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strides

strides is the plural of stride.

strides is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stride.

Meaning of stride

Noun

stride (countable and uncountable, plural strides)

  1. (countable) A long step in walking.
    • She set off with a purposeful stride.
  2. (countable) The distance covered by a long step.
  3. (countable) 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 […]2007, Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful Code
  4. (uncountable) 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.

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Noun

strides pl (plural only)

  1. (Australia, UK, plural, plural-only, slang) Trousers.
    • So he gave him one boot. I said, ‘One boot′s no bloody good! Give him two boot[s]!’ So he chucks over another boot, and a pair of strides.2004, Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga, Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press, page 97
    • He went upstairs and changed into a fresh pair of strides, nipped into the bathroom and gave his hands and face a quick rinse and threw on a clean pullover.2006, Smiley Brymer, The Universal Naked Linesman, AuthorHouse, page 173

Phrases with strides

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Questions about strides

What does strides mean?
Strides means trousers.
What is strides the plural of?
Strides is the plural of stride.
What part of speech is strides?
Strides is a noun.

Words near strides in the dictionary

  1. stridently
  2. stridents
  3. strider
  4. Stridercest
  5. striders
  6. strides
  7. stridest
  8. strideth
  9. stridetime
  10. stridetimes
  11. strideways

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