
--3 has particulars:
- stroke - a light touch
--4 is a kind of touch, touching
- stroke, stroking - a light touch with the hands
--5 is a kind of touch, touching
--5 has particulars: caress
- stroke - the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew
--6 is a kind of oarsman, rower
- solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix - a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
--7 is a kind of punctuation, punctuation mark
- stroke - a mark made by a writing implement (as in cursive writing)
--8 is a kind of mark, print
--8 has particulars: downstroke; upstroke; underscore, underline
- stroke - any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing
--9 is a kind of locomotion, travel
--9 has particulars: swimming stroke
- stroke - a single complete movement
--10 is a kind of motion, movement, move, motility
--10 has particulars: beat; bow; blow
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