stride
A long step in walking.
Noun
- A long step in walking.
- 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. - 1907 January, Harold...
- 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...
- Rail technology advanced step by step - albeit electrification was a good stride, rather than a short step. - 2024 January 10, Philip Haigh, “Four decades of Britain's railway evolution - step by step”, in RAIL, number...
- 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 […] - 2007, Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful Code:
- 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.
Origin
From Middle English stride, stryde, from Old English stride (“a stride, pace”), from the verb (see above). Doublet of strid.
Forms
Derived
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 overstride stride bass strided stride piano strides take something in stride take something in one's stride
Verb
- To walk with long steps.
- Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field. - 1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics,...
Synonyms: 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 - 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio),...
- 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. - 2020...
- To straddle.
- I mean to stride your steed. - c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard,...
- 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; […] - 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter II, in The Three Germans....
Synonyms: bestride
Origin
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”).