Stroke vs Long - What's the difference?
stroke | long |
An act of (gloss, moving one's hand over a surface).
A blow or hit.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xix. 5
* Francis Bacon
A single movement with a tool.
# (golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club.
# (tennis) The hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
# (rowing) The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the vessel or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull.
# (cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
# A thrust of a piston.
One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort.
A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement.
# (hence, British) The symbol .
# (linguistics) A line of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character.
The time when a clock strikes.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 9, author=John Percy, work=the Telegraph
, title= (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.
* , chapter=7
, title= (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
(obsolete) A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.
* Harte
(rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.
(rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.
(professional wrestling) Backstage influence.
(squash) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
(sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.
(obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
* Bible, Isa. xxx. 26
An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.
A throb or beat, as of the heart.
(obsolete) Power; influence.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
* Dryden
(obsolete) appetite
To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.
* Dryden
(cricket) To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.
(masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.
To row the stroke oar of.
Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point .
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 Having great duration.
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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
*1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty),
*:What I suffered with that rein for four long months in my lady's carriage, it would be hard to describe, but I am quite sure that, had it lasted much longer, either my health or my temper would have given way.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
Not short; tall.
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*:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
(label) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value.
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(label) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out ).
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(label) Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:That we may us reserve both fresh and strong / Against the tournament, which is not long .
Over a great distance in space.
For a particular duration.
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, title= For a long duration.
* 1594 , (William Shakespeare), i 3
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, passage=The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.}}
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(linguistics) A long vowel.
(programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int or a short and half of a long long.
(finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
(music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
To await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
(archaic) On account of, because of.
* 1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , II.8:
(archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:
* about 1591 , (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew , IV, 4:
As nouns the difference between stroke and long
is that stroke is an act of while long is hair; fur; coat.As a verb stroke
is to move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.stroke
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia stroke) (en noun)- His hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree.
- He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples without striking a stroke .
- the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or of an oar in rowing
- the stroke of a skater, swimmer, etc.
- a stroke''' of genius; a '''stroke''' of business; a master '''stroke of policy
Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report, passage=Already guarding a 1-0 lead from the first leg, Blackpool inched further ahead when Stephen Dobbie scored from an acute angle on the stroke of half-time. The game appeared to be completely beyond Birmingham’s reach three minutes into the second period when Matt Phillips reacted quickly to bundle the ball past Colin Doyle and off a post.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
- a stroke''' of apoplexy; the '''stroke of death
- At this one stroke the man looked dead in law.
- A flash of lightning may be made up of several strokes . If they are separated by enough time for the eye to distinguish them, the lightning will appear to flicker.
- in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound
- to give some finishing strokes to an essay
- (Addison)
- (Tennyson)
- where money beareth all the stroke
- He has a great stroke with the reader.
- (Jonathan Swift)
Synonyms
* caress * (blow) blow, hit, beat ** (act of striking with a weapon) blow * (single movement with a tool) ** (in golf) ** (in tennis) ** (in rowing) ** (in cricket) shot ** (thrust of a piston) push, thrust * (made with a pen) stroke of the pen ** (made with a brush) brushstroke ** (symbol) forward slash (in computing), shilling sign (qualifier), slant, slash (especially in computing), solidus, virgule * (time when a clock strikes) hour * (particular style of swimming) * (in medical sense) cerebrovascular accident, CVA * (in wrestling)Derived terms
* at a stroke * at one stroke * backstroke * breaststroke * broad strokes * brushstroke * butterfly stroke * different strokes for different folks * down to the short strokes * four-stroke engine * government stroke * keystroke * masterstroke * multistroke * short strokes * stroke of genius * stroke of luck * stroke of work * stroke order * two-stroke engine * umstrokeEtymology 2
From (etyl) stroken, straken, from (etyl) .Verb
(strok)- He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind, / He stroked her cheeks.
- to stroke a boat
See also
* (pedialite)Anagrams
* * ----long
English
(wikipedia long)Etymology 1
From (etyl) long, lang, from (etyl) longe, long, .Adjective
(er)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
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Usage notes
* Wide'' is usually used instead of ''long when referring to a horizontal dimension (left to right). * Tall'' or ''high'' are usually used instead of ''long'' when referring to positive vertical dimension (upwards), and ''deep when referring to negative vertical dimension (downwards).Synonyms
* (having much distance from one point to another) deep (vertically downwards), extended, high (vertically upwards), lengthy, tall * (having great duration) extended, lengthy, prolongedAntonyms
* (having much distance from one point to another) low (vertically upwards), shallow (vertically upwards or downwards), short * (having great duration) brief, short * (finance) shortDerived terms
* * as the day is long * daylong, dayslong * long arm of the law * long game * long gun * longhand * long-haul * long paddock * long pig * long row to hoe * long shot * long vehicle * long-waisted * long white radish * the long and short * yearlong, yearslongAdverb
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Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- I stay too long : but here my father comes.
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
Synonyms
* (over a great distance) a long way, far * (for a long duration) a long timeAntonyms
* (over a great distance) a short distance, a short way * (for a long duration) an instant, a minute, a moment, a second, a short time, not longSee also
* far * wide * broadNoun
(en noun)- A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.
- Every uptick made the longs cheer.
See also
* broad * wideEtymology 2
From (etyl) longen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- She longed for him to come back.
- The Rabbit sighed. He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* (desire greatly) ache, yearnDerived terms
* longingEtymology 3
Aphetic form of (etyl) gelang; the verb later reinterpreted as an aphetic form of belong.Adjective
(-)- I am of opinion that in regard of these debauches and lewd actions, fathers may, in some sort, be blamed, and that it is only long of them.
Verb
(en verb)- A goodly Armour, and full rich aray, / Which long'd to Angela, the Saxon Queene, / All fretted round with gold, and goodly wel beseene.
- Tis well, and hold your owne in any case / With such austeritie as longeth to a father.
