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stride

Pronunciation: /stɹaɪd/

The English word “stride” has 8 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To walk with long steps.
  2. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
  3. To pass over at a step; to step over.
  4. To straddle.

noun

  1. A long step in walking.
  2. The distance covered by a long step.
  3. The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
  4. 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.

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”).

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