different between process vs stride

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French procés (“journey”), from Latin pr?cessus, from pr?c?d?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p???s?s/
• (General American) enPR: pr??s?s, IPA^(key): /?p??s?s/
• (Canada, rarely US) enPR: pr??s?s, IPA^(key): /?p?o?s?s/
• Hyphenation: pro?cess

Noun

process (plural processes)

1. A series of events which produce a result (the product).
2. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
   • 1960, Mack Tyner, Process Engineering Calculations: Material and Energy Balances – Ordinarily a process plant will use a steam boiler to supply its process heat requirements and to drive a steam-turbine generator.
   • 1987, J. R. Richards, Principles of control system design in Modelling and control of fermentation processes – The words plant or process infer generally any dynamic system, be it primarily mechanical, electrical, or chemical process in nature, and may extend also to include social or economic systems.
3. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
4. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
5. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
   • 1711, John Spotiswood, The Form of Process, 39:

     But if either at Calling by the Clerk, after the Session Bell, or before the Ordinary by the Roll, an Advocat compears, and craves to be Marked for the Defender, and to see the Process; The Clerk in the first Case, and the Judge in the second, will allow him to see it

6. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
7. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
8. (computing) An executable task or program.
9. The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• due-process
• interprocess

Related terms

Related terms

• proceed
• procedure

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (purosesu)

Translations

Verb

process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)

1. (transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.
2. (transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.

4. (transitive, photography, film) To develop photographic film.
5. (transitive, law) To take legal proceedings against.
   • 1845, Report from Her Majesty's Commissioners of inquiry into the state of the law and practice in respect to the occupation of land in Ireland

     When I saw that he would not let me alone, I processed him for £12. My mother was with his brother John, and he allowed her six guineas for clothes; and if she did not want the money, he would allow it to me in the rent, and I made him pay that when he would not leave me alone.

Derived terms

• processed
• processor

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from procession.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: pr?-s?s?, IPA^(key): /p???s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s
• Hyphenation: pro?cess

Verb

process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)

1. To walk in a procession

Translations

Anagrams

• Cospers, Crespos, corpses, scopers

Latvian

Etymology

From Latin pr?cessus (“progression, progress, process”), perfect passive participle of pr?c?d? (“I advance, proceed”), from pr?- +? c?d? (“I go, move, proceed”).

Noun

process m (1st declension)

1. process

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin processus (“progression, progress, process”), perfect passive participle of pr?c?d? (“I advance, proceed”), from pr?- +? c?d? (“I go, move, proceed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr??s?s/

Noun

process c

1. process

Declension

Derived terms

• processa

Related terms

• processuell

References

• process in Svensk ordbok (SO)

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