Stride vs Whisk - What's the difference?

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Stride is a related term of whisk.

As verbs the difference between stride and whisk

is that stride is while whisk is to move something with quick light sweeping motions.

As a noun whisk is

a quick, light sweeping motion or whisk can be (obsolete) the card game whist.

stride

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

To walk with long steps.

* Dryden

Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is graved, and strides along the liquid field.

To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.

To pass over at a step; to step over.

* Shakespeare

a debtor that not dares to stride a limit

To straddle; to bestride.

* Shakespeare

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

(en noun)

A long step.

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, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride .}}

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, year=2011 , date=November 10 , author=Jeremy Wilson , title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , work=Telegraph citation , page= , passage=An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight. }}

(computing) The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.

* 2007 , Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful code

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

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.

Derived terms

* bestride * * take something in stride * get into one's stride * strides (qualifier)

Anagrams

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References

English irregular verbs ----

whisk

English

Etymology 1

(etyl), from (etyl) visk According to] eng. (vist laant fra nord. ) whisk, the English (certainly borrowed from Old Norse) whisk[http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?action=search&word=whisk&resource=Webster's&quicksearch=on Etymology in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, from (etyl) . Cognate with Danish (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A quick, light sweeping motion.

With a quick whisk , she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.

A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).

He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.

A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.

Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving.

A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.

'' I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.

A plane used by coopers for evening chines.

A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.

* Samuel Pepys

My wife in her new lace whisk .

(archaic) An impertinent fellow.

(Halliwell)

Verb

(en verb)

To move something with quick light sweeping motions.

* J. Fletcher

He that walks in gray, whisking his riding rod.

In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.

To move something rapidly and with no warning.

* Walpole

I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.

To move lightly and nimbly.

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