Stroke

Definition

stroke /strǝƱk/ n ၁။ ( sport) ႐ိုက္ခ်က္။ play a forehand stroke ❍ What a beautiful stroke! ❍ She won by two strokes (ie in golf, took two fewer strokes than her opponent). ၂။ (ႀကိမ္ဒဏ္ စသည္)ခ်က္။ His punishment was six strokes of the cane. ၃။ ခဲျခစ္ရာ။ စုတ္ခ်က္။ ကေလာင္ဝင့္ခ်က္။ paint with bold/thick (brush) strokes ❍ be removed from the register with a stroke of the pen. ၄။ (နာရီ)ထိုးသံ။ At the first stroke, it will be exactly 9 o'clock. ❍ on the stroke of three (ie at 3.00 exactly). ၅။ (usu sing ) ပြတ္သပ္ျခင္း။ give the cat / one's beard a stroke. ၆။ (က) (တက္ျဖင့္) ေလွာ္ခ်က္၊ ခတ္ခ်က္။ long, powerful strokes ❍ a fast/slow stroke (ie in rowing). (ခ) (esp in compounds) ေရကူးနည္း။ The butterfly is the only stroke I can't do. See also BACKSTROKE, BREAST-STROKE ၇။ ~ (of sth) အခ်က္။ ခ်က္။ Your idea was a stroke of genius! မင္းအႀကံကေတာ့ ခ်က္တကယ္ပိုင္ တာပဲ။ ❍ It was a stroke of luck that I found you here. ❍ We'll have to get rid of him—he never does a stroke (of work). သူ႕ကိုေတာ့ ထုတ္ပစ္ရလိမ့္မယ္။ အလုပ္ဆို တစ္ခ်က္ ကေလးမွ် မလုပ္ဘူး။ ❍ It was a bold stroke to reveal the identity of the murderer on the first page. See also MASTER-STROKE ၈။ ( medical ) ေလသင္တုန္းျဖတ္ျခင္း။ have/suffer a stroke ❍ The stroke left him partly paralysed. Compare APOPLEXY v ၁။ ပြတ္သပ္ေပးသည္။ stroke a pet/one's beard/sb's hand. ၂။ ( approv ) (ေဘာလံုးကို)႐ိုက္သည္။ She stroked the ball past her opponent. ❏ at a/one stroke [ IDM ] တစ္ခ်က္တည္းျဖင့္။ They threatened to cancel the whole project at a stroke. ❏ put sb off their stroke [ IDM ] အရိွန္ပ်က္သည္။ My speech went well until I was put off my stroke by an interruption.

Examples

1. [have/suffer a stroke] : Leni suffered a stroke last year
2. and is unable to walk.
3. [a stroke of luck/good fortune] : Winning the lottery was quite a stroke of luck.
4. [a stroke of genius/inspiration/brilliance] : Using green as a background was a real stroke of genius (=an idea that shows great intelligence).
5. [a bold/master stroke] : These plans are seen as a bold stroke by the local council.
6. With each stroke of the whip
7. the horse galloped faster.
8. He slammed the ball over the net with a powerful backhand stroke.
9. With powerful strokes she pulled ahead of the others.
10. At the stroke of nine (=at exactly nine o’clock) the band began to play.
11. A brush stroke
12. She gave the dog’s head a stroke.
13. The tree was split by a stroke of lightning.