Stride

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  • intransitive verb. To walk with long steps, especially in a hasty or vigorous way.
  • intransitive verb. To take a single long step, as in passing over an obstruction.
  • intransitive verb. To stand or sit astride; straddle.
  • intransitive verb. To walk with long steps on, along, or over.
  • intransitive verb. To step over or across.
  • intransitive verb. To be astride of; straddle.
  • noun. The act of striding.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A single long step.
  • noun. The distance traveled in such a step.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A single coordinated movement of the four legs of a horse or other animal, completed when the legs return to their initial relative position.
  • noun. The distance traveled in such a movement.
  • noun. A step of progress; an advance.
  • idiom. (hit (one's) stride) To achieve a steady, effective pace.
  • idiom. (hit (one's) stride) To attain a maximum level of competence.
  • idiom. (take in stride) To cope with calmly, without interrupting one's normal routine.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To walk with long steps; step.
  • To stand with the feet far apart; straddle.
  • To pass over at a step: as, to stride a ditch.
  • To sit astride on; bestride; straddle; ride upon.
  • noun. A step, especially one that is long, measured, or pompous; a wide stretch of the legs in walking.
  • noun. The space measured or the ground covered by a long step, or between putting down one foot and raising the other.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To pass over at a step; to step over.
  • transitive verb. To straddle; to bestride.
  • noun. The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step.
  • transitive verb. To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner.
  • transitive verb. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A long step.
  • noun. The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
  • verb. To walk with long steps.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. significant progress (especially in the phrase
  • verb. cover or traverse by taking long steps
  • verb. walk with long steps
  • noun. the distance covered by a step
  • noun. a step in walking or running
  • Word Usage
    "I suppose he means by this two things: that these great movements of our modern life are not any evidence of a permanent advance, and that our whole structure may tumble into a heap of incoherent sand, as systems of society have done before; and, again, that it is questionable if, in what we call a stride in civilization, the individual citizen is becoming any purer or more just, or if his intelligence is directed towards learning and doing what is right, or only to the means of more extended pleasures."
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    Clyde  Eid  Hyde  Outside  Pride  
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    beat  footstep  gait  gallop  grasp  
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    stridden  strode  
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