Associations to the word «Stride»

Wiktionary

STRIDE, verb. (intransitive) To walk with long steps.
STRIDE, verb. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
STRIDE, verb. To pass over at a step; to step over.
STRIDE, verb. To straddle; to bestride.
STRIDE, noun. A long step.
STRIDE, noun. (computing) The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
STRIDE, noun. (music genre) 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.
STRIDE BASS, noun. (music) A musical device with leaping between the bass and harmony notes in the left hand part of a piano accompaniment.
STRIDE PIANO, noun. (music) A style of piano playing in which the left hand plays a four-beat harmony involving large intervals

Dictionary definition

STRIDE, noun. A step in walking or running.
STRIDE, noun. The distance covered by a step; "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig".
STRIDE, noun. Significant progress (especially in the phrase "make strides"); "they made big strides in productivity".
STRIDE, verb. Walk with long steps; "He strode confidently across the hall".
STRIDE, verb. Cover or traverse by taking long steps; "She strode several miles towards the woods".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King