different between stride vs dart

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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??t/
• (General American) enPR: därt, IPA^(key): /d??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *dar?þu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *d??- (“to sharpen”); compare Old High German tart (“javelin, dart”), Old English daroþ, dearod (“javelin, spear, dart”), Swedish dart (“dart, dagger”), Icelandic darraður, darr, dör (“dart, spear”).

Noun

dart (plural darts)

1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin
   • 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, 2 Samuel, xviii, 14,

     Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

2. Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
3. (sometimes figuratively) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
   • 1830, Hannah More, Sensibility, The Works of Hannah More, Volume 1, page 38,

     The artful inquiry, whose venom?d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.

4. A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
5. (military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
   • 1988, Michigan Aviation (volumes 21-25, page 62)

     Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.

6. (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
   • 1947, Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, 1970, page 79,

     Trucking?s my dart too.

7. A sudden or fast movement.
8. (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
9. A fish, the dace.
10. (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
    • 2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse

      The Tigers will also face Jesse Hogan, still smarting from missing a couple of games but not life inside the AFL bubble, where you can’t even light up a dart at a music festival without someone filming it and sending it to the six o’clock news.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English darten, from the noun (see above).

Verb

dart (third-person singular simple present darts, present participle darting, simple past and past participle darted)

1. (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
2. (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot

   The sun darts forth his beams.
3. (transitive) To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart

4. (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly

   The flying man darted eastward.

5. (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along

Derived terms

• dartle
• darter

Translations

References

• dart in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• 'tard, -tard, ADRT, Art.D., DTRA, drat, tard, trad

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?rt/
• Hyphenation: dart
• Rhymes: -?rt

Noun

dart m (plural darts, diminutive dartje n)

1. dart

   Synonym: dartpijl

Derived terms

• darten
• dartpijl

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French dart, dard, from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *dar?þu, from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz.

Alternative forms

• darte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dart/

Noun

dart (plural dartes)

1. A hand-thrown spear or missile; a javelin.
2. (figuratively) Assailing; a hostile act.

Descendants

• English: dart
  • ? Dutch: dart
• Scots: dart, dairt; dard

References

• “dart, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-29.

Etymology 2

Formed from the noun.

Verb

dart

1. Alternative form of darten

Middle French

Alternative forms

• dard, dar

Etymology

Old French, see below

Noun

dart m (plural dars)

1. weapon similar to a javelin

Descendants

• French: dard
  • ? Italian: dardo

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dart.

Noun

dart m (definite singular darten, indefinite plural darter, definite plural dartene)

1. a throwing dart

References

• “dart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dart.

Noun

dart m (definite singular darten, indefinite plural dartar, definite plural dartane)

1. a throwing dart

References

• “dart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• dard, dar

Etymology

From Medieval Latin dardus (“spear”).

Noun

dart m (oblique plural darz or dartz, nominative singular darz or dartz, nominative plural dart)

1. spear, javelin

Descendants

• Middle French: dart, dard, dar
  • French: dard
    • ? Italian: dardo
• Walloon: darde
• ? Middle English: dart, darte
  • English: dart
    • ? Dutch: dart
  • Scots: dart, dairt; dard

Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *ðaðut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?atus, from Proto-Austronesian *?atus.

Numeral

dart

1. hundred

Pennsylvania German

Alternative forms

• dort
• datt

Etymology

Compare German dort, da.

Adverb

dart

1. there

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse darr, from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz.

Noun

dart c

1. darts (the game where the competitors throw small arrows against a circular target)
2. (rare) dart (one of the small arrows in the game of darts)

Synonyms

• pilkastning (1)
• pil (2)