downstroke
noun/ˈdaʊnˌstɹoʊk/US
Etymology
From down + stroke.
Definitions
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.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA