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roam
English
Etymology
From Middle English romen, from Old English r?mian, from Proto-Germanic *raim?n? (“to wander”), from *raim- (“to move, raise”), from *h?reyH- (“to move, lift, flow”). Akin to Old English ?r?man (“to arise, stand up, lift up”), Old High German r?m?n (“to aim”) ( > archaic German rahmen (“to strive”)), Middle Dutch rammen (“to night-wander, to copulate”), rammelen (“to wander about, ramble”). More at ramble.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?m, IPA(key): /???m/
- (General American) enPR: r?m, IPA(key): /?o?m/
- Homophones: Rome
- Rhymes: -??m
Verb
roam (third-person singular simple present roams, present participle roaming, simple past and past participle roamed)
- (intransitive) To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille (in The Guardian, 26 November 2013)[1]
- Wilshere had started as a left-footed right-winger, coming in off the flank, but he and Özil both had the licence to roam. Tomas Rosicky was not tied down to one spot either and, with Ramsey breaking forward as well as Olivier Giroud's considerable presence, Marseille were overwhelmed from the moment Bacary Sagna's first touch of the night sent Wilshere running clear.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille (in The Guardian, 26 November 2013)[1]
- (intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
- (transitive, computing, telecommunications) To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.
- 2013, Scott Isaacs, Kyle Burns, Beginning Windows Store Application Development
- At first, it seemed counterintuitive to me to roam settings between computers, but my problem at the time was that every example I was considering was a setting that only made sense for a single computer.
- 2013, Scott Isaacs, Kyle Burns, Beginning Windows Store Application Development
- (transitive) To range or wander over.
Synonyms
- (wander freely): err, shrithe, wander
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Amor, Mora, Omar, Oram, Roma, moar, mora, roma
Portuguese
Verb
roam
- third-person plural present subjunctive of roer
- third-person plural imperative of roer
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stride
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)
- (intransitive) To walk with long steps.
- Mars in the middle of the shining shield / Is grav'd, and strides along the liquid field.
- To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
- To pass over at a step; to step over.
- 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)
- (countable) A long step in walking.
- (countable) The distance covered by a long step.
- (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 […]
- 2007, Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Beautiful Code
- (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)
- to fight, struggle
- (passive) to dispute, quarrel, fight
References
- “stride” in Den Danske Ordbog
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ide
Verb
stride
- third-person singular present indicative of stridere
Anagrams
- destri
Latin
Verb
str?de
- 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)
- to battle, fight, struggle
- to conflict (with)
References
- “stride” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
stride
- definite singular of strid
- plural of strid
Swedish
Adjective
stride
- absolute definite natural masculine form of strid.
Anagrams
- Estrid, tiders
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