Stride vs Trot - 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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(archaic, disparaging) An ugly old woman, a hag.“
(chiefly, of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
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* 2008 , Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Exercise Physiology: The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse , Elsevier,
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A gait of a person faster than a walk.
A toddler.
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(obsolete) A young animal.
(dance) A moderately rapid dance.
(mildly disparaging)
(Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
A run of luck or fortune.
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To walk rapidly.
(of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
As a verb stride
is .As a noun trot is
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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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Derived terms
* bestride * * take something in stride * get into one's stride * strides (qualifier)Anagrams
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trot
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(wikipedia trot)Noun
(en noun)Trot”, entry in 2008 , Anatolij Simonovi? Liberman, An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction , page 208.
page 14,
- Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot , pace, and gallop.
page 154,
- The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot'.The slow '''trot''' is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the '''trot''' of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended ' trot .
page 65,
- To assume the correct position for the posting trot', first walk, with the body inclined forward in a posting position. Then put the horse into a slow or sitting '''trot at six miles an hour. ''Do not post.
page 123,
- but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.
- He?s had a good trot , but his luck will end soon.
page 34,
- It was to be a hugely special occasion, for apart from the picture shows at the Majestic, there was usually nothing at all going on in Sandspit to make anyone think they were on a good trot living there.
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- Should he or she be having a bad trot , the exchange rate will be higher than normal.