stride

Meanings

Verb

• To walk with long steps.
• To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
• To pass over at a step; to step over.
• To straddle; to bestride.

Noun

• A long step in walking.
• The distance covered by a long step.
• The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
• 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.

Origin

• From Middle English striden, from Old English strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Cognate with Low German striden ("to fight, to stride"), Dutch strijden ("to fight"), German streiten ("to fight, to quarrel").
• From Middle English stride, stryde, from Old English stride, from the verb (see above). strid.