stride.
To walk with long steps.
Meaning & usage
To walk with long steps.
To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
To pass over at a step; to step over.
To straddle.
Where this word 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”).
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English stride, stryde, from Old English stride (“a stride, pace”), from the verb (see above). Doublet of strid.
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