Sekirov Dictionary

stride

/stɹaɪd/

noun 4
verb 4
forms 8
phrases 4

noun4

•
A long step in walking.
- She set off with a purposeful stride.
The distance covered by a long step.
•
The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
- 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 […] — 2007
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.

verb4

•
To walk with long steps.
- Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field. — 1697
•
To pass over at a step; to step over.
- a debtor that not dares to stride a limit — 1611
To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
•
To straddle.
- I mean to stride your steed. — 1608

forms

strid · strode · strodest · stridden · striding · strides · strideth · stridest

Phrases with stride

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