downstroke

noun
/ˈdaʊnˌstɹoʊk/US

Etymology

From down + stroke.

  1. derived from *streyg- — “to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike
  2. inherited from *straikaz — “stroke
  3. inherited from *straik
  4. inherited from strāc
  5. inherited from strok
  6. compounded as downstroke — “down + stroke

Definitions

  1. A downward stroke, especially one that is part of a sequence of alternating upward and…

    A downward stroke, especially one that is part of a sequence of alternating upward and downward strokes.

    • It was written, not printed; written in a clear, even hand, with thick downstrokes and thin upstrokes, very large, easier than print, and so beautiful that Lucy stared at it for a whole minute and forgot about reading it.
    • If you keep typing on the downstroke of the spacebar it lets you, for example, squeeze a four-letter word into the space normally occupied by a three-letter word.

The neighborhood

  • antonymupstrokeantonym(s) of “upward stroke”

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for downstroke. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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