stride

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   significant progress (especially in the phrase 'make strides')

   they made big strides in productivity

2. 2
   verb

   To walk with long steps.

   Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field.

3. 3
   verb

   To pass over at a step; to step over.

   a debtor that not dares to stride a limit

4. 4
   verb

   To straddle; to bestride.

   I mean to stride your steed.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   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 […]

7. 7
   noun

   a step in walking or running

8. 8
   noun

   the distance covered by a step

Etymology

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”).