stride

See also stridé

English

Etymology

From Old English stridan (“to stride”), from Proto-Germanic *strīdanan.

Pronunciation

• enPR: strīd, IPA: /straɪd/, SAMPA: /straId/

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Noun

stride (plural strides)

1. A long step.
   • 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, Telegraph:

     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 towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight.

2. (computing) The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
   • 2007, Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful code

     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...

Derived terms

• take something in one’s stride
• get into one's stride
• strides (Australian, plural only)

Translations

long step

Finnish: harppaus (fi)

Italian: falcata (it) f.

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To walk with long steps.

Translations

to walk with long steps

Dutch: schrijden (nl) Finnish: (once, take one long step) harpata (fi), (continuously) harppoa (fi) German: schreiten (de)

Italian: scavalcare (it) Polish: kroczyć (pl)

Usage notes

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

Anagrams

• direst
• driest
• drites
• ridest

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Italian

Verb

stride

1. third-person singular present indicative of stridere

Anagrams

• destri

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Latin

Verb

strīde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of strīdō

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Norwegian

Verb

å stride

1. to battle

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Swedish

Adjective

stride

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of strid.