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stride
/stɹaɪd/
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What does stride mean?
verb
- To walk with long steps.
- To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
- To pass over at a step; to step over.
More meanings (6)
verb
- To straddle.
noun
- A long step in walking.
- The distance covered by a long step.
- The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
- 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
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/stɹaɪd/
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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.
I mean to stride your steed and at all times To undercrest your good addition To th’ fairness of my power.
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.
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.
The huge limbs moved as steadily as pistons, eight feet to each stride, and the wrinkled skin of the elbow points rustled.