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stryde

stryde is the obsolete form 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.

See all 9 meanings of stride

Forms of stryde

Noun
pluralstrydes
Verb
third-person singular presentstrydes
present participlestryding
past participlestrode
paststrode

Questions about stryde

What is stryde the obsolete form of?
Stryde is the obsolete form of stride.

Words near stryde in the dictionary

  1. strychnize
  2. strychnized
  3. strychnizes
  4. strychnizing
  5. strychnospermine
  6. stryde
  7. strydes
  8. stryding
  9. stryfe
  10. Stryi
  11. Stryjewka

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