Stride vs Budge - What's the difference?
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To walk with long steps.
* Dryden
To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
To pass over at a step; to step over.
* Shakespeare
To straddle; to bestride.
* Shakespeare
A long step.
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(computing) The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
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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.
To move.
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To move.
To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
* Milton
(obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics
* Milton
Stride is a related term of budge.
As verbs the difference between stride and budge
is that stride is while budge is to move.As an adjective budge is
(obsolete) brisk; stirring; jocund or budge can be (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics.As a noun budge is
a kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.stride
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
- Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is graved, and strides along the liquid field.
- a debtor that not dares to stride a limit
- I mean to stride your steed.
Usage notes
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Etymology 2
See the above verb.Noun
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Derived terms
* bestride * * take something in stride * get into one's stride * strides (qualifier)Anagrams
* * * *budge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bouger.Alternative forms
* budg (obsolete)Verb
(budg)- I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.
- I'll not budge an inch, boy.
Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
- Yet goals in either half from Jordi Gómez and James Perch inspired them and then, in the face of a relentless City onslaught, they simply would not budge , throwing heart, body and soul in the way of a ball which seemed destined for their net on several occasions.
- I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.
- The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.
Derived terms
* budge up * budgerSynonyms
* shiftEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)- They are become so liberal, as to part freely with their own budge -gowns from off their backs.
Adjective
(-)- Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.