Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
downstrike en · ADJ
Etymology
From down + strike.
Meanings
-
downward or further down.
The second character that contribute to the asymmetry is the convexing of the preprotocrista. The convex preprotocrista enlarges the trigon basin in the downstrike direction of the hypoconid, thus increasing Phase II contact (Fig. 53G).
1989, Zhexi Luo, Structure of the Petrosals of Multituberculata (mammalia) and Morphology of the Molars of Early Arctocyonids (condylarthra, Mammalia)..:Pyroclastics along the southeast shore of Manitou Island appear to be the [downstrike] equivalents of Troutlet Lake pyroclastics.
1976, Geoscience Report - Issues 141-144, page 20:The Earlies Gap Biotite Gneiss may therefore indicate a downstrike lithologic change resulting from original variations of the protolith and from a more thorough.
1959, Field Trip Guidebook, page 30:
Forms
downstrike en · ADV
Etymology
From down + strike.
Meanings
-
In a downward direction
Analytical results of the IP profiles for both Gold Lake and Crestaurum areas (Katsube et al., 2006), suggest that the mineralization in the shear zones are discontinuous downstrike.
2006, Carolyn Diane Anglin, Gold in the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt, Northwest Territories:The spring is downstrike from a fairly large area of low perennial stream density.
1985, Pellissippi Parkway Extension, I-40-I-75 to TN-115:Amal supracrustals and other rocks were traced from the syncline core to the rest of Magnusson's (1960) 'Gothian' area and thence downstrike across the alleged Gothian-Pregothian boundary into the 'Pregothian' region.
1981, Forhandlingar, page 46:However, a lone foreshock at the southern end of this zone, some 140 km downstrike of the mainshock's epicenter, implies that conditions existed for rupture into that zone.
2012, Jeanne Sauber, Renata Dmowska, Seismogenic and Tsunamigenic Processes in Shallow Subduction Zones, →ISBN:
Forms
downstrike en · NOUN
Etymology
From down + strike.
Meanings
-
A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
These storms typically arrive in the afternoon, building incredible cloud banks that can unleash rapid-fire lightning strikes. Cells often will hover and send forth dozens of downstrikes in a concentrated area, particularly in areas like the Valle Caldera.
2016, Kai Huschke, 50 Hikes in Northern New Mexico (Explorer's 50 Hikes), →ISBN:Lightning downstrikes became visible as it crossed Beekman Ridge south of Butte Falls.
2014, Lloyd Holm, A Mountain of Many Names, →ISBN:Seventeen hundred downstrikes of lightning later, destruction reigns over southwest Oregon.
1994, David A. Perry, Forest Ecosystems, →ISBN, page 105:
-
A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
Besides forming new cores, arcs may also form branches, and "downstrikes" are liable to be particularly troublesome.
1959, Electrical Times - Volume 135, page 355:When a downstrike is established, the longer arc in parallel dies away rapidly and the process appears on oscillograms as a sudden reduction in arc voltage.
1959, Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers:This was prevented by reducing the space between the plates in that portion of the chute, so that when downstrikes occurred tie new arc core remained under control and returned up into the chute again.
1959 -, The Electrical Review - Volume 164, Issues 10-17, page 447:These "downstrikes" were recorded with an electromagnetic oscillograph and a high-speed camera, and now a good correlation exists between the two records.
1962, Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, page 204:
-
A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
Its blades gleam with stolen light; the long sword slips up to Jodan to block their downstrike.
2013, Ian McDonald -, King of Morning, Queen of Day, →ISBN:Attacker executes a downstrike. Defender performs a two-hand catch, blocks, rotates through and performs an elbow-break with accompanying shoulder dislocation.
1977, Michael D. Echanis, Knife Self-Defense for Combat, →ISBN, page 34:There were two men left by the rail and Hob whirled to take them; his sword swung up and hovered an instant before the downstrike.
2017, Douglas Nicholas, Three Queens in Erin: A Novel, →ISBN, page 22:
-
A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
How the guitarist chooses to create the differences between the accented and unaccented notes has usually been left up to the player, although it is usual for players to use a downstrike (apoyando) for an accented tone and an upstroke (tirando) for an unaccented tone.
1985, John Schneider, The Contemporary Guitar, →ISBN, page 117:
-
A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
Because the pressure is a steady, controlled flow, the available tonnage of a hydraulic press brake is the same at all points during the downstroke (Figure 1C-9). The ram can also be instantly stopped, anywhere during the downstrike, by simply releasing the foot pedal.
1988 -, Orville D. Lascoe, Handbook of Fabrication Processes, →ISBN, page 25:It is sort of like paying a carpenter for the downstrike of his hammer and saying the upstroke is on his on time.
1965, United States Congress Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Hearings, page 185:1 . Full pump card. 2. Three strokes confirm pumpoff. 3. Power shutotf at mid-downstroke. 4. Pumping unit stops at midstroke, restart will be made in downstrike.
1985, Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers:On the subject of environments, our anatomically contoured houndstooth design provides exceptional traction on all terrains and in all weather conditions. What's more, the studs have a unique flex action: they automatically release any turf they may have picked up on downstrike.
1982 -, Women's Sports - Volume 4, Issues 7-12, page 64:Shaft 24a carried the back check 24 for checking the downstrike of its related hammer 22.
1988, WS Finholm, Piano key action: US Patent 4,774,868:
-
A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
These machines had straight-line keyboards and a semicircular downstrike typebasket that made for easy visibility by the typist.
1985, Frank T. Masi, The Typewriter Legend, page 67:Though it is classified as a posterior downstrike typewriter, with its typebars positioned behind the platen, the Waverley offers much more than one classification can possibly convey.
2017, Typewriters: Iconic Machines from the Golden Age of Mechanical Writing, →ISBN:Oak tables displayed platoons of typewriters: downstrike typewriters, upstrike typewriters, vintage World War I typewriters, turn-of-thecentury^([sic]) typewriters—a 1901 Armstrong, a Densmore 1, a brass 1881 Hamilton Automatic, even an 1877 Sholes & Glidden in its case --each perfect in its kind, primed and polished so the metal shone.
2011, Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector, →ISBN, page 25:
-
A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
Sizes now available in vertical downstrike balers are: 72 inches, 60 inches and 36 inches.
1974, Paper Board Packaging - Volume 59, Issues 7-12, page 95:My invention relates to pianofortes of the general character embodied in my United States Letters Patent No. 2,377,582, issued June 5, 1945, and wherein is disclosed and claimed a horizontal, downstrike hammer action particularly adapted, although not necessarily, for use in a lightweight, portable piano.
1952, SC Shill, Piano action: US Patent 2,620,700:After loading in a 15 MN downstrike press, providing 168 MPa, a volume reduction by a factor of 4.6 is achieved.
1985, International Atomic Energy Agency, Management of cladding hulls and fuel hardware:
-
A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
In hypothermia, the downstrike of QRS on an ECG is called the 'J' point.
2009, Lori Schumacher, Cynthia C. Chernecky, Critical Care and Emergency Nursing, →ISBN, page 96:I have marked the accented syllable by the Downstrike, leaving the unaccented ones to the Upstrike
1911 Jan-Mar, OG Sonneck, “" Caractacus" Not Arne's Caractacus”, in Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft, volume 12, number 2:These figures are rendered as usual in Arabic letters and, as is well known, these are especially apt to confound the figures for 10 and 50 by a wrong (or lacking) puctuation^([sic])...and those for 3 and 8 (8 being written as ح and 3 by the same letter but with an incomplete downstrike م).
1954, Johannes Hendrik Kramers, Analecta Orientalia: posthumous writings and selected minor works:
Forms
downstrike en · VERB
Etymology
From down + strike.
Meanings
-
To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
God does not downstrike me, a god ?
1872, Herbert Randolph, So far [poems]., page 45:There too the downstruck foe must yield his loos'ning grip.
1877, John Dryden Corbet, The Collected Poems of John Dryden Corbet - Volume 1, page 318:Nearly twenty years have elapsed since my friend was downstruck by his attack.
1862, Half-year abstract of medical sciences - Volume 35, page 106:
-
To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
I tried to animate myself to behave a little more social, turning in circles a couple of times, making a slinky stepping pattern, and generally quickening my behavior in order to appear more alert and excited. I was not picked. I was downstruck. I felt the world had collapsed for me!
2011, Jan Gero, Me on Me, →ISBN:Instead of the downstricken criminal I had dreamed of, there stood before me a man of society thinking about the affairs of his club.
2012, Julian Hawthorne, The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations, →ISBN, page 247:Did you imagine us bigguns your servants, mebbe, or some such downstruck types?' 'Nobody were downstruck there. They were all with telling me what to do.
2010, Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels, →ISBN, page 108:
-
(of current or lightning) To arc to ground in a downstrike.
While a number of successful interruptions were made with this chute, it exhibited a proneness to "downstrike." The arc would run down one of the baffles onto one of the arcing contacts and short- circuit a portion of the metallic baffle stack.
1962 -, Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, page 204:
-
To strike from above.
This was a downstriking hammer which hit the strings at a point where a silk band revolved against them, activated by a treadle.
1982, David Wainwright, Broadwood, by appointment: a history, page 55:The wood in the Luberon looked back at him, the shafts of downstriking sunlight, the tiny scrap of fluttering light.
2010, Diane Duane, Dark Mirror, →ISBN:The car jerked away just as Piyal was knocked down, and looking up the last he saw was so many downstriking, hammering feet.
2014, Randy Boyagoda, Beggar's Feast, →ISBN:As one might imagine, the design of a downstriking action is very challenging since gravity cannot be used to help bring the hammer back to its “ready” position in preparation for a subsequent note.
2016, Nicholas J. Giordano, Physics of the Piano, →ISBN:The boy glimmered Among the hollowed darkness of the rocks, Shot through the shallow places laughing, Stood in the sunlight, high up, And like a god suspended in green air He followed falling water and downstruck.
2014, May Sarton, The Land of Silence: And Other Poems, →ISBN:Tim felt himself lowered a few inches, his feet finding the ground again, and, as Debuffier's hand reared back to deliver a paralyzing blow to the head, Tim rotated in, Green Beret style, a downstriking punch to the groin, quick and hard like a bear river-plunging for fish.
2013, Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause, →ISBN:
-
To move downward in a striking motion.
Parsival bounced upright and as the fellow reined close and chopped a swordstroke at his head the young knight, forgetting his own weapon in his rage, caught the downstriking arm with both hands and heaved the shocked man up out of his seat, across his own horse's neck, and spinning down the hill after his companion who was still rolling, quite slowly now, in the lush green field.
1984, Richard Monaco, Parsival, Or a Knight's Tale, →ISBN, page 98:For example, a short card requiring minimum carding of short fibres may be designed to take fibres from the feed rollers using a downstriking licker straight to the cylinder.
2006, S J Russell, Handbook of Nonwovens, →ISBN, page 41:Quill stood at the railing and watched the bird slowly fade into the distance, swooping gloriously under bridges, its downstriking wingtips all but flicking the water.
2013, Roger Levy, Icarus, →ISBN:
-
To go in a downward direction.
Those which are full of spindly, ingrowing wood we will thin rigorously, working with one of the nursery models before our mind's eye, and taking care that when our task is done, not a single ingrowing or downstriking shoot is left on the tree.
1917, Walter Page Wright, Food, Fruit & Flowers, page 202:A parent-child dialogue is a downstriking dialogue and a child-parent dialogue is an upstriking dialogue.
1976, Robert E. Longacre, An Anatomy of Speech Notions, page 195:
-
To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
There was no trace of plaster inside the stair tower in the Barns: most of the interior was in brick, and the mortar pointing was downstruck and usually scored.
2003, Essex Archaeology and History:A struck joint is made by running the trowel along the joint before the mortar is hard, either pressing in at the top: upstruck (or weathered), which exposes the mortar to the weather, or pressing in at the bottom: downstruck (or struck).
2012, Sarah Gunn, Stone House Construction, →ISBN, page 112:
-
To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.
Armstrong doesn't use the story-within-a-story motif; his version begins with a New Orleans funeral jazz slow shuffle, picking up the tempo at 0.08, led by Armstrong's trumpet, trailed by the unmistakably wildly wandering New Orleans clarinet, skeletal barrelhouse piano, downstruck banjo and the ragged-shoed chuf-chuf-chuf of the melancholic New Orleans swing.
2010, Peter Mills, Hymns to the Silence: Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison, →ISBN:
Forms