Stroke vs Hack - 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.
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, 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.
To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
To cough noisily.
To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
(transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code; to crack.
(transitive, slang, computing) By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
(computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
(computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
(transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
To work with on an intimately technical level.
(ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
(ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
(baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
To strike in a frantic movement.
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A tool for chopping.
A hacking blow.
A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
A dry cough.
A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
(figuratively) A try, an attempt.
(curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
(obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pick.
(computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
(computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
(computing) A small code change meant to patch a problem as quickly as possible.
(computing) An expedient, temporary solution, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date.
(colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
(slang, military) Time check.
(baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
A kick on the shins in football.
(falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
A food-rack for cattle.
A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
A grating in a mill race.
To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
(falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
(obsolete) An ordinary saddle horse, especially one which has been let out for hire and is old and tired.
A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack)
* I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.
(pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
(slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
* Alexander Pope
(pejorative) An untalented writer.
* Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack .
* He's nothing but the typical hack writer.
(pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
(pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
(politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory)
(obsolete) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
* Goldsmith
(obsolete) A procuress.
(dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
(obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
(obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
* J. H. Newman
A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
Stroke is a related term of hack.
As nouns the difference between stroke and hack
is that stroke is an act of while hack is hedge.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
* * ----hack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.
- Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
- This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking .
- Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?
- When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked .
- He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.
- I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.
- I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life.
- I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.
- He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.
- There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.
- He went to the batter's box hacking .
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Derived terms
(terms derived from hack) * hack down * hack in * , hackingly, hacky * hack into * hack up * hackability * hackerSynonyms
* (gain unauthorized access) crack * frob * tweakNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack .
- He took a few hacks , but the pitcher finally struck him out.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "hack")Synonyms
* (access attempt) crack * band-aid, contrivance, improvision, improvisation, kludge, makeshift, quick fix, patchEtymology 2
Variations of (hatch), (heck).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
Abbreviation of , probably from place name HackneyNoun
(en noun)- On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.
- Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, / Who long was a bookseller's hack .
Synonyms
*(A saddle horse which is old and tired) nagCoordinate terms
*(worthless horse) bumVerb
(en verb)- (Hanmer)
- (Goldsmith)
- The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late.
