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stride

/stɹaɪd/

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What does stride mean?

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.
More meanings (6)

verb

  1. 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.

proper noun

  1. A surname.

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IPA pronunciation

/stɹaɪd/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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Even in outward demeanour they showed a stamp of majesty that made the warrior’s haughty stride look vulgar, if not absurd.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterProject Gutenberg ebook #33
I mean to stride your steed and at all times To undercrest your good addition To th’ fairness of my power.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
More book examples (3)
Most of us now had lost the first speed of the chase, and had fallen into a longer and steadier stride.
H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe island of Doctor MoreauProject Gutenberg ebook #159
Pity, that “new-born babe” which was by-and-by to rule many a storm within her, did not “stride the blast” on this occasion.
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
The huge limbs moved as steadily as pistons, eight feet to each stride, and the wrinkled skin of the elbow points rustled.
Rudyard KiplingThe Jungle BookProject Gutenberg ebook #236