Stride vs Stray - 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.
English irregular verbs
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Any domestic animal that has an enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.
(figuratively) One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically.
The act of wandering or going astray.
(historical) An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e. "the stray"
To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
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To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
(figurative) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
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To cause to stray.
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Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep.
In the wrong place; misplaced.
As verbs the difference between stride and stray
is that stride is while stray is to wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.As a noun stray is
any domestic animal that has an enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.As an adjective stray is
having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep.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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- 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
Derived terms
* bestride * * take something in stride * get into one's stride * strides (qualifier)Anagrams
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stray
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Thames among the wanton valleys strays .
Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- It was a derby that left Manchester United a long way back in Manchester City’s wing-mirrors and, in the worst moments, straying dangerously close to being their own worst enemy.
- Hath not else his eye / Strayed his affection in unlawful love,
Synonyms
* deviateAdjective
(-)- a stray comma
