stroke stroking | a light touch with the hands |
stroke | a single complete movement |
keystroke key stroke | the stroke of a key, one depression of a key on a keyboard, the number of keystrokes was used as a measure of work |
medal play stroke play | golf scoring by total strokes taken |
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 requires good balance and tempo, he left me an almost impossible shot |
tennis stroke tennis shot | the act of hitting a tennis ball with a tennis racket |
backhand backhand stroke backhand shot | a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke |
forehand forehand stroke forehand shot | (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) |
ground stroke | a tennis return made by hitting the ball after it has bounced once |
stroke | any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing |
swimming stroke | a method of moving the arms and legs to push against the water and propel the swimmer forward |
butterfly butterfly stroke | a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down |
golf stroke golf shot swing | the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it |
four-stroke engine four-stroke internalombustion engine | an internalombustion engine in which an explosive mixture is drawn into the cylinder on the first stroke and is compressed and ignited on the second stroke, work is done on the third stroke and the products of combustion are exhausted on the fourth stroke |
stroke | a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush, she applied the paint in careful strokes |
hair stroke | a very fine line in writing or printing |
solidus slash virgule diagonal stroke separatrix | a punctuation mark ( ) used to separate related items of information |
accident stroke fortuity chance event | 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 |
throw stroke cam stroke | the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam |
stroke | a light touch |
stroke | the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew |
stroke | (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club, Nicklaus won by three strokes |
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 |
aphasia | inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion |
auditory aphasia acoustic aphasia word deafness | an impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss |
conduction aphasia associative aphasia | aphasia in which the lesion is assumed to be in the association tracts connecting the various language centers in the brain, patient's have difficulty repeating a sentence just heard |
global aphasia total aphasia | loss of all ability to communicate |
motor aphasia Broca's aphasia ataxic aphasia expressive aphasia nonfluent aphasia | aphasia in which expression by speech or writing is severely impaired |
nominal aphasia anomic aphasia anomia amnesic aphasia amnestic aphasia | inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects |
transcortical aphasia | a general term for aphasia that results from lesions outside of Broca's area or Wernicke's area of the cerebral cortex |
visual aphasia alexia word blindness | inability to perceive written words |
Wernicke's aphasia fluent aphasia receptive aphasia sensory aphasia impressive aphasia | aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words |
ischemic stroke ischaemic stroke | the most common kind of stroke, caused by an interruption in the flow of blood to the brain (as from a clot blocking a blood vessel) |
hemorrhagic stroke haemorrhagic stroke | stroke caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain |
stroke | treat gingerly or carefully, You have to stroke the boss |
stroke | strike a ball with a smooth blow |
stroke | row at a particular rate |
stroke | touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions, He stroked his long beard |