stride
nounEtymology From Middle English stride, stryde, from Old English stride (“a stride, pace”), from the verb (see above). Doublet of strid.
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A long step in walking.
- Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
- An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight.2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:
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- Rail technology advanced step by step - albeit electrification was a good stride, rather than a short step.2024 January 10, Philip Haigh, “Four decades of Britain's railway evolution - step by step”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 65:
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The distance covered by a long step.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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, Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful Code:
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, 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.
- Derived terms
- astride, break stride, break one's stride, cockstride, get into one's stride, giant stride, hit one's stride, in stride, interstride, make strides, midstride, no-stride, overstride, stride bass, strided, stride piano, strides, take something in stride, take something in one's stride