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Striving vs Striding - What's the difference?

striving | striding |

As verbs the difference between striving and striding

is that striving is present participle of lang=en while striding is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between striving and striding

is that striving is effort; the act of one who strives while striding is the act of one who strides; a long step.

striving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Effort; the act of one who strives.
  • * 2007 , Steve Talbott, Devices of the Soul (page 192)
    • Do we really want all those strivings and contrivings—all those thoughts and assumptions someone has cleverly etched into the hardware and software we are using—to remain invisible?

    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!