downstrike

A bolt of lightning that touches ground.

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

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

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.

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.

A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.

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.

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.

A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.

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

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To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.

Nearly twenty years have elapsed since my friend was downstruck by his attack.

God does not downstrike me, a god ?

To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.

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.

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!

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.

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.

The wood in the Luberon looked back at him, the shafts of downstriking sunlight, the tiny scrap of fluttering light.

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.

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.

downward or further down.

The Earlies Gap Biotite Gneiss may therefore indicate a downstrike lithologic change resulting from original variations of the protolith and from a more thorough.

Pyroclastics along the southeast shore of Manitou Island appear to be the [downstrike] equivalents of Troutlet Lake pyroclastics.