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Stride
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A long step in walking. countable
"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."
- 2 significant progress (especially in the phrase ‘make strides’) wordnet
- 3 The distance covered by a long step. countable
- 4 a step in walking or running wordnet
- 5 The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc. countable
"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 […]"
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- 6 the distance covered by a step wordnet
- 7 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. uncountable
- 1 To walk with long steps. intransitive
"Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field."
- 2 walk with long steps wordnet
- 3 To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
- 4 To pass over at a step; to step over.
"a debtor that not dares to stride a limit"
- 5 To straddle; to bestride.
"I mean to stride your steed."
Etymology
From Middle English striden, from Old English strīdan (“to get by force, pillage, rob; 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”).
From Middle English stride, stryde, from Old English stride (“a stride, pace”), from the verb (see above). Doublet of strid.
English surname, from the noun stride.
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