at/on the stroke of something
stroke
verb[ T ]
uk /strəʊk/ us /stroʊk/

strokeverb[T] (TOUCH)

B2
to move a hand, another part of the body, or an object gently over something or someone, usually repeatedly and for pleasure: 轻抚，抚摸
Stroke the dog if you want, he won't bite.想摸这条狗就摸，它不会咬人的。
She lovingly stroked Chris's face with the tips of her fingers.她深情地用指尖抚摸着克里斯的脸庞。
"Go on, have a good cry", he said, stroking her hair.
She was all over him, kissing him and stroking him.
"I love it when you stroke my back, " she purred .
She leaned forward to stroke the dog but quickly drew back when she saw its teeth.
I stroked her back and it seemed to soothe her.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Touching & feeling
arm
brush against someone/something
dab at something
felt
fiddle
fiddle (around) with something
get to second baseidiom
graze
handle
kiss
nudge
paw
pet
physical contact
play with something
retexture
second base
tactile
tactilely
touch

strokeverb[T] (HIT)

UK
to hit a ball: 击球
The batsman stroked the ball effortlessly to the boundary.击球手毫不费力地将球击到边线上。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

General terms used in ball sports
aggregate score
assist
attacking
back pass
backhanded
bend
dump
hat trick
indirect free kick
interception
kicker
launch angle
lay someone off
loft
pitch
square ball
stiff-arm
swat
takeaway
tap in

stroke | American Dictionary

stroke
verb[ T ]
us/stroʊk/

strokeverb[T] (TOUCH)

to move your hand or an object gently over something, usually repeatedly:
Asked another question, she stroked her chin and shut her eyes before answering.
stroke
noun
us/stroʊk/

strokenoun (MARK)

[ C ]
a movement of a pen or pencil when writing, or by a brush when painting, or the line or mark made by such a movement:
With a stroke of his pen, the governor signed the bill into law.

strokenoun (ILLNESS)

[ C ]
a sudden change in the blood supply to a part of the brain, which can result in a loss of some mental or physical abilities, or death:
He suffered a stroke and died two days later.

strokenoun (SWIMMING ACTION)

[ C/U ]
a particular type of repeated movement used in a method of swimming:
[ U ]He swims the breast stroke competitively, but for his ads he did the butterfly stroke.

strokenoun (EVENT)

[ C ]
an unexpected but important event or experience:
The bid to take over the company was seen as a bold stroke.
To get a job in those years was an incredible stroke of luck.

strokenoun (TIME)

[ C ]
an exact time, or a sound or series of sounds that show this time:
The fireworks will start at the stroke of 10.

Examples of stroke

stroke
The account also implies we couldn't survive severe amnesia or strokes that render our brains infant-like and in need of retraining.
A national website presents results from some of the most comprehensive databases (currently covering heart failure, hip fractures, lung cancer, schizophrenia, strokes, and diabetes).
Music editors and directors, inventing and defining the soundscape, operate in broad, intuitive, musical strokes in referencing filmic demands.
The axis was introduced in section 2.3; it is the line where fraction strokes sit on.
A diagram of simple strokes filtered from a watercolor-like image painted with pressure left!.
The kinematic variables for the eclipse robot are the input angles k and strokes k of the prismatic joints.
Careful patient selection with moderately severe strokes may offset this risk.
The reasons for the success of these actuators are large magnetic forces, large and adjustable strokes, and a very robust and stable design.
In this project, three cylinders with different strokes, 25, 100, and 200 mm all having a 25 mm diameter, are used.
The death rate from strokes has almost halved since 1972, and there has also been a significant reduction in deaths from heart disease.
Both features favor long, extended grinding strokes instead of the shor t, downward crushing strokes of less intensive grinding.
Written expressions are typically even more incoherent than spoken utterances, and may contain perseverations of words and individual pencil strokes.
We have painted on a large canvas, and used broad brush strokes.
The clinical consequences of arterial thrombosis are heart attacks, strokes and renal disease.
Clinically, patients suffer from a host of seemingly unrelated maladies, from pain episodes to strokes, life-threatening infections and pulmonary hypertension.
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Collocations withstroke

stroke

These are words often used in combination with stroke.

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acute stroke
Swallow management in patients on an acutestroke pathway: quality is cost effective.
broad strokes
I can deal only with the arguments that strike me as most central, and then only in broad strokes.
compression stroke
As the piston initially moves upwards in what is traditionally the compression stroke, the charge is partially expelled back out through the still-open intake valve.
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