stride
IPA: strˈaɪd
noun
- (countable) A long step in walking.
- (countable) The distance covered by a long step.
- (countable, computing) The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
- (uncountable, music) 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.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To walk with long steps.
- To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
- To pass over at a step; to step over.
- To straddle; to bestride.
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Examples of "stride" in Sentences
- He strides to the palace.
- Lenny and the others stride.
- The crowd stride with anger.
- For infants, it is hard to stride.
- The soldiers are trained to stride.
- He strides to the store to buy a gum.
- The countrymen really began to stride.
- The stride will become stiff and inelastic.
- The plant is making strides to amend the problem.
- The temple symbolises the majestic stride of the God.
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