Stroke
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Stroke can mean one of the following:
- Stroke (medicine), a cerebral accident, when blood supply to a part of the brain is suddenly interrupted.
- A sunstroke.
- Stroke (Chinese character), in graphics of Chinese characters.
- A single line without any break, see stroke order.
- An alternative name for the typographical character known as slash.
- Stroke (engines), a single action of some engines.
- stroke (software), a port scanning utility.
- Local Larne (Northern Ireland) Dialect meaning either to steal eg to stroke an item, or to get one over on someone eg "Ah, you were well stroked there."