four-stroke

[ fawr-strohk, fohr- ]

/ ˈfɔrˌstroʊk, ˈfoʊr- /

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adjective Machinery.

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Origin of four-stroke

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby four-stroke

foursome, four-spot, foursquare, four-star, four-striper, four-stroke, fourteen, fourteener, Fourteen Points, fourteenth, Fourteenth Amendment

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How to use four-stroke in a sentence

There are four photos there of representative presidential candidates.
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Four weeks after the injections, all 20 of the participants had developed the antibodies needed to stave off the infection.
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After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
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The injunction, she argued, only applies to these four plaintiffs—not to anyone else.
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Each CAP, also known as an “orbit,” consists on four aircraft.
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A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
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In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
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Before the spinet a bench was placed about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The Seven-score and four on the six middle Bells, the treble leading, and the tenor lying behind every change, makes good Musick.
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British Dictionary definitions for four-stroke

four-stroke

adjective

relating to or designating an internal-combustion engine in which the piston makes four strokes for every explosionUS and Canadian name: four-cycle Compare two-stroke

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