Strides vs Stridest - What's the difference?
strides | stridest |
(plurale tantum, UK, Australia) Trousers.
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(stride)
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(archaic) (stride)
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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As verbs the difference between strides and stridest
is that strides is (stride) while stridest is (archaic) (stride).As a noun strides
is .strides
English
Noun
(head)page 97,
- So he gave him one boot. I said, ‘One boot?s no bloody good! Give him two boot[s]!’ So he chucks over another boot, and a pair of strides .
page 173,
- He went upstairs and changed into a fresh pair of strides , nipped into the bathroom and gave his hands and face a quick rinse and threw on a clean pullover.
page 211,
- His mother used to have to buy two pair of strides for him, cut the legs off one and sew them onto the other.
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- I thought of Des and May?s daughters, then of Gleaves, and resolved to borrow a pair of strides from Cliff, to keep the tie-wearing penile-challenged toss-bag oaf ma case.
Verb
(head)stridest
English
Verb
(head)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
(en noun)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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- 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