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Strifes vs Strides - What's the difference?

strifes | strides |

As nouns the difference between strifes and strides

is that strifes is while strides is .

As a verb strides is

(stride).

strifes

English

Noun

(head)
  • * 1916 , James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
    • His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.

    Anagrams

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    strides

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (plurale tantum, UK, Australia) Trousers.
  • * 2004 , Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga , Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press, 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 .
  • * 2006 , Smiley Brymer, The Universal Naked Linesman , AuthorHouse, 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.
  • * 2007 , Antony Agar, Queensland Ringer , 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.
  • * 1994 , , 2008, unnumbered page,
    • 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)
  • (stride)
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