Stride
31stride — v. & n. v. (past strode; past part. stridden) 1 intr. & tr. walk with long firm steps. 2 tr. cross with one step. 3 tr. bestride; straddle. n. 1 a a single long step. b the length of this. 2 a person s gait as determined by the length of stride.… …
32stride — I. verb (strode; stridden; striding) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English strīdan; akin to Middle Low German striden to straddle, Old High German strītan to quarrel Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to stand astride 2. to move …
33stride — [straɪd] (past tense strode [strəʊd] ; past participle stridden [ˈstrɪd(ə)n] ) verb [I] I to walk with energy and confidence She strode onto the platform.[/ex] II noun [C] stride [straɪd] a long confident step • get into your stride to begin to… …
34stride — See: HIT ONE S STRIDE, TAKE IN STRIDE …
35stride — See: HIT ONE S STRIDE, TAKE IN STRIDE …
36stride — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. step, pace; progress, improvement. v. walk, march, step; straddle. See travel, motion. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. walk, pace, measured step; see gait 1 . • hit one s stride*, Syn. get up to normal, get… …
37stride — See: hit one s stride, take in stride …
38stride — be·stride; stride; …
39stride — 1. noun /straɪd/ a) A long step. 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... b) The number of memory locations between successive… …
40stride — [OE] Stride comes from a prehistoric Germanic base *strīd , whose other descendants (German streiten and Dutch strijden ‘quarrel’, Swedish and Danish strid ‘strife, affliction’) suggest a basic underlying meaning ‘severity, great effort’. There… …
