DOWNSTROKE Definition & Meaning

downstroke

[ doun-strohk ]

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noun

a downward stroke, as of a machine part, piston, or the like.
a downward stroke in writing, often heavier and darker than an upward stroke.

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Origin of downstroke¹

First recorded in 1850–55; down ¹ + stroke ¹

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We wrote it on acoustic guitar, but we already had the downstrokes that you could tell were gonna be power chords.

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For Ms. Reid, crafting elegant words with her pens is not just an artistic practice, but a physical one, with a meditative rhythm of upstrokes and downstrokes.

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The NBC broadcast picked up audio of a spectator yelling during Fish’s downstroke, and the shot was hooked right into the trees.

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“The body cavity is all below the spine, so on the downstroke, everything below the spine is being squeezed,” Shadwick says.

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The crowd soundtrack them with a few loud woahs ... so he teases them by stalling theatrically on the downstroke.

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