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Stroke vs Lick - What's the difference?

stroke | lick |

In lang=en terms the difference between stroke and lick

is that stroke is a single act of striking at the ball with a club while lick is a short motif.

As nouns the difference between stroke and lick

is that stroke is an act of stroking moving one's hand over a surface while lick is the act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.

As verbs the difference between stroke and lick

is that stroke is to move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction while lick is to stroke with the tongue.

stroke

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia stroke) (en noun)
  • An act of (gloss, moving one's hand over a surface).
  • A blow or hit.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xix. 5
    • His hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples without striking a stroke .
  • 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.
    • the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or of an oar in rowing
    the stroke of a skater, swimmer, etc.
  • A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort.
    • a stroke''' of genius; a '''stroke''' of business; a master '''stroke of policy
  • 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= 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.}}
  • (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (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.
    • a stroke''' of apoplexy; the '''stroke of death
  • * Harte
    • At this one stroke the man looked dead in law.
  • (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.
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
  • * Bible, Isa. xxx. 26
    • in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound
  • An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.
    • to give some finishing strokes to an essay
    (Addison)
  • A throb or beat, as of the heart.
    • (Tennyson)
  • (obsolete) Power; influence.
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
    • where money beareth all the stroke
  • * Dryden
    • He has a great stroke with the reader.
  • (obsolete) appetite
    • (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 * umstroke

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) stroken, straken, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (strok)
  • To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.
  • * Dryden
    • He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind, / He stroked her cheeks.
  • (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 stroke a boat

    See also

    * (pedialite)

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    lick

    English

    (licking)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
    • The cat gave its fur a lick .
  • The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
    • Give me a lick of ice cream.
  • A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue.
    • a lick''' of paint; to put on colours with a '''lick of the brush
  • * Gray
    • a lick of court white wash
  • A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
    • The birds gathered at the clay lick .
  • A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
    • We used to play in the lick .
  • (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
    • Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
  • (colloquial) A bit.
    • You don't have a lick of sense.
    I didn't do a lick of work today.
  • (music) A short motif.
    • There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
  • speed. In this sense it is always qualified by good', or ' fair or a similar adjective.
    • The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.

    Synonyms

    * (bit) see also .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stroke with the tongue.
    • The cat licked its fur.
  • (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
    • My dad can lick your dad.
  • (colloquial) To overcome.
    • I think I can lick this.
  • (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
  • (colloquial) To do anything partially.
  • To lap
  • * 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
    • Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
  • To lap; to take in with the tongue.
    • A cat licks milk.
    (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * ass-licker * cow lick * good lick * lick one's chops * lick one's wounds * lick out * lickspittle * lick up * licked * lickety split * outlick