STRIDE

stride

(noun) significant progress (especially in the phrase ‘make strides’); “they made big strides in productivity”

pace, stride, tread

(noun) a step in walking or running

footstep, pace, step, stride

(noun) the distance covered by a step; “he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig”

stride

(verb) cover or traverse by taking long steps; “She strode several miles towards the woods”

stride

(verb) walk with long steps; “He strode confidently across the hall”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

stride (third-person singular simple present strides, present participle striding, simple past strode, past participle strode or strid or stridden)

(intransitive) 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; to bestride.

Usage notes

• The past participle of stride is extremely rare and mostly obsolete. Many people have trouble producing a form that feels natural.

Etymology 2

From the above verb.

Noun

stride (countable and uncountable, plural strides)

(countable) A long step in walking.

(countable) The distance covered by a long step.

(countable, computing) The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.

(uncountable, music genre) 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.

Anagrams

• direst, disert, dister, driest, drites, redist, ridest

Proper noun

Stride

A surname.

Anagrams

• direst, disert, dister, driest, drites, redist, ridest

Source: Wiktionary

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Stride, v. t. [imp. Strode (Obs. Strid (); p. p. Stridden (Obs. Strid); p. pr. & vb. n. Striding.] Etym: [AS. stridan to stride, to strive; akin to LG. striden, OFries. strida to strive, D. strijden to strive, to contend, G. streiten, OHG. stritan; of uncertain origin. Cf. Straddle.]

1. To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field. Dryden.

2. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.

Stride, v. t.

1. To pass over at a step; to step over. "A debtor that not dares to stride a limit." Shak.

2. To straddle; to bestride. I mean to stride your steed. Shak.

Stride, n.

Definition: The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride. Pope. God never meant that man should scale the heavens By strides of human wisdom. Cowper.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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