Stride vs Stretch - 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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(label) To lengthen by pulling.
(label) To lengthen when pulled.
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(label) To pull tight.
To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
(label) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
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(label) To extend to a limit point
(label) To increase.
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(label) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
An act of stretching.
The ability to lengthen when pulled.
A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
A segment of a journey or route.
(label) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
(label) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
A length of time.
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(label) A term of address for a tall person
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*:“Hey, Stretch ,” he shouted at a tall, spectacled co-worker, “turn the fucking station, will you? You know I can't stand Rush, and it's all they play on this one. If I hear those assholes whine 'Tom Sawyer' one more time, I may go on a fucking killing spree.
As verbs the difference between stride and stretch
is that stride is while stretch is (label) to lengthen by pulling.As a noun stretch is
an act of stretching .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
* 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
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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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stretch
English
Verb
- The inner membrane because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken.
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- a man apt to stretch in his report of facts
- The ship stretched to the eastward.
Noun
(es)- I was right in the middle of a stretch when the phone rang.
- To say crossing the street was brave was quite a stretch.
- That rubber band has quite a bit of stretch.
- It's a bit of a stretch to call Boris Karloff a comedian.
- It was an easy trip except for the last stretch , which took forever.
- He did a 7-year stretch in jail.
- After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever