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Lion vs Stride - What's the difference?

lion | stride |

As verbs the difference between lion and stride

is that lion is fill while stride is .

As a noun lion

is net, web.

lion

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A big cat, Panthera leo , native to Africa, India and formerly to much of Europe. The term may apply to the species as a whole, to individuals, or to male individuals. It also applies to related species like mountain lions.
    • Tigers and lions share a common ancestor from a few million years ago.
  • # A male lion.
  • (heraldiccharge) A stylized representation of a large cat, used on a coat of arms.
  • A Chinese foo dog.
  • An individual who shows strength and courage, attributes associated with the lion.
  • * 2003 , Peter Armstrong and Angus McBride, Stirling Bridge & Falkirk 1297–98: William Wallace's Rebellion :
    • It was said of [Edward Plantaganet] that 'he was a lion for pride and ferocity but a pard for inconstancy and changeableness, not keeping his word or promise but excusing himself with fair words'.
  • A famous person regarded with interest and curiosity.
  • * Prof. Wilson
    • Such society was far more enjoyable than that of Edinburgh, for here he was not a lion , but a man.
  • * 1919 ,
    • Rose Waterford was a cynic. She looked upon life as an opportunity for writing novels and the public as her raw material. Now and then she invited members of it to her house if they showed an appreciation of her talent and entertained with proper lavishness. She held their weakness for lions in good-humoured contempt, but played to them her part of the distinguished woman of letters with decorum.
  • A light brown color that resembles the fur of a lion

    • Coordinate terms

    * (Panthera leo) cougar, leopard, panther, puma, tiger * (male lion individual) cub, lioness

    Holonyms

    * (individual Panthera leo) pride

    Derived terms

    * antlion, ant lion * aphid lion, aphis lion * beard the lion * Cape lion * cave lion * dandelion * golden lion tamarin * Lion of Judah * Lion of St Mark * Lion of Venice * lion's ear * lion's foot * lion's leaf * lion's share * lion's tail * lion's tooth * lion cub * lioness * lionfish * Lionheart * lionhearted, lion-hearted * lionhood * lionise, lionize * lionism * lionlike * lionly * lionship * marsupial lion * mountain lion * Nemean lion * sea lion * Steller's sea lion * twist the lion's tail

    Related terms

    * leo * Leon * Leonids * leonine * Lion's club * Lion's sermon * Lyon

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of the light brown color that resembles the fur of a lion.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia) * (Panthera leo) * (commonslite) * *

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    stride

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To walk with long steps.
  • * Dryden
    • Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is graved, and strides along the liquid field.
  • To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
  • To pass over at a step; to step over.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a debtor that not dares to stride a limit
  • To straddle; to bestride.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I mean to stride your steed.
    Usage notes
    * The past participle of (term) is extremely rare and mostly obsolete. Many people have trouble producing a form that feels natural. Language Log][http://www.languagehat.com/archives/003282.php Language Hat

    Etymology 2

    See the above verb.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long step.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=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 .}}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=November 10 , author=Jeremy Wilson , title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , work=Telegraph citation , page= , passage=An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight. }}
  • (computing) The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
  • * 2007 , Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful code
    • 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
  • 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.
    • Derived terms
    * bestride * * take something in stride * get into one's stride * strides (qualifier)

    Anagrams

    * * * *

    References

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