What's the difference between cut and stroke?

Cut


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cut
  • (v. t.) To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.
  • (v. t.) To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.
  • (v. t.) To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.
  • (v. t.) To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.
  • (v. t.) To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out.
  • (v. t.) To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.
  • (v. t.) To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.
  • (v. t.) To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance.
  • (v. t.) To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.
  • (v. i.) To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.
  • (v. i.) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
  • (v. i.) To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.
  • (v. i.) To make a stroke with a whip.
  • (v. i.) To interfere, as a horse.
  • (v. i.) To move or make off quickly.
  • (v. i.) To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.
  • (n.) An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.
  • (n.) A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.
  • (n.) That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight.
  • (n.) A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.
  • (n.) The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.
  • (n.) A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber.
  • (n.) An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.
  • (n.) The act of dividing a pack cards.
  • (n.) The right to divide; as, whose cut is it?
  • (n.) Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment.
  • (n.) A common work horse; a gelding.
  • (n.) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
  • (n.) A skein of yarn.
  • (a.) Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.
  • (a.) Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.
  • (a.) Overcome by liquor; tipsy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
  • (2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
  • (3) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
  • (4) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
  • (5) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
  • (6) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (7) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
  • (8) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
  • (9) It is proposed that this "zipper-like" mechanism represents the normal cutting process of the septum during cell separation.
  • (10) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
  • (11) White lesions (NRL) against a gray background on cut section of brain increase in size with increasing time of arrest.
  • (12) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
  • (13) We are in the middle of the third year of huge cuts in acute hospitals' budgets," said Porter.
  • (14) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
  • (15) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
  • (16) Size comparison of the newly discovered Msp I fragment with a restriction map of the apolipoprotein A-I gene revealed that most likely the cutting site at the 5'-end of the normally seen 673 bp fragment is lost giving rise to the observed 719 bp Msp I fragment.
  • (17) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
  • (18) Although various micronutrients (vitamins and trace elements) have also been found to have either a positive or negative association, findings were more clear-cut for the different food items contributing the micronutrients than for the specific micronutrients themselves.
  • (19) On taking office Lansley admitted this was not a deep enough cut.
  • (20) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.

Stroke


Definition:

  • (imp.) Struck.
  • (v. t.) The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon.
  • (v. t.) The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
  • (v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
  • (v. t.) A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.
  • (v. t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.
  • (v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.
  • (v. t.) A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.
  • (v. t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart.
  • (v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.
  • (v. t.) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.
  • (v. t.) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.
  • (v. t.) The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.
  • (v. t.) A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.
  • (v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.
  • (v. t.) Power; influence.
  • (v. t.) Appetite.
  • (v. t.) To strike.
  • (v. t.) To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.
  • (v. t.) To make smooth by rubbing.
  • (v. t.) To give a finely fluted surface to.
  • (v. t.) To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The major treatable risk factors in thromboembolic stroke are hypertension and transient ischemic attacks (TIA).
  • (2) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
  • (3) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
  • (4) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
  • (5) Cardiovascular disease event rates will be assessed through continuous community surveillance of fatal and nonfatal myocardial infarction and stroke.
  • (6) Five late strokes were ipsilateral (1.8%) and six were contralateral (2.1%) to the operated carotid artery.
  • (7) Diabetic retinopathy (an index of microangiopathy) and absence of peripheral pulses, amputation, or history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischemic attacks (as evidence of macroangiopathy) caused surprisingly little increase in relative risk for cardiovascular death.
  • (8) Urinary incontinence present between 7 and 10 days after stroke was the most important adverse prognostic factor both for survival and for recovery of function.
  • (9) Acetylsalicylic acid has been shown to reduce significantly stroke, death and stroke-related death in men, with no detectable benefit for women.
  • (10) Atrophy was present in 44% of TIA patients, 68% of PRIND patients and 82% of completed stroke patients.
  • (11) On the basis of clinical symptoms and CT scan findings, 66 patients were categorized as having sustained a RIND and 187 a stroke.
  • (12) Recognised risk factors for stroke were found equally in those patients with and without severe events before onset, except that hypertension was rather less common in the patients who had experienced a severe event.
  • (13) These are risk factors for diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke.
  • (14) Stroke was the cause of 2 and congestive heart failure the cause of 4 deaths.
  • (15) Combined clinical observations, stroke volume measured by impedance cardiography, and ejection fractions calculated from systolic time intervals, all showed significant improvement in parallel with CoQ10 administration.
  • (16) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
  • (17) During surgical stimulation cardiac index increased in group A due to an increase in heart rate but remained below control in group B, while stroke volume index was reduced in both groups throughout the whole procedure.
  • (18) In 2001 Sorensen suffered a stroke, which seriously damaged his eyesight, but he continued to be involved in a number of organisations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and other charitable and public bodies, until a second stroke in October 2010.
  • (19) Two hundred and forty-one residents were examined for carotid bruits and signs of previous stroke.
  • (20) One hundred ten atherosclerotic occlusions of the internal carotid artery (ICA) were found in 106 patients in group I. Fifty-one percent of these patients had a history of stroke before arteriography, 24% had transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) or amaurosis fugax (AF), and 12% had nonhemispheric symptoms.