stride

stride
[[t]stra͟ɪd[/t]]
strides, striding, strode
1) VERB If you stride somewhere, you walk there with quick, long steps.

[V prep/adv] They were joined by a newcomer who came striding across a field...

[V prep/adv] He turned abruptly and strode off down the corridor.

2) N-COUNT A stride is a long step which you take when you are walking or running.

With every stride, runners hit the ground with up to five times their body-weight...

He walked with long strides.

3) N-SING: usu poss N Someone's stride is their way of walking with long steps.

He lengthened his stride to keep up with her.

4) N-COUNT: usu pl, usu adj N If you make strides in something that you are doing, you make rapid progress in it.

The country has made enormous strides politically but not economically.

5) PHRASE: V inflects If you get into your stride or hit your stride, you start to do something easily and confidently, after being slow and uncertain.

The campaign is just getting into its stride...

He's still learning and when he hits his stride, he'll be unstoppable.

6) PHRASE: V inflects In British English, if you take a problem or difficulty in your stride, you deal with it calmly and easily. The American expression is take something in stride.

Beth was struck by how Naomi took the mistake in her stride.


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  • stride — stride …   The Old English to English

  • stride — stride …   English to the Old English

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  • stride — ► VERB (past strode; past part. stridden) 1) walk with long, decisive steps. 2) (stride across/over) cross (an obstacle) with one long step. ► NOUN 1) a long, decisive step. 2) the length of a step or manne …   English terms dictionary

  • stride — [strīd] vi. strode, stridden, striding [ME striden < OE stridan, akin to Ger streiten, to quarrel < IE * streidh < base * (s)ter , to be stiff, rigid > STARE, STARVE] 1. to walk with long steps, esp. in a vigorous or swaggering manner …   English World dictionary

  • Stride — Stride, v. t. 1. To pass over at a step; to step over. A debtor that not dares to stride a limit. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To straddle; to bestride. [1913 Webster] I mean to stride your steed. Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Stride — Stride, v. t. [imp. {Strode}(Obs. {Strid}); p. p. {Stridden}(Obs. {Strid}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Striding}.] [AS. str[=i]dan to stride, to strive; akin to LG. striden, OFries. str[=i]da to strive, D. strijden to strive, to contend, G. streiten, OHG.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Stride — Stride, n. The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride. Pope. [1913 Webster] God never meant that man should scale the heavens By strides of human wisdom. Cowper. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • stride — ● stride nom masculin (anglais stride, enjambée) Style de piano issu du ragtime, caractérisé par l alternance à la main gauche d une note basse sur les temps forts et d un accord plaqué sur les temps faibles …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Stride — (engl., spr. ßtraid , »weiter Schritt«), Ausgriff eines Pferdes, besonders bei Rennpferden die Weite des Galoppsprunges, die Räumigkeit der Bewegung; ein Pferd mit gutem S. deckt mit jedem Sprung viel Terrain …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

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