Stroke vs Chop - What's the difference?
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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.
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, 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.
A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
*1957 , :
*:I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.
A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
(martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
(poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
Termination, especially from employment.
(dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.
To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
To sever with an axe or similar implement.
(baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
(poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
* L'Estrange
To interrupt; with in'' or ''out .
* Latimer
(obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
* L'Estrange
To chap or crack.
(nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
* Francis Bacon
(mostly, in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
A change; a vicissitude.
An official stamp or seal.
Mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
(internet) An IRC channel operator.
* 1996 , Peter Ludlow, High Noon on the Electronic Frontier (page 404)
In lang=en terms the difference between stroke and chop
is that stroke is a single act of striking at the ball with a club while chop is to divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.In obsolete terms the difference between stroke and chop
is that stroke is appetite while chop is to exchange, to barter; to swap.In transitive terms the difference between stroke and chop
is that stroke is to row the stroke oar of while chop is to sever with an axe or similar implement.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
* * ----chop
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) choppen, variant of (only attested in compounds). More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* (English Citations of "chop")Synonyms
* axe, pink slip, sackVerb
- chop wood
- chop an onion
- Chop off his head.
- Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the shadow, and loses the substance.
- This fellow interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.
Derived terms
* chop chop * chopper * chopping board * chop logic * chops * chopstick * choppy * karate chop * try out one's own chopsEtymology 2
Of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of (chap).Verb
- this is not to put down Prelaty, this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan'' from one kind of dominion into another, this is but an old canonicall sleight of ''commuting our penance.
- We go on chopping and changing our friends.
- The wind chops about.
- Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.
Noun
(en noun)- East Chop'''; West '''Chop
- (Marryat)
Etymology 3
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)- silk of the first chop
Derived terms
* chop dollar * chop of tea * grand chopEtymology 4
Shortening.Noun
(en noun)- IRC supports mechanisms for the enforcement of acceptable behaviour on IRC. Channel operators — "chanops" or "chops " — have access to the /kick command, which throws a specified user out of the given channel.