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stride Definition

stride (strīd)

intransitive verb strode, stridden strid′·den, striding strid′·ing

  1. to walk with long steps, esp. in a vigorous or swaggering manner
  2. to take a single, long step (esp. over something)
  3. Rare to sit or stand astride

Etymology: ME striden < OE stridan, akin to Ger streiten, to quarrel < IE *streidh- < base *(s)ter-, to be stiff, rigid > stare, starve

transitive verb

  1. to take a single, long step in passing over (an obstacle, etc.)
  2. to walk with long steps along or through to stride the street
  3. to sit or stand astride of; straddle; bestride

noun

  1. the act of striding
    1. a long step in walking or running
    2. the distance covered by such a step
    1. any single forward movement by a four-legged animal, completed when the legs return to their original relative positions
    2. the distance covered in such a movement
  4. a manner of running; gait
  5. progress; advancement to make rapid strides

adjective

Jazz designating or of a style of piano playing in which the left hand alternates rhythmically between a strong bass note and middle range chords

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stride Idioms

hit one's stride

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to reach one's normal speed or level of efficiency

take in (one's) stride

to cope with easily and without undue effort or hesitation
stride Synonyms

stride

n.

walk, pace, measured step; see gait 1.

hit one's stride*

get up to normal, get better, arrive; see develop 1, improve.

take in one's stride*

handle, do easily, do naturally, deal with, cope; see also manage 1.

stride Synonyms

stride

v.

stamp, march, walk pompously; see walk 1.

stride Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • make: The strides made by the company toward these goals have been enormous.

Adjective modifier

  • giant: There have been giant strides made in 20th century to identify them.
  • purposeful: Basey fed the run of the Phillips who, with no blue shirt prepared to approach him, made purposeful strides into the box.
  • gigantic: It should be surprisingly simple to make gigantic strides in combating poverty, disease and illiteracy throughout the world.
  • enormous: Mr Hain launched the program at Tywyn Primary in Port Talbot, a school which has made enormous strides in providing inclusive education.
  • tremendous: Neural networks to is careful to reform easy to insurance for ireland car rental imagine making tremendous strides.
  • rapid: Gershwin's career after his hit with Swanee was one of increasingly rapid strides to the top of his profession.

Modifies a noun

  • length: Power is required to sprint, the greater the leg power the greater the stride length.
  • vector: A vector with a linear subscript is processed as a continuous or constant stride vector.
  • frequency: Stride frequency is the time required to complete a stride and is limited by the stride length.

Modifying Another Word

  • boldly: If this seems like materialist darkness we must stride boldly into it.

Noun used with modifier

  • scanline: The scanline stride will be the same as the width.
  • pixel: Pixel stride is the number of data array elements between two samples for the same band on the same scanline.
stride Quotes

In the spacious highways of books major or minor, each poet is allowed the stride that will get him where he wants to go if,God help him, he can hit that stride and keep it.

—Sandburg, Carl

There is no reason why the infield should not try to put the batter off his stride at the critical moment, by neatly- timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

—Shaw, George Bernard