stride
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
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entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: strides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: striding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: strode
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stridden
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: strode
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: strid
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: strides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To walk with long steps.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field.
gloss: To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
pos: verb
gloss: To pass over at a step; to step over.
pos: verb
examples: a debtor that not dares to stride a limit
For SAC66 is better known as Batty Moss (or Ribblehead) Viaduct - the magnificent, Grade 2-listed, 24-arch structure that strides over the pockmarked ground between Ribblehead station and Blea Moor signal box.
gloss: To straddle.
pos: verb
examples: I mean to stride your steed.
The air and manner of the horseman bespoke him of superior order;[…]. The rich housings of the beast he strode, proclaimed its owner of illustrious race; […]
gloss: A long step in walking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.
An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight.
Rail technology advanced step by step - albeit electrification was a good stride, rather than a short step.
gloss: The distance covered by a long step.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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 […]
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: bestride
outstride
striddle
strider
stridingly
overstride
astride
break stride
break one's stride
cockstride
get into one's stride
giant stride
hit one's stride
in stride
interstride
make strides
midstride
no-stride
stride bass
strided
stride piano
strides
take something in stride
take something in one's stride
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: galmu
lang: Asturian
word: galmiada
lang: Bulgarian
word: разкрач
roman: razkrač
lang: Catalan
word: gambada
lang: Finnish
word: harppaus
lang: French
word: enjambée
lang: Galician
word: alancada
lang: Irish
word: truslóg
lang: Italian
word: falcata
lang: Italian
word: lungo passo
lang: Māori
word: whāronatanga
lang: Persian
word: شلنگ
roman: šeleng
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Schrett
lang: Polish
word: krok
lang: Spanish
word: zancada
lang: Spanish
word: paso largo
lang: Spanish
word: zancajada
lang: Spanish
word: tranco
lang: Spanish
word: trancada
lang: Welsh
word: brasgam