Trauma vs Stroke - What's the difference?
trauma | stroke |
Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
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An event that causes great distress.
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.
As nouns the difference between trauma and stroke
is that trauma is any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident while stroke is an act of stroking moving one's hand over a surface.As a verb stroke is
to move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.trauma
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(wikipedia trauma)Noun
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Derived terms
* traumatism * traumatise/traumatize * trauma incidence reductionAnagrams
* English nouns with irregular plurals ----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