stride

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To walk with long steps.

   • Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field.
2. 2

   To stand with the legs wide apart

   To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.

3. 3

   To pass over at a step

   To pass over at a step; to step over.

   • a debtor that not dares to stride a limit
   • For SAC66 is better known as Batty Moss (or Ribblehead) Viaduct - the magnificent, Grade 2-listed, 24-arch structure that strides over the pockmarked ground between Ribblehead station and Blea Moor signal box.
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   1. 4

      To straddle.

      • I mean to stride your steed.
      • The air and manner of the horseman bespoke him of superior order;[…]. The rich housings of the beast he strode, proclaimed its owner of illustrious race; […]
   2. 5

      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.
      • Rail technology advanced step by step - albeit electrification was a good stride, rather than a short step.
   3. 6

      The distance covered by a long step.

   4. 7

      The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a…

      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 […]
   5. 8

      A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a…

      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.

   6. 9

      A surname.

The neighborhood