Stride vs Strut - What's the difference?
stride | strut |
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 swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out.
* Dryden
(originally said of fowl) To stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
To walk proudly or haughtily.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To cause to swell; enlarge; give more importance to.
To protrude; cause to bulge.
(construction) To brace or support by a strut ot struts; hold in place or strengthen by an upright, diagonal, or transverse support.
In intransitive terms the difference between stride and strut
is that stride is to walk with long steps while strut is to walk proudly or haughtily.As an adjective strut is
swelling out; protuberant; bulging.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
* * * *strut
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) , now in Alemannic)Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (dialectal)Verb
(en-verb)- The bellying canvas strutted with the gale.
- He strutted about the yard, thinking himself master of all he surveyed.
- Does he not hold up his head, and strut in his gait?