different between plod vs stride

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pl?d/
• Rhymes: -?d, -??d

Etymology 1

From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plod (“a puddle”). Compare Dutch plodden, Dutch plodderen and Danish pladder (“mire”).

Noun

plod (uncountable)

1. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.

   We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.

Verb

plod (third-person singular simple present plods, present participle plodding, simple past and past participle plodded)

1. (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 50,^[1]

     The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,

     Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island Part One, Chapter 1

     I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;

2. (transitive) To trudge over or through.
   • 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, p. 127,^[2]

     Quest[ion]. Where was Ioseph?

     Answ[er]. It may be, he was playing the Carpenter abrode for all their three livings, but sure it is, he was not idlely plodding the streetes, much lesse tipling in the Taverne with our idle swingers.

   • 1799, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451,^[3]

     […] Speed thou to Lombard-street,

     Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet,

     'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, London: The Richards Press, XLVI, pp. 69-70,^[4]

     Break no rosemary, bright with rime

     And sparkling to the cruel clime;

     Nor plod the winter land to look

     For willows in the icy brook

     To cast them leafless round him […]

3. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
   • 1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,^[5]

     Poore plodding schoolemen, they are farre too low,

     which by probations, rules and axiom’s goe,

     He must be still familiar with the skyes,

     which notes the reuolutions of thine eyes;

Derived terms

• plodder
• plodding

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:plod.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”).

Noun

plod (plural plods)

1. (obsolete) A puddle.

Etymology 3

From PC Plod.

Noun

plod (usually uncountable, plural plods)

1. (Britain, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
2. (Britain, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

Synonyms

• (the police): See Thesaurus:police
• (police officer): See Thesaurus:police officer

Translations

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plot/

Noun

plod m

1. fruit
2. fetus

Declension

Derived terms

• oplodí n

See also

• embryo
• zárodek
• ovoce

Further reading

• plod in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• plod in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Romanian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plod?

Noun

plod n (plural plozi)

1. (derogatory) small child
2. (colloquial) fetus

Declension

Further reading

• plod in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plô?d/

Noun

pl?d m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. fruit (part of plant)

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pló?t/

Noun

pl??d m inan

1. fruit (part of plant)

Inflection

Derived terms

• pl??den

Further reading

• “plod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: str?d, IPA^(key): /st?a?d/

Etymology 1

From Middle English striden, from Old English str?dan (“to get by force, pillage, rob; stride”), from Proto-Germanic *str?dan?. Cognate with Low German striden (“to fight, to stride”), Dutch strijden (“to fight”), German streiten (“to fight, to quarrel”).

Verb

stride (third-person singular simple present strides, present participle striding, simple past strode, past participle stridden or strode or strid)

1. (intransitive) To walk with long steps.

   • Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field.

2. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
3. To pass over at a step; to step over.
4. To straddle; to bestride.

Usage notes

• The past participle of stride is extremely rare and mostly obsolete. Many people have trouble producing a form that feels natural.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English stride, stryde, from Old English stride (“a stride, pace”), from the verb (see above). Doublet of strid.

Noun

stride (countable and uncountable, plural strides)

1. (countable) A long step in walking.
2. (countable) The distance covered by a long step.
3. (countable, 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 […]

4. (uncountable, music) 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

Translations

References

Anagrams

• direst, disert, dister, driest, drites, redist, ridest

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse stríða, from Proto-Germanic *str?dan?.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [?sd??i?ð?s]

Verb

stride (imperative strid, present strider, past stred, past participle stridt, present participle stridende, present passive strides, past passive stredes, past participle passive stredes)

1. to fight, struggle
2. (passive) to dispute, quarrel, fight

References

• “stride” in Den Danske Ordbog

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Verb

stride

1. third-person singular present indicative of stridere

Anagrams

• destri

Latin

Verb

str?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of str?d?

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• stri

Etymology

From Old Norse stríða, and the adjective stri.

Verb

stride (imperative strid, present tense strider, passive strides, simple past stred or strei or stridde, past participle stridd, present participle stridende)

1. to battle, fight, struggle
2. to conflict (with)

References

• “stride” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

stride

1. definite singular of strid
2. plural of strid

Swedish

Adjective

stride

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of strid.

Anagrams

• Estrid, tiders