Walk vs Stroke - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between walk and stroke

is that walk is (lb) to move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times compare while stroke is to move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.

As nouns the difference between walk and stroke

is that walk is a trip made by walking while stroke is an act of.

walk

English

(walk)

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare .

*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging.His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.

*, chapter=15

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}

To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.

Of an object, to be stolen.

To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.

(lb) To travel (a distance) by walking.

*:Athelstan Arundel walked' home all the way, foaming and raging.His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. He ' walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.

(lb) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:I will rather trusta thief to walk my ambling gelding.

To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.

(lb) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.

(lb) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.

(lb) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).

To leave, resign.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:He will make their cows and garrans to walk .

(lb) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.

*1994 , John Forester, Bicycle Transportation: A Handbook for Cycling Transportation Engineers , MIT Press, p.245:

*:The county had a successful defense only because the judge kept telling the jury at every chance that the cyclist should have walked his bicycle like a pedestrian.

To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.

*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)

*:We walk' perversely with God, and he will ' walk crookedly toward us.

To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.

*(Hugh Latimer) (c.1485-1555)

*:I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.

(lb) To be in motion; to act; to move.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:Her tongue did walk in foul reproach.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead / May walk again.

*(Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

*:Do you think I'd walk in any plot?

Conjugation

(en-conj-simple)

Synonyms

* (move upon two feet) - See also * be acquitted, get off, go free * (be stolen) be/get stolen; (British) be/get nicked, be/get pinched * (beat cloth) full, waulk (obsolete)

Derived terms

* walkathon * walker * Walker * walkies * walk away from * walk away with * walk in * walk in circles * walk into * walk it * walk it off * walk like an Egyptian * walk off * walk off with * walk on * walk on the wild side * walk out * walk over * walk through * walkie-talkie * walkman * Walkman * walkover * walk tall * walk the beat * walk the walk

Noun

(en noun)

A trip made by walking.

I take a walk every morning

A distance walked.

It’s a long walk from my house to the library

(sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.

A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.

The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year

A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail .

(baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".

The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone

Synonyms

* (trip made by walking) stroll (slow walk), hike (long walk), trek (long walk) * (distance walked) hike (if long), trek (if long) * (manner of walking) gait * (path) footpath, path, (British) pavement, (US) sidewalk

Derived terms

* cakewalk * catwalk * farmer's walk * intentional walk * perp walk * race walk * random walk * sidewalk * space walk / spacewalk * sponsored walk * walk in the park * walk in the snow * walk on the wild side * walk policy * whistle walk

Statistics

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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

Anagrams

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