"downstroke" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “upward stroke”",
      "word": "upstroke"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "down",
        "3": "stroke"
      },
      "expansion": "down + stroke",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From down + stroke.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "downstrokes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "downstroke (plural downstrokes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "up for the downstroke"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 10, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998:",
          "text": "It was written, not printed; written in a clear, even hand, with thick downstrokes and thin upstrokes, very large, easier than print, and so beautiful that Lucy stared at it for a whole minute and forgot about reading it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1997, Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid, London: Faber & Faber, \"Erisychthon,\" lines 41-6, p. 86,\nHe snatches an axe—and hauls / The weight of the broad head up and back. / But in that moment, as the blade hangs / Poised for the first downstroke, shudderings / Swarm through the whole tree, to its outermost twigs / And a groan bursts out of the deep grain."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Scott Schad, Typewriters for Writers, page 500:",
          "text": "If you keep typing on the downstroke of the spacebar it lets you, for example, squeeze a four-letter word into the space normally occupied by a three-letter word.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A downward stroke, especially one that is part of a sequence of alternating upward and downward strokes."
      ],
      "id": "en-downstroke-en-noun-ELJDgduV",
      "links": [
        [
          "downward",
          "downward"
        ],
        [
          "stroke",
          "stroke"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "downstroke"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “upward stroke”",
      "word": "upstroke"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "up for the downstroke"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "down",
        "3": "stroke"
      },
      "expansion": "down + stroke",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From down + stroke.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "downstrokes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "downstroke (plural downstrokes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 10, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998:",
          "text": "It was written, not printed; written in a clear, even hand, with thick downstrokes and thin upstrokes, very large, easier than print, and so beautiful that Lucy stared at it for a whole minute and forgot about reading it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1997, Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid, London: Faber & Faber, \"Erisychthon,\" lines 41-6, p. 86,\nHe snatches an axe—and hauls / The weight of the broad head up and back. / But in that moment, as the blade hangs / Poised for the first downstroke, shudderings / Swarm through the whole tree, to its outermost twigs / And a groan bursts out of the deep grain."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Scott Schad, Typewriters for Writers, page 500:",
          "text": "If you keep typing on the downstroke of the spacebar it lets you, for example, squeeze a four-letter word into the space normally occupied by a three-letter word.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A downward stroke, especially one that is part of a sequence of alternating upward and downward strokes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "downward",
          "downward"
        ],
        [
          "stroke",
          "stroke"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "downstroke"
}