name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
A long step in walking.
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Usage: countable
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noun
The distance covered by a long step.
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Usage: countable
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noun
The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
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Usage: countable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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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.
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Usage: uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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verb
To walk with long steps.
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Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: lope
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verb
To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
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verb
To pass over at a step; to step over.
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verb
To straddle.
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Synonyms: bestride
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noun
significant progress (especially in the phrase)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: advancement, progress
noun
a step in walking or running
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Synonyms: pace, tread
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Broader terms: step
noun
the distance covered by a step
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Synonyms: footstep, pace, step
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Broader terms: indefinite quantity
verb
cover or traverse by taking long steps
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Broader terms: traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
verb
walk with long steps
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Broader terms: walk
History
English surname, from the noun stride.
From Middle English stride, stryde, from Old English stride (“a stride, pace”), from the verb (see above). Doublet of strid.
From Middle English striden, from Old English strīdan (“stride”), from Proto-West Germanic *strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Cognate with Low German striden (“to fight, to stride”), Dutch strijden (“to fight”), German streiten (“to fight, to quarrel”).
Across languages
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