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Stroke Noun Countable Bir  /Strəʊk   Vuruş Kulaç Kürek

Level B2 
Kind noun
Front stroke 
IPA  /strəʊk   / noun
Back vuruş, kulaç, kürek çekme
Back 2

stroke (noun)

 /strəʊk   / noun
IN SWIMMING, ETC.
1 [countable]
one of the movements that you make when you are swimming, rowing (= in a boat), etc.
vuruş, kulaç, kürek çekme
 Woods won by three strokes.
 2 [countable, uncountable] [in compounds]
one of the styles of swimming
yüzme stili
 I can do backstroke (sırtüstü yüzme) and breaststroke, but not front crawl.
 look at CRAWL2
WITH PEN/BRUSH
3 [countable]
one of the movements that you make when you are writing or painting
darbe
 a brush stroke
 Some Chinese characters have more than twenty strokes.
LUCK
4 [singular]
a stroke of sth
a sudden successful action or event
beklenmedik iyi bir olay
 It was a stroke of luck finding your ring on the beach, wasn't it?
 It took a stroke of genius to solve the puzzle.
ILLNESS
5 [countable]
a sudden illness which attacks the brain and can leave a person unable to move part of their body, speak clearly, etc.
inme, felç
 to have a stroke
IDIOMS
at a/one stroke
with a single action
bir çırpıda, bir hamlede
 You can't change people's opinions at a stroke.
not do a stroke (of work)
to not do any work at all
hiç çalışmamak, elini bile kıpırdatmamak
 

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