EGAVE

stride

About 2.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To walk with long steps.
  2. verb To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
  3. verb To pass over at a step; to step over.
  4. verb To straddle.
  5. noun A long step in walking.
    She set off with a purposeful stride.
  6. noun The distance covered by a long step.
  7. noun The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
  8. noun 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.

Similar words

step pace tread footstep march gait leap move upside height

Often followed by

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Word family

stridden stride piano strider striders strides striding strode

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