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What (who) is stride - definition
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Stride (disambiguation); Strides; Structural identification; STRIDE (disambiguation); STRIDE
stride
(strides, striding, strode)
1.
If you stride somewhere, you walk there with quick, long steps.
They were joined by a newcomer who came striding across a field...
He turned abruptly and strode off down the corridor.
VERB: V prep/adv, V prep/adv
2.
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.
N-COUNT
3.
Someone's stride is their way of walking with long steps.
He lengthened his stride to keep up with her.
N-SING: usu poss N
4.
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.
N-COUNT: usu pl, usu adj N
5.
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...
PHRASE: V inflects
6.
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.
PHRASE: V inflects
stride
¦ verb (past strode; past participle stridden)
1. walk with long, decisive steps.
2. (stride across/over) cross (an obstacle) with one long step.
3. literary bestride.
¦ noun
1. a long, decisive step.
the length of a step or manner of taking steps.
2. a step in progress towards an aim.
(one's stride) a good or regular rate of progress, especially after a slow start.
3. (strides) Brit. informal trousers.
4. [as modifier] denoting a rhythmic style of jazz piano playing in which the left hand alternately plays single bass notes on the downbeat and chords an octave higher on the upbeat.
Phrases
take something in one's stride (US also take something in stride) deal with something difficult in a calm way.
Derivatives
strider noun
Origin
OE stride (n.) 'single long step', stridan (v.) 'stand or walk with the legs wide apart', prob. from a Gmc base meaning 'strive, quarrel'.
Stride
·vt To pass over at a step; to step over.
II. Stride ·vt To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner.
IV. Stride ·vt To stand with the legs wide apart; to Straddle.
V. Stride ·noun The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride.
Examples of use of stride
1. McCain‘s campaign has been knocked off stride –– not that it was ever entirely on stride –– by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al–Maliki‘s endorsement of Obama‘s withdrawal timetable.
2. Investors on Friday took Dourado‘s resignation in stride.
3. Travelers seemed to take the inspections in stride.
4. Travelers seemed to take the disruption in stride.
5. But travelers seemed to be taking the disruption in stride.