upstroke

NOUN
  1. a stroke normally made in an upward direction
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  • The video shows a bird with white in a big rectangle all the way across the trailing edges of both upperwings - white that is visible on both the upstroke and the downstroke - long wings - powerful flight - like nothing I've ever seen.
  • In his teaching and practice he would force an inhale on the downstroke of a squat and then have a forced exhale on the upstroke, which he called optimal breathing. On Yoga
  • Rayner et al. suggested that in both bats and birds flying in air, wingbeat gaits (the cyclic pattern of wing movements) are in fact defined by upstroke function, which varies with wing morphology.
  • However, in films of murres underwater, relative upstroke speed and thrust appear (without kinematic analysis) to be greater during vertical descent against high buoyancy than during horizontal swimming.
  • Their ghostly appearance is enhanced by the fact that the undersides of their chalk-white wings are dark brown, so with every upstroke they seem to disappear in the moonlight, then reappear on the downstroke. Country diary: Blanchland, Northumberland-Durham border
  • Their ghostly appearance is enhanced by the fact that the undersides of their chalk-white wings are dark brown, so with every upstroke they seem to disappear in the moonlight, then reappear on the downstroke. Country diary: Blanchland, Northumberland-Durham border
  • The upstroke as well as downstroke require enormous strength; every stroke is a power stroke. Birdology
  • With the upstroke everything advances to the next stage and a third case can be inserted in the holding plate. Reloading kit
  • Voltage-sensitive Na + channels are responsible for the upstroke of the action potential in excitable cells.
  • Emerson, while you are singing lead, strum only the downstroke, leave out the upstroke, and see how that lets the chord ring. EVENING’S EMPIRE
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