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stride¹
- /stɹaɪd/
- /stɹɛɪd/ Northumbria
Rhymes with -aɪd
Where it comes from
From Middle English striden, from Old English strīdan (“stride”), from Proto-West Germanic *strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Cognate with Low German striden (“to fight, to stride”), Dutch strijden (“to fight”), German streiten (“to fight, to quarrel”).
verb strides · striding · strode · stridden · strid
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To walk with long steps.
Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field.
Similar: lope
- To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
- To pass over at a step; to step over. a debtor that not dares to stride a limit
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To straddle.
I mean to stride your steed.
Similar: bestride
stride²
- /stɹaɪd/
- /stɹɛɪd/ Northumbria
Rhymes with -aɪd
Where it comes from
From Middle English stride, stryde, from Old English stride (“a stride, pace”), from the verb (see above). Doublet of strid.
noun strides
- A long step in walking. She set off with a purposeful stride.
- The distance covered by a long step.
- The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc. This stride value is generally equal to the pixel width of the bitmap times the number of bytes per pixel, but for performance reasons it might be rounded […]
- A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.
Stride³
Where it comes from
English surname, from the noun stride.
proper noun
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: step, pace, tread, footstep, march, gait, leap, move, upside, height, progress, pinnacle, peak, wake, heyday, rate
Translations
Every language
verb to walk with long steps
| Español | dar zancadas, caminar a zancadas, andar a zancajadas, marchar a trancos, ambular a trancadas |
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| 中文 | 跨 kuà |
| Português | andar com passos largos |
| Français | enjamber arpenter |
| Deutsch | schreiten |
| Italiano | scavalcare |
| Русский | шага́ть šagátʹ, выша́гивать vyšágivatʹ |
verb to step over
| Русский | переша́гивать perešágivatʹ, перешагну́ть perešagnútʹ |
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noun long step
| Español | zancada, paso largo, zancajada, tranco, trancada |
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| Français | enjambée |
| Italiano | falcata, lungo passo |
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title = {stride},
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