Meaning of downstrike | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
2. A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
3. A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
4. A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
5. A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
6. A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
7. A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
8. A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.

Examples

“Seventeen hundred downstrikes of lightning later, destruction reigns over southwest Oregon.”

“Lightning downstrikes became visible as it crossed Beekman Ridge south of Butte Falls.”

“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.”

“Besides forming new cores, arcs may also form branches, and "downstrikes" are liable to be particularly troublesome.”

“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.”

“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.”

“These "downstrikes" were recorded with an electromagnetic oscillograph and a high-speed camera, and now a good correlation exists between the two records.”

“Attacker executes a downstrike. Defender performs a two-hand catch, blocks, rotates through and performs an elbow-break with accompanying shoulder dislocation.”

“Its blades gleam with stolen light; the long sword slips up to Jodan to block their downstrike.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is sort of like paying a carpenter for the downstrike of his hammer and saying the upstroke is on his on time.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Shaft 24a carried the back check 24 for checking the downstrike of its related hammer 22.”

“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.”

“These machines had straight-line keyboards and a semicircular downstrike typebasket that made for easy visibility by the typist.”

“Oak tables displayed platoons of typewriters: downstrike typewriters, upstrike typewriters, vintage World War I typewriters, turn-of-thecentury 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Sizes now available in vertical downstrike balers are: 72 inches, 60 inches and 36 inches.”

“After loading in a 15 MN downstrike press, providing 168 MPa, a volume reduction by a factor of 4.6 is achieved.”

“I have marked the accented syllable by the Downstrike, leaving the unaccented ones to the Upstrike”

“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...and those for 3 and 8 (8 being written as ح and 3 by the same letter but with an incomplete downstrike م).”

“In hypothermia, the downstrike of QRS on an ECG is called the 'J' point.”

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