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Striking vs Striding - What's the difference?

striking | striding |

As verbs the difference between striking and striding

is that striking is while striding is .

As nouns the difference between striking and striding

is that striking is the act by which something strikes or is struck while striding is the act of one who strides; a long step.

As an adjective striking

is making a strong impression.

striking

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Making a strong impression.
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  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking . In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something strikes or is struck.
  • * 2012 , Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
    • We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?

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    striding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who strides; a long step.
  • * 1804 , Thomas Brown, Poems (page 191)
    • How broad, amid those pines, the torch-flame red / Flings its dark flashes; and those steps, that fall, / Heavy, and slow, no voice amid their call, / Sound, like the giant-stridings of the dead!