Upstroke

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An upward stroke, as of a brush.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the upward stroke of a brush, piston etc
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In mech., the traverse of a piston, or of any reciprocating or rocking element of an engine or machine, in which the driving element is moving upward, or the principal driven element is coming up.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a stroke normally made in an upward direction
    • Antonym
    downstroke   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stroke   
    Same Context
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